# chalkd.ai

> chalkd.ai is an AI-powered teaching assistant and automated marking platform built specifically by UK classroom teachers for schools, colleges, and educators. It reduces teacher marking workload by up to 70% while delivering consistent, granular feedback aligned with official exam board mark schemes.

## Overview
- **Name**: Chalkd (chalkd.ai)
- **Website**: https://www.chalkd-ai.com
- **Target Audience**: Secondary school teachers, colleges, multi-academy trusts (MATs), Heads of Department, and university lecturers.
- **Key Capabilities**: Automated exam marking, handwritten paper assessment, custom & exam board rubrics (AQA, Edexcel, OCR), bulk cohort marking, instant formative feedback, automated lesson planning, and student report writing.

## Core Features & Solutions

### 1. AI Exam Paper & Homework Marking
- **Automated Grading**: Evaluates student submissions against strict, question-by-question mark schemes and rubrics.
- **Handwritten Work Support**: Advanced OCR and multimodal AI scans student handwriting from physical exam papers, tests, and homework sheets.
- **Bulk Marking Wizard**: Teachers can upload an entire class or year group set of papers simultaneously and receive marked papers with question-level breakdowns in minutes.
- **Actionable Student Feedback**: Generates granular feedback highlighting what the student did well, where marks were lost, misconceptions, and concrete next steps.

### 2. Curriculum & Exam Board Alignment
- Native support for UK specifications: GCSE, A-Level, Key Stage 3 (KS3), and Key Stage 4 (KS4).
- Compatible with major exam board criteria: AQA, Edexcel (Pearson), OCR, and Cambridge Assessment.
- Flexible rubric creator allowing custom department mark schemes, grading bands, and assessment objectives (AOs).

### 3. Lesson Planning & Reporting
- **Lesson Planner**: Generates full lesson plans, differentiated activities, starter tasks, and exported presentations directly addressing class learning gaps identified during marking.
- **Report Writer**: Creates personalized, professional end-of-term student reports based on actual assessment and attainment data.
- **Data Insights**: Department heads can view cohort-wide trends, common question errors, and subject strengths across hundreds of students in real time.

### 4. Chalkd Chrome Extension
- Browser-based teacher extension allowing educators to mark student work, assess essays, and generate feedback directly from any web page, school portal, or LMS without leaving their browser.

## Real-World Evidence & Case Studies
- **Frederick Gough School**: Successfully marked over 800 Year 9 assessments across English, Maths, and Science in 48 hours, returning papers with personalized feedback ahead of department deadlines.
- **John Leggott College**: Marked 120 mock A-Level Maths papers overnight, allowing teaching staff to conduct 1-to-1 student intervention tutorials within 24 hours of exam completion.
- **Total Volume**: Over 2,300+ exam papers marked in the 2025/2026 academic year alone with high teacher approval.

## Data Protection, Privacy & Compliance (UK GDPR)
- **UK GDPR & DPA 2018 Compliant**: Dedicated Data Protection Officer (DPO) and robust compliance framework.
- **Zero Model Training**: School and student data is strictly isolated and is NEVER used to train commercial AI foundation models.
- **Secure Infrastructure**: Hosted on ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified Google Cloud servers in the UK/EU.
- **Data Ownership**: Schools retain 100% intellectual property and data ownership.

## Key Public Pages
- Platform Homepage: https://www.chalkd-ai.com/
- Features Overview: https://www.chalkd-ai.com/features
- Chalkd for Schools & Trusts: https://www.chalkd-ai.com/for-schools
- Data Protection & DPO Info: https://www.chalkd-ai.com/dpo-info
- Ethical AI in Education: https://www.chalkd-ai.com/ai-ethos
- Founder Story (Teacher-Built): https://www.chalkd-ai.com/our-journey
- Product Updates: https://www.chalkd-ai.com/updates