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Writing Assessment · Years 3–12

Mark once. Teach on Monday.

Writeiq is teacher-confirmed writing measurement for Years 3–12. Every assessment becomes one next step for the student, the next teaching priority for the class and a whole-school view for leaders.

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Write in the app Set a task; students draft, get draft feedback, and submit. Practice mode and lockdown included. Scan handwriting Phone photos and PDFs of handwritten work, transcribed for your check, then assessed the same way. Criterion feedback One next step per student, with every score traced back to highlighted evidence in their piece. Monday lesson plans An L1–L5 gradual-release sequence built from the same marking event. PPTX export. NAPLAN readiness Criterion-level readiness from classroom writing, mapped to the published band framework. Independent of ACARA. VCE trial exams Year 12. All three sections set once and marked as one paper, out of 60. Senior, every jurisdiction HSC, WACE, QCE, SACE, TASC, ACT BSSS and IB DP mocks, each in its own reporting construct. Primary to secondary Years 5–7 on one framework. Baseline incoming students against what they did in primary. Faculty moderation Same rubric and same deterministic technical rules for every teacher, with cross-class comparison. Leadership insight Band heatmap, where the gaps are, term-on-term growth, and a targeted PD action plan. Family reports A student portfolio and family report spanning every task, showing the growth over time. Safeguarding & NCCD Concerning writing flagged to the school, and dated criterion evidence NCCD accepts.
Every capability runs on one engine: IWAF 3.0, Edsthetic’s own assessment framework, authored in house and re-checked by deterministic technical rules. Years 3–12, nine mapped curriculum frameworks plus seven senior assessment constructs. The teacher’s confirmed judgment is always the record.
Australian data storage. Held in AWS Sydney, ap-southeast-2.
No model training. Contractual terms: student writing is never used to train external models.
Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Australian Privacy Principles explicit.
NCCD-aware. Adjustments for students with disability built in.
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See it in action

The product, not the pitch.

Six views from inside the app: real product interfaces using representative demonstration data. What teachers, students, and leaders actually see.

app.writeiq.com.au / Staff - Marking - 7A
The Writeiq marking view for a Year 7 class: every student marked, criterion scores beside each result, and the next teaching move named above the table with a button to generate the lesson.
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.
app.writeiq.com.au / Staff - Marking - Barros, Luca
A marked piece open in the Writeiq workspace: the student writing on the left with evidence phrases highlighted, the quoted evidence for each criterion beside it, and a score against every criterion on the right.
EVIDENCE-LINKED
Every score traces back to highlighted phrases in the writing.
02 - Marking view
The writing and the score, side by side.

Open a student's piece and the IWAF 3.0 analysis produces a criterion-level score for your review, with each judgement linked to highlighted evidence in the writing itself. Consistency checks surface anomalies to look at before you sign off.

You hold the pen. The analysis is advisory; your confirmed score is the official result. Confirm, adjust a criterion, or add a one-line note where you see it differently.
app.writeiq.com.au / Student - My feedback
A marked piece as the student sees it: the WriteIQ band and score, what they did well quoted back to them, the single criterion to develop next, and a concrete thing to try.
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, four differentiated voices (one per band), 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.
app.writeiq.com.au / 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. A summary of what L1 covered is carried into the next generation automatically, so L2 picks up where L1 stopped rather than repeating it.

Printable, exportable, yours. Export to PPTX and walk into class. The engine stays out of the classroom. You stay in it.
app.writeiq.com.au / Leadership - Insights - Year 7 narrative
The leadership Insights view: three Year 7 classes plotted on growth against achievement, each in its quadrant, with a plain-English read of which class is moving and which has stalled.
GROWTH vs ACHIEVEMENT
Leadership sees the gap automatically. No teacher compiles a report.
05 - Leadership insights
The whole school at a glance.

Every class in a year level plotted on growth against achievement, so a class coasting on a strong starting point sits beside the one climbing from behind - and you can tell them apart. Filter by year, class, genre and term. Students, NAPLAN readiness, Compare and the Action Plan are one click along the same row. The view updates 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.
app.writeiq.com.au / Staff - Upload scans - 7A
The scan upload step: the assessment being uploaded to, a drop zone that takes photos, PDFs or a ZIP, and what happens next spelled out including that student writing is never altered.
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. Review. Mark.

Classes that write by hand get the same assessment as classes that type. A phone photo of a page is read by the Vision pipeline, the transcript is prepared for a quick teacher check, and the work is then marked against the same IWAF 3.0 rubric. Upload one page or a whole class at once, as JPG, PNG, PDF, or a ZIP of scans, up to 10MB each.

No retyping. The handwriting-to-feedback pipeline exists because primary teachers asked for it. Check the transcript. Confirm. Teach.
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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
Built for fast teacher review. Three reports from one marking pass, generated in parallel. The teacher does not run the marking pipeline three times.
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
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 ten year levels. 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.

Framework mapping
NAPLAN readiness
How IWAF's dimensions map to the NAPLAN writing rubric, and the boundaries we set on that mapping. Rubric mapping is framework-based and labelled at every year level. Independent of ACARA.
See the mapping →
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 calibration 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 →
The IWAF methodology

Seven dimensions. One framework.

01 · Authored first
IWAF is Edsthetic’s own framework, written in house by our literacy team. Every criterion, every year-level expectation and every non-negotiable rule exists before a model ever sees a script.
02 · Applied, not invented
The model’s job is to apply that authored instrument to one piece of writing. It is not handed a rubric at runtime and asked what it thinks, which is where most of this category starts.
03 · Re-checked in code
Deterministic software re-checks the result after the model answers: technical rules are enforced in ordinary code, and unvalidated heuristic rules were removed rather than silently trusted. Then the teacher confirms it, and that is the record.

