Everything you need, in one place

A friendly writing space for students, powerful review tools for teachers, and the controls a whole school needs — all built around evidencing honest authorship.

For students

A focused, tracked editor

✓Clean rich-text editor with formatting, tables, images and a maths panel.
✓Planning prompts and sentence starters help students get going.
✓One-click citations build a referenced bibliography automatically (Harvard, APA, MLA).
✓Autosaves constantly — and quietly records the drafting process as they write.

The First Draft student editor — The student editor — planning tools, citations and autosave, with the writing process captured in the background.

For teachers

Replay how the writing happened

✓Watch any submission rebuild itself, keystroke by keystroke.
✓Plain-language integrity signals flag large late pastes, unusual bursts and low editing.
✓Signals are there to prompt a conversation with the student.
✓See writing spread across multiple sittings and days at a glance.

Draft replay and integrity signals — Scrub through a draft from blank page to final, with markers for pastes, long pauses and writing sessions.

For teachers

Mark with rubrics and in-text feedback

✓Reusable rubric library — shared, school-wide or private, with import from Word, PDF or spreadsheet.
✓Click-to-mark rubric grids with an overall grade and comment.
✓In-text comments anchor to a quote and highlight it for the student.
✓Checkpoints let you track progress across a task.

The rubric library — build your own, or import from Word, PDF or a spreadsheet; keep them private, share school-wide, or use a shared set.

For students

Clear, focused feedback

✓Grade and overall comment up top, with the work alongside.
✓Click a margin comment to jump to the exact spot it refers to.
✓View the marked rubric to see exactly where marks were awarded.

The student feedback view — Returned work shows the grade, teacher comments in the margin and the marked rubric — all in one view.

For schools

Whole-school management

✓Self-serve onboarding with school sign-up pages, staff codes and class join codes.
✓School branding — your logo and colours across sign-in and the app.
✓Admin tools, plus a class roster that shows who's started, who's done and who needs a nudge.
✓Export all your data and clear student work at the end of each year — you stay in control.

Teacher dashboard and class view — Classes, assignments, students and integrity signals — organised for the way schools run.

Want to see it with real data?

The live demo is a full class of realistic student work — replays, signals, rubrics and feedback included.

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