A school markbook for reliable assessment workflows
Managed Markbook
The Managed Markbook helps Australian secondary schools standardise assessment workflows, manage trusted academic records, and replace fragmented spreadsheets with one consistent source of truth. Reliable analytics begin with reliable assessment workflows. Trusted academic records make those workflows possible.
What is the Markbook?
An assessment management platform that replaces the term-marks spreadsheet, run by us.
Spreadsheet-like, without the downsides
The familiar grid you already know, without the scattered files, mismatched formats, and version confusion
Live as marks are entered
Cohort statistics and grade distributions update in real time
Automatic calculations
Weighted components calculate automatically and stay consistent
Consistent by design
Everything is organised consistently across the school, reducing setup differences between faculties and making reporting more reliable
Every school knows the file.
Term 2 Marks FINAL v7.xlsx. Emailed between three teachers. Two are editing it at the same time. One is on the wrong version. A formula broke last week and nobody noticed. Reporting week is coming.
We built the Markbook because that file should not be running a school's assessment cycle.
Teachers enter marks. Heads of Department manage assessment. Leaders monitor performance. Administrators govern the academic framework. Everyone works from the same trusted academic record.
Weighted components calculate automatically. Grade cutoffs can be adjusted between reporting periods. Every change is tracked.
When reporting week comes, the numbers are already there.
The result isn't just a better way to enter marks. It's a trusted foundation for assessment, reporting, and academic decision-making.
Built around your academic framework
Academic years organised around recognised certificates and syllabuses, with school-defined reporting periods, grading, and assessment structures built in.
Academic framework
Academic years organised by the certificate or syllabus they belong to, not recreated in a new spreadsheet each year
School-defined reporting periods
Terms, semesters, cycles, or whatever reporting structure your school actually uses
Assessment structure
Weighted components and assessment rules are enforced by the platform, not left to whoever built the spreadsheet. The result is consistent calculations, reliable reporting, and academic records schools can trust
Assessment exceptions (IMA)
Illness, misadventure, absence, and non-submission recorded against the assessment, with the original result preserved and estimation status tracked
Non-academic reporting
Effort, behaviour, homework, and participation recorded alongside marks, not in a separate spreadsheet
Live grades
Calculated from current marks and the approved cutoffs, so they always reflect the latest grading policy
Governance
Version history, reporting-period locks, and complete change history help schools finalise marks, protect approved data, and keep every change accountable
Permissions
Department, year-level, teacher, and per-markbook access, so people see exactly what they should
Schools don't organise assessment around spreadsheets. They organise it around academic years, reporting periods, subjects, and assessment policies.
The Managed Markbook provides one consistent framework for assessment management, modelling those structures directly: academic years are organised around the certificate or syllabus they belong to, and each carries its own school-defined reporting periods, grading, and assessment structure, rather than being recreated every year in another spreadsheet. Common curriculum structures for the HSC, VCE, IB, and other supported certificates come ready to use, and each new academic year carries forward the framework and policies from the last, so schools start quickly instead of rebuilding everything.
The result is more than consistency. Assessment structures don't drift between faculties, finalised reporting periods stay finalised, and every report, grade, and academic decision is built from the same trusted academic record.
Designed for every role
Different people in a school need different things from the markbook. We built for all of them.
Teachers
A keyboard-first grid that gets out of your way. Tab between cells. Enter to commit. Arrow keys to move. Mark entry takes seconds, not minutes. Learner profile ratings live alongside the marks, so non-academic attributes like effort and cooperation don't end up in a second spreadsheet you forget to update.
Heads of Department
Design assessments, manage assessment exceptions (including illness and misadventure), and control who can edit marks, learner profiles, and reporting periods. Your faculty follows one consistent process instead of a permission free-for-all.
Administrators and IT
Configure academic years, reporting periods, grading policies, learner profiles, permissions, integrations, and assessment exception codes. Monitor synchronisation, review reports, investigate failures, and manage the academic framework from one administration interface.
Principals and coordinators
Live, read-only visibility of performance as marks are entered. Summary statistics and cohort metrics update as marks are entered. Grade distributions. Estimation status flags so you can see at a glance what's confirmed and what's still provisional.
However they use it, everyone works within the same reporting periods, permissions, and academic record, so the whole school follows one consistent process instead of a patchwork of faculty spreadsheets. Reporting week becomes about reviewing results, not reconciling spreadsheets.
Connected, visible and auditable
Connected to the systems your school already runs, with clear sync reporting when records are created, updated, skipped, or fail.
Student information systems
Keep students, staff, classes, and enrolments synchronised with the Markbook, while assessment results flow back into TASS so marks are entered once and used everywhere
Flexible import
CSV import for schools that want to get going without committing to a full integration project upfront
Identity and access
SAML or OIDC single sign-on, so staff and students use the credentials they already have
Observable synchronisation
A downloadable report on every synchronisation showing each affected record, whether it was created, updated, skipped, or failed, with a plain-English explanation and how to resolve it
A markbook only matters if the data in it can be used elsewhere without extra work.
TASS keeps students, staff, classes, and enrolments synchronised with the Markbook. Schoolbox brings students, staff, and assessments in. Assessment results then flow back into TASS, so marks are entered once and used wherever the school needs them.
CSV import is there for schools that want to get going without committing to a full integration project upfront.
SAML or OIDC single sign-on means your staff and students log in with the credentials they already have, not a new password to remember.
Sync reporting makes every synchronisation observable, before and after. Before a sync runs, administrators can see how records will flow through the process. Afterwards, a downloadable row-by-row report shows what was created, updated, skipped, or failed, with plain-English reasons and next steps. Most integrations run silently until something breaks quietly in the background; here, problems surface where an administrator can see and resolve them, so a failed enrolment or a skipped class doesn't go unnoticed until reporting week.
Security
The Managed Markbook is built with Australian hosting, isolated school environments, role-based access, Single Sign-On, and versioned academic records with a complete change history. Operations, patching, and backups are handled by us.
The result is confidence that your school's academic records stay private, protected, and recoverable, whatever happens.
For full detail on infrastructure, encryption, and Australian data residency, see our page on platform security and Australian data residency.