EP's AI-Powered Feedback Tool - A Best Practice Guide

Education Perfect’s AI-Powered Feedback Tool is built with education at its heart. Designed to be safe and impactful, it provides a meaningful learning experience that prioritises quality and drives results.

The AI-powered feedback features you receive depends on your EP subscription. This article covers features available in the Plus tier. If you subscribe to EP’s Core tier, refer to the blue breakout boxes for the feature differences specific to your plan.

Table Of Contents

  • Best practice guide to in-class trials
  • AI can enhance the teaching and learning cycle
  • Ethics & harmonisation
  • Setting up for success
    • Introducing AI to your students
    • Using the AI tool in class

Best practice guide to in-class trials

Our AI Powered Feedback tool delivers immediate, personalised student feedback for extended response answers, helping every student reach their potential. 

Engaging our AI feedback tool in your classroom is an opportunity to:

  • Introduce AI tools to your students via a trusted partner
  • Encourage responsible use of AI
  • See first-hand the impact AI can have on learning progress and student outcomes

AI can enhance the teaching and learning cycle

Data and feedback are central to everything we do at EP. They power a teaching and learning cycle that helps educators guide each student towards mastery. AI enhances this cycle by accelerating and enriching data and feedback moments. 

Ethics and Harmonisation

We recognise that each school is at a different stage of transformation when it comes to the use of AI. Wherever you are on this journey, we’re here to help. Our AI tool is developed in accordance with the latest government regulations and our team of experts are available to help you safely and effectively introduce AI into the classroom.

MEANINGFUL

Beyond simply ‘providing answers’, this tool progressively coaches students to gain deeper understanding of topics. Our models are also carefully trained to promote responsible inputs and ethical use. 

SAFE & SECURE

We do not use any student answers to train our AI models, and all data is stored securely in line with our industry-leading security and privacy standards. Learn more about our data privacy measures. 

ACCESSIBLE & INCLUSIVE 

The tool equalises the classroom, giving every student access to personalised learning at scale. It’s available 24/7 and has been integrated into EP lessons that students are already familiar with.

HUMAN-CENTRED 

We believe technology enables – not replaces – the teacher. Our tool is designed to amplify your classroom impact. As a part of your trial, we also offer training to ensure you get the most out of the AI tool.

Setting up for success

To ensure your students have a positive experience with our new AI tool, it’s important to introduce it thoughtfully. We’ve put together a few points we encourage you to talk with your students while you start this AI journey with us.

While our AI tool has been robustly developed in partnership with many schools, creating an optimised model is a long and complex process. We therefore recommend introducing the tool with some considerations in mind.

Step 1: Introducing AI

Firstly, let the students know that EP’s new feedback tool is powered by AI. And while computers are smart, they can also be wrong! It’s important that students are still on the lookout for errors, bias and ‘hallucinations’, as they would be with other AI tools such as ChatGPT. Learn more around the AI glossary.

Step 2: Setting expectations

Next, we recommend having a conversation about why feedback is important. Remind students that the goal is to improve, not to be perfect. The most effective way for students to engage with the AI feedback is to focus on one or two points, improve their answer, and then submit again. They’ll receive updated feedback and can repeat this process (Plus subcribers only).

Step 3: Knowing the limitations

Our AI tool is available for most extended response questions, but it's turned off for some—especially those with multimedia elements like PDFs, audio, or video. While we strive for accuracy, we know it won’t always be perfect. If a student spots incorrect feedback, they can use the thumbs down button to report it. This helps us continue to improve the tool.

Step 4: Explaining the five-star rating  

Our AI tool rates all student responses using a star-rating system by comparing them to curriculum-aligned model answers and explanations crafted by educators. A guide to star ratings is as follows:

Response quality:

Weak = 1-2 stars (low-quality response)

Standard = 3 Stars (average response)

Thorough = 4 Stars (detailed response)

Students should know that earning five stars can be challenging, and a four-star response is already a great result! This is especially important for perfectionist learners—it’s not worth getting frustrated or stuck. It’s also helpful to clarify that this is a learning tool, not an assessment, and star ratings won’t appear on report cards.  

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