Edsthetic → Writeiq
Writing Assessment · Years 3–12

Mark once. Teach on Monday.

One marking event produces student feedback, a GRR lesson plan, and whole-school literacy data. Here's how.

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See it in action

The product, not the pitch.

Six views from inside the app. Real interfaces, real data. What teachers, students, and leaders actually see.

writeiq.edsthetic.com / Teacher home
Monday question
What should I teach this class on Monday?
Priority criterion - Year 8 Narrative - 27 pieces
Text Structure
74% of students are in Emerging or Developing bands - complications are introduced but rarely resolved.
Generate L1 lesson
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ONE QUESTION
The dashboard tells you what to teach, not what happened.
01 - Teacher home
Open Writeiq. See the Monday question.

Every teacher's home screen answers one question: what criterion should I teach next week, and which students need it most. No dashboard excavation. No scrolling through charts. The answer is on the screen within two seconds of loading.

The Monday promise. A teacher opens the app at 4pm Friday. By 4:02pm, they have a lesson plan for Monday and a class list grouped by band.
writeiq.edsthetic.com / Marking - Sam Okafor - Year 8 Narrative
Student writing - 612 words

The Last Light

The rain had been falling for three days straight when Maya finally opened her grandmother's letter. She read it twice, then folded it carefully and placed it back in the envelope. Outside, the streetlight flickered once and died, leaving the kitchen in a grey half-light.

"You should eat something," her father said from the doorway. She hadn't heard him come in. "It's been hours."

Maya didn't look up. The letter was the last thing her grandmother had written - three pages of careful handwriting, each word chosen...

612 words
38 sentences
GATE-G flag
Scores
34/46 74%
Consolidating
Voice & Narrative Engagement
4/6
Text Structure
3/6
Ideas
4/6
Character & Setting
4/5
Vocabulary
3/4
Spelling
1/4
GATE-G CAUGHT IT
Spelling outpaced Voice - the engine flagged for review.
02 - Marking view
The writing and the rubric, side by side.

Open a student's piece and see the IWAF 3.0 engine produce criterion-level scores for your review. 26 logic gates validate the scoring - if spelling outpaces sentence structure, or a narrative lacks structural resolution, the engine flags it for your review before you submit.

Two minutes per student. Your job is to confirm, adjust, and add a one-line note where you disagree. The engine does the scoring scaffolding.
writeiq.edsthetic.com / Student - My feedback
Your feedback
Consolidating
The Last Light - 74%
What's working
Your opening paragraph sets up character, place, and mood in three sentences - that's hard to do. The flickering streetlight is doing double work: it's a real detail AND a signal that things are about to change. Keep making details earn their place like that.
Focus for next time
Your complication is clear - Maya has just read the letter - but the story ends before we see her act on it. Narratives at Consolidating introduce tension; at Extending, they resolve it. For your next piece, try writing three endings and pick the one that most changes Maya.
Teacher note: "This piece shows real voice. Push for the ending it deserves."
BAND-DIFFERENTIATED
Same marking event. Three different audiences, all served.
03 - Student feedback
Feedback a student can actually use.

Every student sees feedback written for their band. A Consolidating writer hears about structural tension. An Emerging writer hears about finishing a sentence. Same marking event, six differentiated voices, zero overlap.

Three audiences, one event. The same piece of writing generates student feedback, a teacher GRR lesson, and a leadership priority card. Nothing is produced twice.
writeiq.edsthetic.com / Lesson plan - Text Structure L1
L1 - I Do
Text Structure - Narrative Resolution
45 min
Export PPTX
Learning intention
Students will understand how to resolve narrative complications, moving from introducing tension to resolving it through character change.
1 - HOOK (5m)
Read two endings to the same story. Which changed the character more?
2 - MODEL (15m)
Teacher writes three endings to a shared prompt, thinking aloud about what each does to the character.
3 - NAME IT (10m)
Class co-creates the "resolution checklist": what a resolved ending must do.
Teacher moves
  • Ask: "What did the character know at the start that they don't know now?"
  • Probe: "Is the ending resolved or just stopped?"
  • Extend: Students draft three endings and choose the strongest with a partner.
BY MONDAY MORNING
A printable, exportable lesson built from the marking you just did.
04 - GRR lesson plan
Mark on Friday. Teach on Monday.

