Teachers can now store and organise exam questions, track performance across batches, and build reusable comment banks:

• Question paper OCR — Scan an exam paper and let AI extract individual questions automatically
• Template comment bank — Save reusable feedback comments for common strengths and weaknesses
• Batch session history — Review past marking sessions and track class progress over time
• Per-question analytics — Compare scores across batches for the same question, with criterion-level breakdowns
• Format heuristic badges — Visual indicators for text type conventions (e.g. letter format, report structure)

Teachers can now mark an entire class of essays in one go. Upload a single PDF of student work and EssayHero will split, recognise, and analyse each essay individually.

• 7-step wizard — Configure, upload, review pages, review OCR text, review groupings, analyse, and view results
• Per-page OCR — Each page is scanned separately with streaming text reveal, so you can review as it progresses
• AI essay boundary detection — Gemini AI identifies where one student's essay ends and the next begins
• Parallel analysis — Multiple essays are analysed simultaneously for faster turnaround
• CSV export — Download all scores and feedback as a spreadsheet
• Individual share links — Generate a shareable report link for each student

Access Batch Marking from the header navigation. Sign-in required.

A suite of tools to give teachers full control over AI-generated feedback and scores within Batch Marking:

• Score override and notes — Click any criterion score to override it with your own judgement; add per-essay teacher notes that flow into exports and share links
• Review workflow — Mark each essay as pending, reviewed, or approved with filter and bulk actions
• Feedback verbosity — Choose brief (scores only), standard, or detailed (with exemplar rewrites) to control token usage and feedback depth
• Custom instructions — Add free-text grading instructions that are injected directly into the AI prompt
• Custom rubrics — Fork a built-in exam rubric or create one from scratch; saved to your account for reuse
• Class analytics — View score histograms, per-criterion bar charts, and a student-by-criteria heatmap
• Enhanced export — Print all reports with page breaks per student, or download an enriched CSV with overrides, notes, and review status

We've launched five new AI-powered learning tools to help you improve your writing:

• Vocabulary Enhancement — Analyse word choice and get suggestions for more varied vocabulary
• Text Type Checker — Verify your essay follows the correct format conventions
• Rewrite Assistant — Get progressive hints to improve weak sentences
• Prompt Generator — Generate exam-style essay prompts for practice
• Sentence Drills — Practice exercises to improve sentence variety

Access them from the "Writing Tools" link in the header.

EssayHero now supports IELTS Writing Task 1 (Academic) — the data description task.

Get feedback on your chart, graph, and table descriptions using official IELTS band descriptors for Task Achievement, Coherence & Cohesion, Lexical Resource, and Grammatical Range & Accuracy.

Track your writing progress over time with the new Dashboard. Sign in with Google to:

• Save essays to your personal history
• View score trends and improvement charts
• See your total essays analysed and best scores
• Delete essays from your history at any time

Your data is private and only you can see your dashboard.

Have a handwritten essay? You can now scan it directly in EssayHero.

Click "Scan Handwriting" to upload photos of your handwritten work. Our OCR technology will convert it to text, which you can then edit and analyse as usual.

Supports up to 10 pages per scan.

EssayHero now offers 6 visual themes to personalise your experience:

• Scholar (default) — Deep burgundy, academic feel
• Aurora — Teal, Nordic minimalist
• Obsidian — Amber accents, premium dark mode
• Sakura — Dusty rose, soft and rounded
• Monochrome — Bold editorial black and white
• AI Lab — Modern coral aesthetic

All themes support both light and dark modes. Find the theme selector in the header.

Every essay analysis now includes Writing Metrics — research-backed measurements of your writing quality:

• Vocabulary (MTLD) — Measures word variety. Target: 80-100
• Sentences (MLT) — Average sentence length. Target: 14-18 words
• Readability — Complexity level. Target: Form 4-5 equivalent

Visual target zones show you where your writing falls and whether you need to adjust.