Currently the process of marking and providing feedback to students at university is a fractured process resulting in needless overhead and poor feedback to students. Team’s C proposed system aims to improve the current system by integrating the marking process in one tool that encompasses submission of work, annotation of submissions and the publishing of marks. The aim of the product is to streamline the marking process, allowing markers to focus on what is really important and that is providing important and helpful feedback to students to facilitate the learning process.

To allow the product to be compatible with proprietary and unique systems present at universities across the world, the team has designed a highly extendable system, where the application can easily be interfaced with a range of systems, by simply defining plug-in modules. Such extendibility means the application can be used at any university, and provides a strong base to allow different users to customize the application to achieve the necessary results.

The team’s understanding is that the product is unique to Australia, and globally one of very few such applications. Thus the potential of uptake within other universities is exceptionally high, especially given that Australia includes over 40 universities and there are more than 600,000 students in Australia and New Zealand not including TAFE institutions or high schools.