Every marking event generates a five-lesson Gradual Release sequence (L1 I Do through L5 Independent). Teacher moves, student tasks, and pedagogical strategies are drawn from the IWAF GRR content library. Paste the "save for next lesson" note and L2 picks up where L1 stopped.

Printable, exportable, yours. Export to PPTX and walk into class. The engine stays out of the classroom. You stay in it.
writeiq.edsthetic.com / Leadership - Year 8 English
Whole-school literacy
Year 8 Narrative - Term 2
147 students
·
6 classes
Class
Voice
Structure
Ideas
Char/Set
Vocab
Spell
8A - Perera
3.8
2.6
3.5
3.9
2.7
1.4
8B - Kowalski
2.4
1.8
2.6
3.0
2.1
2.0
8C - Nguyen
4.2
3.4
4.1
4.0
3.1
2.5
8D - Mwangi
3.6
2.8
3.3
3.4
2.5
1.7
▲ AT RISK
9 students
Emerging on 2+ tasks
○ BOUNDARY
16 students
1 mark from next band
EXTENDING
22 students
Ready for stretch
8B STRUCTURE 1.8
Leadership sees the gap automatically. No teacher compiles a report.
05 - Leadership heatmap
The whole school at a glance.

Every class, every criterion, one page. At-risk students flagged if Emerging across two or more tasks. Boundary students one mark from the next band. Click any cell to drill down to the student list. The leadership view updates automatically every time a teacher marks.

Zero reports. Heads of English don't email spreadsheets. The principal doesn't wait for end-of-term. The data is already there.
writeiq.edsthetic.com / Vision - Bulk scan upload
Drop photos or scans here
JPG, PNG, PDF - or a ZIP of all three - up to 5 concurrent
Processing - 3 of 27
handwritten
sample.jpg
Maya's Story - handwritten.jpg
Vision: handwritten route
Transcribed
612 words
typed.pdf
Sam's Persuasive - typed.pdf
Vision: typed route
Marked
482 words
mixed.jpg
Leo's Narrative - handwritten.jpg
⟳ Transcribing
62%
HYBRID VISION ROUTER
The router picks the right model per image. Typed and handwritten both go to the same rubric, but each takes the route best suited for accurate transcription.
06 - Vision scan
Photograph. Upload. Marked.

Classes that write by hand get the same assessment as classes that type. A phone photo of a page is transcribed by the Vision pipeline, routed automatically to the right transcription pathway, and marked against the same IWAF 3.0 rubric. Upload five at a time. Upload a ZIP of 30.

No retyping. The handwriting-to-feedback pipeline exists because primary teachers asked for it. Print the lesson plan. Teach. Repeat.
Writeiq Vision - handwritten and PDF

The last barrier to whole-class assessment.

Half your students write by hand. Vision removes that barrier. Photograph a handwritten page with your phone camera, or upload a PDF of scanned student work. The same IWAF 3.0 engine processes it, producing identical criterion feedback, lesson plans, and leadership data. Confidence scoring tells you when to check the transcription. Same engine. Same feedback. No typing required.

Phone camera capture PDF upload Handwriting transcription Confidence scoring Same IWAF engine
The IWAF methodology

Seven dimensions. One framework.

Every piece of writing in Writeiq is marked against the same seven dimensions, scaled to the student's year level. Voice and Structure for the student's intent; Cohesion and Vocabulary for the craft; Sentence Craft, Text Structure, and Conventions for the technical foundations. The IWAF (Integrated Writing Assessment Framework) is the methodology behind every score, every piece of feedback, and every cohort report.

