✍️ Advanced Marking

We've finished rolling out one of our biggest features we've ever done - Advanced marking!

a major upgrade to Synap’s marking system designed to support complex, multi-step marking processes with greater transparency, flexibility, and control.

Here’s what’s new:

🔁 Double & Blind MarkingEnable multiple provisional markers per attempt with configurable blind settings — control whether markers see each other’s scores or candidate identities.

🧩 Resolution Marking

Set agreement thresholds between provisional markers. If they agree, the system can auto-finalise marks using your chosen resolution strategy (e.g. average). Disagreements route to a human moderator.

🚩 Escalation Marking

Allow provisionals and moderators to escalate attempts when they can’t mark (e.g. sensitive content or formatting issues). Escalation markers can finalise or reject with comments. One-time escalation per attempt.

🔍 Backreading

Assign backreaders to review and override moderation decisions. If used, the backreader’s marks become the final, authoritative scores.

📊 Auditing

Give internal or external reviewers visibility across all marking inputs. Auditors can leave feedback and scoring commentary — without impacting final marks.

Whether you need blind double marking, detailed audit trails, or second-stage QA, Synap's Advanced Marking features are here to build your workflows

🧠 Learn more about Advanced Marking here

📼 Watch our video Walkthroughs on Marking here