Meet Aurora: it marks, it manages, it teaches

Aurora · Shown with an example week

MEET AURORA

What if your week ran itself?

A one-minute story of Aurora, the AI inside EduMark. It marks, manages and teaches, and people approve what matters. It plays by itself. No sound.

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Aurora · EduMark’s AI

Meet Aurora. It marks. It manages. It teaches.

Aurora is the AI built into EduMark. It drafts marks and feedback for every submission, runs the day-to-day of the platform alongside your team, and gives every learner a patient tutor — while people approve what matters.

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  • Marking · your criteria loadedonline
  • Platform actions · ask firstonline
  • Learner support · tutor readyonline
  • Course building · drafts onlyonline
  • Human approvalenforced
  • What would you like to do?
  • Marking
  • Scheduling
  • Announcements
  • Tutoring
  • Courses
  • Tasks
One AI, connected across EduMark
New · Early access

Now Aurora takes on whole jobs.

Hand Aurora a job in the chat and it keeps going until it’s done, even across days. Or describe a screen EduMark doesn’t have yet, and Aurora builds it.

Early access

Aurora agents

Agents with names, working like members of your team. They enrol, chase, mark, book and report back in the same chat, and stop for your yes before anything that matters.

Meet the agents Views available nowFull apps · Early access

Aurora apps

Describe the view you need and Aurora builds it from your real numbers, showing only what you’re allowed to see. Change it by asking. Learners already make flashcards, games and interactive apps from their courses.

See Aurora apps
Four systems · one intelligence

The work around the teaching, handled.

Aurora knows your EduMark: your courses, cohorts, deadlines and marking guides. It uses that to do real work across the platform, with you in charge of every decision that counts.

01

Marks

You approve

Aurora reads every submission against your marking guide and drafts a mark and feedback for each answer, showing the evidence it used. Your markers review, edit and approve.

  • Every answer, drafted. Objective questions scored exactly; written answers judged criterion by criterion.
  • Needs you, never zero. Anything it can’t read is flagged for a person, not given an automatic zero.
  • Work from outside EduMark. Upload completed work and Aurora extracts the questions and answers for you to confirm.
  • Find the right sample. Describe what you need in your own words for second marking and moderation.
02

Manages

Asks first

Ask in plain English, by text or voice. Aurora finds what you need across courses, cohorts and deadlines, then does the work — and asks before anything that matters.

  • Schedules. Books, moves and cancels live sessions, finds one-to-one times and fills in registers.
  • Announces. Drafts announcements, newsletters, reminders and replies for you to send.
  • Acts. Publishes assignments, finalises grades and invites learners when you confirm.
  • Keeps going. Longer tasks run in the background and tell you when they’re done.
03

Teaches

Never does assessed work

Every learner gets a patient study partner that works from their own course — explaining, questioning and helping them practise until it sticks.

  • Explains. Simply, with another example, as a summary, or as a quick quiz.
  • Practises. Fresh questions with hints that don’t give the answer away — even from a photo of handwritten working.
  • Studies. Flashcards, concept maps, teach-it-back, games and audio lessons. In beta.
  • Steps back. Switched off in protected assessments, and never writes work that will be marked.
04

Builds

You publish

Give Aurora a brief, a specification or your existing documents. It builds a draft course in visible stages and turns your papers into ready-to-check questions.

  • Courses from a brief. Links, files, images and scanned pages become an unpublished draft course.
  • Questions from documents. Upload an assessment and Aurora turns it into EduMark questions for you to check.
  • Better words, in place. Clearer, shorter, more detailed or rewritten for learners, on any field.
  • Every change undoable. Draft edits come with an undo receipt. Nothing goes live until you publish.
Just ask

Say what you need. Aurora does the rest.

Type or talk to Aurora from any page. It works out the steps, does them with the tools your role allows, and stops for your yes before anything that matters.

aurora · side panelIllustration

Who hasn’t submitted Unit 5 yet? Send them a reminder.

Checking Unit 5 across your cohorts…

  1. Found Unit 5 in Level 3 Business Administration (done)assignments
  2. Checked who hasn’t submitted (done)6 learners
  3. Checked the deadline (done)Fri 17:00
  4. Drafted a friendly reminder (done)message draft
Send a reminder to 6 learnersWaiting for you
  • Due Friday at 17:00, with a link to the brief
  • Sent only to learners with no submission
Ask before actions is on: nothing is sent until you approve.
Aurora cards

Answers you can act on. Right where you asked.

Ask for something and Aurora replies with a card: the draft, the details and the buttons to finish the job. Check it, change it and approve it without leaving the conversation.

ReminderSending in 5s

Remind 6 learners about Unit 5

  • Amira K
  • Jordan M
  • Sam T
  • Priya S
  • Tom W
  • Ben A
  • Leah O · has an extension

Hi first name, a quick reminder that Unit 5 is due on Friday at 17:00. The brief and your draft are in the course if you need them.