01 · Voice
Whether the writer's stance, register, and personality come through. Voice is what makes a piece of writing belong to the writer, not the rubric.
02 · Structure
How the piece holds together as a whole - openings that set up, middles that develop, endings that resolve. The architecture of the writing, not its decoration.
03 · Cohesion
How sentences and paragraphs link to one another. Reference chains, transitions, signposting. The reader-led work that makes a piece feel like a single argument, not a list of sentences.
04 · Vocabulary
The student's repertoire of words. Range, precision, audience-fit, deliberate choice. We mark for what the student reaches for, not how often they reach for the thesaurus.
05 · Sentence Craft
Sentence-level control: variety in length and type, rhythm, deliberate fragments, embedded clauses. The writer's command of the sentence as a unit of meaning.
06 · Text Structure
Genre-specific organisation - narrative arc for stories, claim-evidence-reasoning for arguments, sequenced explanation for procedures. The right shape for the work the writing is doing.
07 · Conventions
Spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalisation. The mechanical foundations that let the rest of the writing do its job. We mark conventions in their own dimension so they neither dominate nor disappear.
Banded for the year level the student is in. A Year 4 Voice and a Year 11 Voice are scored against different rubrics. The same dimension; different expectations. That's how a single framework works for whole-school writing across nine years.
Read the IWAF 3.0 explainer →
VCE English - Years 11 & 12

All 47 set and mentor texts. One library.

Every text on the VCAA English text list for 2026 and 2027 - novels, plays, poetry, films, multimodal works, non-fiction - in one searchable library. Each card shows publisher and year details, but also teaching notes you can use this term: themes, authorial intent, critical context, mentor craft notes, sample prompts, and the IWAF criteria each text is best suited to teach. Free for teachers, no login required.

List 1 - set texts
Students study one of these as the focus of Section A in their VCE English exam. 27 texts spanning novels, plays, poetry, short stories, films, multimodal works and non-fiction.
Lucashenko - Edenglassie Harvey - Orbital García Márquez - Chronicle
List 2 - mentor texts
Students draw on these as models for their own creative response writing in Section B. 20 texts grouped under four frameworks: country, protest, personal journeys, play.
Adichie - Single Story Garner - Mrs Dunkley Winton - About the Boys

Used inside Writeiq: when teachers generate a Year 11 or 12 lesson, they can pick a text from the library and the lesson is automatically grounded in that specific work. Students see prompts that reference Edenglassie or Orbital by name, not generic placeholders.

Browse the VCE library → Free - no login - 47 texts - searchable by year, list, framework
What's new - April 2026

Highlights for every criterion.

The marker now produces a verbatim quote of evidence for every criterion - voice, structure, ideas, vocabulary, cohesion, sentence craft - not just spelling and punctuation. Click a pill in the result modal and you see exactly which words in the student's piece earned that score.

Mark once. Three audiences.

One marking event. Three reports.

A single Writeiq marking pass produces three audience-specific outputs from the same evidence: feedback the student takes home, a marking summary the teacher uses for next-step teaching, and a cohort rollup the head of department or principal reads for whole-school strategy. No re-keying, no re-formatting, no extra time.

01
For the student
A growth-focused, age-appropriate Family Report and Student Report. One next teaching step the student understands. The criterion that is strongest, framed as something to keep doing. The piece itself, with the highlighted criterion evidence so they see what their writing did, not just what it scored.
02
For the teacher
The analytical layer: marking summary, anomaly flags, criterion-level evidence ready for moderation conversations. The lesson plan generator runs from the same marking event - I Do, We Do, You Do material on the dimensions the cohort actually needs. A class snapshot you read in 30 seconds.
03
For the leader
Cohort-level patterns for the head of department or principal. Year-over-year band distributions. Which classes are tracking strong, which need PD support, which criteria are systemic across the school. Term-over-term trend lines you take to the board meeting when you defend the literacy strategy.
Fifteen minutes saved per piece. Three reports from one marking pass, generated in parallel. The teacher does not run the marking pipeline three times.
Whole-school. Whole journey.

Year 3 to Year 12. One framework.

A student's writing development from Year 3 to Year 12 in one platform, with criterion-aligned trend lines across nine years. The same IWAF rubric, banded for the year level the student is in. From the primary classroom through to the VCE Section A response, you see the same dimensions develop. That continuity is what makes Writeiq useful for whole-school literacy strategy, not just individual year-level assessment.

