Assessment for university courses

Mark one question across the whole cohort.

Penciil splits every submission into question responses, so your marking team works the same question in parallel against one rubric. Paper exams or online submissions — the marks stay consistent either way, and results go out only when you release them.

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Questions

Q1Define: invariant

Q2Short proof

Q3Trace the loop412

Q4Code: sumTo(n)0

Q5Draw the call stack0

Q6Essay: correctness0

Your share

Q3 · 200 responses

Response 413of 600Anonymous←→

Q3 — trace the loop for n = 4

i = 1, sum = 0

pass 1 i = 1 → sum = 1

pass 2 i = 2 → sum = 3

pass 3 i = 3 → sum = 6

so total = 6

(does i = 4 run?)

b) the loop body runs n − 1 times

so for n = 4 that is 3 passes

i < n stops at 3 —
the last term is missed

ABA. Bello is marking response 414Locked

RubricQ3 · 6 marks

1States i and sum at entry+2

2Loop condition correct+3

3Off-by-one in final term−1

4Fully correct trace+6

Comment library

Check your final iterationGood trace layoutState the invariant

Score4/ 6Auto-saved

Next ungraded↵

one key per criterion — press it
and it moves to the next script

How marking works

Four steps between a sealed script and a released mark.

The same path whether the exam was written on paper in a hall or submitted online at midnight.

1Split by questionEvery submission is broken into question responses the moment it arrives, so the unit of work is a question, not a script.2Share out the markingGive each grader a question and a share of it. A response someone has open is locked, so no two people mark the same answer.3Marks roll upQuestion marks assemble into each student's result, with every mark still attached to the rubric line that produced it.4Release when readyStudents see nothing until the course releases it — and you choose whether that includes the rubric, the comments and the script.

Two ways to assess

Paper and online end up in the same queue.

A department does not get to pick one. Penciil runs both inside a single course, and a grader cannot tell from the queue which is which.

Administered

Written in a hall, on paper

Build the paper from a PDF template and tag each question's region once. Scan the booklets back in and upload the batch; pages match to students and split into the same question responses everything else produces.

PDF templates with tagged question regions
Bulk scan upload, matched to your roster

Assigned

Submitted online, at midnight

Exams, quizzes, labs and projects students complete in Penciil. Typed answers, uploaded images and PDFs, and multiple choice — mixed inside one assessment where the work calls for it.

Text, file and multiple-choice questions
One course hub for templates and rosters

Course teams

Four roles, and none of them steps on another.

A large course is run by a team that changes every semester. Penciil gives each person exactly the course they are part of, and exactly the work that is theirs.

Instructors set the shape

Owners and instructors build the assessment, write the rubric, decide who marks what, and hold the release.

Graders mark their share

A TA opens their assigned question and works down the queue. They never see a response that is not theirs, and never collide with a colleague on one.

Students submit and wait

One place to submit, and one place results appear — when the course puts them there, not a moment earlier.

Fitting in

It has to survive your institution, not just your course.

Launches from your LMS

Penciil is a standard LTI 1.3 tool. Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard or any other certified platform can drop a student straight into the mapped Penciil course.

LTI 1.3 · platform-neutral

Your roster stays yours

Enter people directly or import a CSV. Nothing is read out of your student records system, and nothing is written back without you doing it.

Direct entry or CSV import

Hosted, or on your own servers

We run it for you by default. Where procurement, data residency or policy requires it, Penciil is installed on infrastructure your institution controls.

One installation per institution

Bring us your worstmarking week

Tell us the course — how many students, how many graders, paper or online — and we will show you that exact week running in Penciil.

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One installation per institution. Hosted by us, or on your own servers.