eMarking Assistant automates and repurposes the Word comment tool. In addition to automated comments and a comment bank, it supports importing and exporting comments to allow sharing comment banks as Word documents. This also allows editing comments independently and including graphics, links and tables within comments. You can create customisable marking rubrics with weighted criteria and standards, and automatic tallying of grades. Audio comments can also be used, with some configuration.... The tool can search for selected words or phrases on the Web, which is useful for detecting potential plagiarism (this is a Google search and does not conduct pre-emptive matching in the same way as systems like Turnitin or SafeAssign), or highlight phrases throughout the document if the student repeats the same error.