Years 3, 5, 7, 9
NAPLAN correlation
How IWAF maps to the publicly-published NAPLAN writing rubric. Independent of ACARA.
See the correlation →
Years 11, 12
VCE text library
All 47 set and mentor texts on the 2026 and 2027 VCAA English lists, with teaching notes per text.
Browse the library →
For leaders
The research
The IWAF methodology, theoretical underpinnings, the standard-setting trial programme.
Read the methodology →
For schools
Onboard your school
Five steps from licence activation to first marking event. About 90 minutes end to end.
See the steps →
More than assessment

Entry diagnostic. Moderation. Portfolio.

Entry and diagnostic
Use Writeiq when students arrive at Year 7 to baseline their writing across every criterion. Know where incoming students are before they write their first piece for you. Identify students who need immediate support and those ready for extension.
Year-level moderation
Same rubric, same criteria, same 26 logic gates across every teacher. Use Writeiq results as the calibration tool when teachers moderate together. Cross-class comparison shows where marking is consistent and where it diverges.
Student portfolio
Consolidated multi-task family report showing every assessment, growth trajectory, consistent strengths, and areas to focus on. One page. Clear progress. Parents see the whole writing journey, not just one snapshot.
Curriculum alignment

Nine frameworks. One assessment.

Every criterion score maps to curriculum codes and achievement standard descriptors across all active frameworks simultaneously. No manual cross-referencing.

Victorian Curriculum 2.0Australian Curriculum v9IB MYPVCENSW NESAQLD QCAAWA WASCSAUK National CurriculumIB PYP

Years 3-12 - Primary and secondary modes - Up to 11 criteria assessed - 26 logic gates

What you get with Writeiq

Assessment, feedback, teaching action and leadership insight in one workflow.

Powered by IWAF 3.0 - an evidence-based literacy framework grounded in Gradual Release of Responsibility pedagogy, Rosenshine’s principles of instruction, and Sydney School genre theory. 26 logic gates validate every assessment. Every feature below is included in every licence. Read the IWAF 3.0 explainer →

For students
Feedback written for their band, with one thing to work on next
Practice Mode - students practise on their own terms. Nothing is recorded. Nobody sees it but them
Draft feedback - revise before final submission
QR code entry - scan a QR code and start writing. That is the entire login
Lockdown mode - full screen so students cannot open other tabs
For teachers
L1-L5 GRR lesson sequence - five progressive lessons, each builds on the prior. PPTX export
Writeiq Vision - scan handwritten work or upload PDFs. Same engine, same feedback
Entry and diagnostic assessment - baseline Year 7 students on arrival
Intervention and extension - strategies for every band including Extending
Year-level moderation - same rubric, same engine, every teacher. Use the results when you moderate together
Compare your classes - if you teach three Year 8 groups, see which class needs what, without waiting for leadership to tell you
Family reports + Student portfolio - one report showing every assessment, the growth, and what to work on at home
For leadership
Band heatmap - every class, every year level, one screen
Where the Gaps Are - criterion analysis across the whole school by year level
Action Plan - targeted professional learning generated from real-time writing data
Teaching Cycles - before-and-after evidence of whether interventions worked
At-risk and boundary flags - automatic identification, no manual tracking
Growth tracking - term-on-term, year-on-year cohort comparison
The engine
IWAF 3.0 - evidence-based writing framework. GRR-aligned, Rosenshine-grounded, Sydney School genre pedagogy. Learn more
MTSS-aligned bands - four achievement bands map to Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 support signals. Endorsed framework, Australian research base. MTSS detail
NCCD-compatible evidence - dated criterion-level data plus adjustment reason-logs. The evidence categories NCCD explicitly accepts. NCCD detail
Band-differentiated teaching strategies - written for real classrooms, different for every band, tested by teachers
9 frameworks, up to 11 criteria - VC2, AC9, MYP, VCE, NESA, QCAA, WASCSA, UK NC, PYP
Safeguarding - if a student writes something concerning, you know first
Moderation support - consistent marking across every teacher in the school
SSO, bulk import, year rollover - the things that usually take a term to set up are already done

Every feature above is included in every licence. No add-on charges. No per-student fees.

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