Full access is on. Stop it, or send it now.
ExtensionCancelled

Extension for Jordan M · Unit 5

Cancelled. Nothing was changed.

Schedule a sessionWaiting for you

Unit 5 revision

When
Tuesday, 14:00–15:00
Who
Level 3 Business Administration · 21 learners
Where
Microsoft Teams
Reminders
1 day and 1 hour before
No clashes in learners’ timetables
ChartReads only

Submissions this week

RegisterPre-filled

Unit 5 revision · Tuesday

  • Amira KJoined
  • Jordan MLate
  • Leah OAbsent
  • Sam TExcused
18 of 21 joined through EduMark
AnnouncementDone

Published to Level 3 Business Administration

Pinned until Friday · 21 learners

Illustration with synthetic data. Card names, states and buttons match EduMark.
  • Shows

    Just shows

    Snapshots, charts, previews and your day. Nothing changes until you ask for more.

  • One click

    One click from done

    Messages, reminders and session changes wait for your click. With Full access they run after a five-second countdown you can stop, and a spoken “send it” works too.

  • Always a tap

    A tap, every time

    Publishing, releasing results, adding learners and inbox replies need a tap even with Full access, and never go by voice.

31 cards across EduMark, all following the same rules for review and approval.

Communication
  • Message
  • Reminder
  • Announcement
  • Inbox catch-up
Scheduling
  • Schedule a session
  • Change a session
  • One-to-one
  • Block time
  • My day
  • Register
People
  • Learner snapshot
  • Needs attention
  • Cohort
  • Add learners
  • Pastoral note
Assignments and marking
  • Assignment status
  • Extension
  • Publish assignment
  • Practice quiz
  • What to mark next
  • Share marking
  • Integrity summary
  • Moderation sample
  • Release results
Insight and files
  • Preview
  • Image
  • Chart
  • Export
  • Routine
For learners
  • Explain and quiz
  • My feedback
Marking

Every submission marked. Every result approved.

Aurora does the reading, scoring and first-draft feedback. Your markers do what only they can: check, adjust and sign off. A suggestion never releases a result.

  1. Learner

    Submitted

    Typed answers, uploads, or completed work from outside EduMark.

  2. Aurora

    Read

    Your marking guide, the criteria and every answer.

  3. Aurora

    Scored

    Objective questions exactly. Written answers criterion by criterion.

  4. Aurora

    Drafted

    A proposed mark and feedback, with the evidence used.

  5. Your marker

    Approved

    Reviewed, edited and approved, question by question.

  6. EduMark

    Released

    Feedback reaches the learner, only after approval.

Evidence on every mark

Each proposal shows the criteria and the evidence behind it, so a marker can check it rather than redo it.

Needs you, never zero

Unreadable or unclear answers are flagged “needs you” for a person. Aurora never fills the gap with a zero.

Your call, per assignment

Choose AI-assisted or human-only marking for each assignment, with an organisation default set by your administrators.

Agreement you can see

Track how often markers keep Aurora’s proposals, so trust is earned in the open.

Agentic by design

It doesn’t just answer. It gets things done.

Aurora works with the same tools and permissions as the person using it — scheduling, messaging, publishing and building across EduMark.

  • Schedule

    Live sessions

    Book, reschedule or cancel live sessions and change the meeting provider.

    Asks first
  • Automate

    Scheduled tasks

    Daily, weekday, weekly or monthly reports, checks and prepared drafts, such as a weekly community newsletter.

    Drafts wait for you
  • Announce

    Announcements & messages

    Draft announcements, reminders and inbox replies, and message the right learners.

    Asks first
  • Publish

    Assignments & grades

    Publish assignments and finalise grades when you say so.

    Asks first
  • Invite

    Learners

    Invite learners and add them where they belong.

    Asks first
  • Build

    Courses & assessments

    Create draft courses, restructure modules and edit questions.

    Undoable
  • Operate

    Inside the page

    Click, fill, select and navigate while you watch, with Stop and Undo on screen. Passwords are always off limits.

    You watch
  • Answer

    Your organisation

    What’s due, who’s behind, what needs attention — answered from your data, with sources.

    Reads only
  • Analyse

    Custom views

    Describe a view and Aurora builds it from governed metrics, with no learner records sent to the model.

    Reads only
  • Read

    Your files

    Spreadsheets, Word documents, PDFs and text — up to five files in a message.

    Reads only
  • Migrate

    Your old platform

    Works through Moodle, Canvas, Google Classroom and more to bring your material across, read-only. It never sees your password.

    Reads only
  • Continue

    Long tasks

    Keeps working in the background, then lets you know when it’s finished or needs you.

    Notifies you

Aurora acts, you decide. “Ask before actions” is the default: anything that schedules, sends, publishes or finalises waits for a confirmation. People who want Aurora to move faster can turn on Full access, which needs explicit consent and switches itself off if their permissions change. Submitting an assessment on a learner’s behalf is always blocked.

Wherever you work

Always one click away. Never in the way.

Aurora rests in the corner of every page and opens however suits the job: beside your work, full screen, side by side with the page, or by voice.

  • Resting orb

    Waits in the corner of every page, showing progress and a badge when something finishes or needs you.

  • Side panel

    Docks beside your work, and becomes a bottom sheet on a phone.

  • Full screen

    An immersive view for longer conversations and bigger jobs.

  • Split workspace

    The page you’re on sits beside Aurora, so you can watch it work.

  • Voice

    Talk it through with live captions, and cards appear under the conversation. Pro.

  • Page tips

    One short tip for the page you’re on, never while you’re typing. Switch them off any time.

Aurora books sessions on EduMark Live, Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or in person.

For learners

A tutor that never runs out of patience.

Learners get help in the moment, on the lesson in front of them — explained their way, practised until it sticks, and always grounded in their own course.

  • Lesson help

    Explain it simply, give another example, quiz me or summarise — on the lesson they’re reading.

  • Practice that coaches

    Fresh questions, hints that don’t give the answer away, and feedback learners can share with their tutor.

  • Study, their way

    Flashcards, quizzes, concept maps, teach-it-back, fill-the-gaps, games and audio lessons. In beta.

  • Aurora Interactive

    Small hands-on apps built from a lesson or a practice question. In beta.

AuroraLesson 4 · Risk assessment
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I don’t get the hierarchy of control. Can you explain it simply?

Think of it as a ladder. Start at the top: can you remove the hazard altogether? If not, swap it for something safer, then separate people from it, then change how the work is done — and only then reach for PPE.From this lesson · section 2

Quiz me on it.

Question 1 of 3: a workshop swaps a solvent-based cleaner for a water-based one. Which rung is that?Hint available · practice, not assessed

You stay in command

It can do the work. You stay in control.

Aurora is powerful because it is careful. These guarantees are built into how it works, not bolted on.

Asks before it acts

Scheduling, sending, publishing and grading wait for a yes. Full access is opt-in, gives you five seconds to stop a send, and resets if your permissions change.

Only what you can see

Aurora works with exactly what your account can already access, and answers from your data with sources you can check.

Stop and undo

Draft edits come with an undo receipt. When Aurora works in the page, Stop and Undo stay on screen.

Every action recorded

Actions are audited, and a conversation locks if someone’s permissions change part-way through.

Fair to assessment

Aurora won’t write assessed work, is switched off in protected assessments, and only helps in an assessment its author allows.

Administrators decide

Turn Aurora on or off per person. Choose AI-assisted or human-only marking per assignment.

Questions about Aurora

Does Aurora release marks on its own?

No. Aurora drafts a mark and feedback for each answer and shows the evidence it used. A marker reviews, edits and approves every question before anything is released to a learner.

Can Aurora take actions without asking?

Not by default. With “Ask before actions”, anything that schedules, sends, publishes or changes a grade waits for your confirmation. Draft course and assessment edits happen straight away with an undo. People can choose Full access, which needs explicit consent and resets if their permissions change: messages and session changes then run after a five-second countdown you can stop, while publishing, releasing results and adding learners still need a tap every time.

What are Aurora cards?

When you ask Aurora to do something, it replies with a card: the draft, the details and the buttons to finish the job. You can edit it, approve it or cancel it in the conversation. Finished cards keep a receipt, with Undo where the change can be reversed.

What can Aurora see?

Only what the person using it can already see in EduMark. Answers come from your organisation’s data with sources, and text inside pages and files is treated as untrusted information rather than as instructions.

Can learners use Aurora to do their assessments?

No. Aurora won’t write work that will be marked, it’s switched off during protected assessments, and it only helps inside an assessment when the author has allowed it.

Can I talk to Aurora?

Yes. Type in the side panel or full-screen view, or have a spoken conversation. Aurora also appears in place, with “Ask Aurora” and writing help inside the features you already use.

Does Aurora detect plagiarism or AI writing?

That’s EduMark Integrity, which is built into marking. Aurora can tell you the status of an integrity check, but it never treats similarity as proof of misconduct.

Which plan do we need for Aurora?

Any plan, including Free. Aurora and AI marking use EduMark Credits: each message, action and minute of voice has a fixed credit cost, and Plus and Pro add a yearly pool of credits. Your workspace’s available credits and budgets determine access, and administrators choose who can use each capability. See pricing for the current rates.

Put Aurora to work in your organisation.

Start on Free, no card needed. Aurora and AI marking use EduMark Credits on every plan; Plus and Pro add a yearly pool of credits. See the price for your sector and learner count.

Start free See Plus and Pro pricing

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