Every piece of writing in Writeiq is marked against the same seven dimensions, judged against the same framework, with the approved year-level interpretation applied to the result. 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 ten year levels, Years 3 to 12.
Read the IWAF 3.0 explainer →
Curriculum alignment

Sixteen framework surfaces. One assessment.

The seven IWAF dimensions above expand to up to eleven marked criteria depending on genre and year level, and every criterion score maps to curriculum codes and achievement standard descriptors across all active frameworks simultaneously - presented in each framework’s own construct: an MYP criterion out of 8, a QCE ISMG mark out of 25, a SACE performance-standard letter. No manual cross-referencing, no generic percentages with a label.

Victorian Curriculum 2.0Australian Curriculum v9IB PYPIB MYPIB DPNSW NESAQLD QCAAWA WASCSAUK National CurriculumVCEHSCWACEQCESACETASCACT BSSS

Years 3-12 - Primary and secondary modes - Senior assessment constructs for every Australian jurisdiction - Up to 11 criteria assessed - Deterministic technical rules on every score

The evidence

A writing measurement system - not a black-box marker.

Writeiq’s assessment framework was authored before artificial intelligence was applied. The technical white paper explains the criteria, deterministic gates, teacher confirmation, benchmark evidence, production controls and the limits of what Writeiq claims.

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Years 11–12

Senior assessment, in every jurisdiction’s own construct.

Writeiq creates senior English assessment as one special task (or a set of linked section tasks), marks it on IWAF with full criterion feedback, and presents the result the way each jurisdiction actually reports - marks, bands, letters or ratings. Every projection is clearly labelled indicative, and the teacher’s confirmed judgment is always the record.

VCE (VIC) - a complete Year 12 trial exam on the 2024-2027 study design. Sections A, B and C are set up as linked tasks in one step, each marked separately with section-specific feedback, and the results read the way a VCE statement reads: an indicative mark per section and an overall out of 60.
HSC (NSW) - Paper 1 and Paper 2 as five linked section tasks, indicative marks out of 20 per section, a total out of 100 and an indicative Performance Band. Both prescription periods supported through the 2026 transition.
WACE (WA) - Comprehending, Responding and Composing as three linked tasks, weighted 30/40/30 to an indicative total out of 100.
QCE (QLD) - mock External Assessment, IA1 or IA3, marked with indicative ISMG criterion marks (9/8/8) out of 25, drawing texts from the QCAA prescribed list 2026-2029.
IB DP - Paper 1 and Paper 2 mock papers (SL and HL) with indicative criterion marks on the current assessment criteria. IB 1-7 grades are session-boundary decisions and are never projected.
SACE (SA & NT) - Comparative Analysis mock external with indicative performance-standard letters (KU, An, Ap) on the A+ to E− scale.
TASC (TAS) - mock external assessing the five externally assessed criteria of English Level 3, each with an indicative A/B/C/t rating and the criterion-6 key-criterion check. The TCE award is never projected.
ACT BSSS - the ACT has no external English exam, so Writeiq creates BSSS unit assessment tasks (Responding or Creating) with an indicative holistic A to E task grade. Unit grades, course scores, the AST and the ATAR remain school and BSSS processes.
Set texts, built in - studied-text pickers draw from the official current lists: NESA prescriptions (both periods), the QCAA prescribed list, the SCSA suggested list, and a school-curated shelf for IB DP.
Teaching VCE English? Every VCAA set and mentor text for 2026 and 2027 - all 47 works, with teaching notes, themes, critical context and the IWAF criteria each text is best suited to teach - lives in the free, searchable text library. Senior lessons ground themselves in the specific text you pick: students see prompts that reference the actual work, not generic placeholders. Browse the VCE library → Free · no login · searchable by year, list and framework
Marked on IWAF, presented on each jurisdiction’s scale. Every senior result is an indicative projection of the full criterion-level IWAF analysis onto the jurisdiction’s reporting construct, clearly labelled as such. Teacher-confirmed judgments are always the official school record, and nothing in Writeiq counts towards any student’s official result.
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. Deterministic technical rules 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
16 frameworks, up to 11 criteria - VC2, AC9, PYP, MYP, DP, NESA, QCAA, WASCSA, UK NC, plus senior constructs for VCE, HSC, WACE, QCE, SACE, TASC and ACT BSSS
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

The full assessment and teaching workflow above is included at every tier. Tiers differ by enrolment band, scanning volume, single sign-on, onboarding and support level - the breakdown is on the pricing page. No per-student fees.

Writeiq 2026 Founding Schools Evidence Partnership

Three schools. Two terms. A properly measured implementation.

Writeiq is inviting three Australian schools to join the 2026 Founding Schools Evidence Partnership. Participating schools receive fully funded, structured access during Terms 3 and 4, including onboarding, implementation support and a school evidence report. The partnership will examine blind teacher–Writeiq agreement, marking workflow, student feedback, Teach Next and responsible artificial-intelligence implementation. Schools are not required to provide a positive testimonial or agree to public identification.

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Resources

Everything you need to get started.

Writeiq one-pager
Share with leadership
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Teacher guide
Getting started
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Student instructions
Classroom handout
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Research basis
Evidence base
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Firewall guide
IT setup
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Data Processing Agreement
Compliance
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Founding Schools participation FAQ
For partner schools
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Pricing sheet
Both products
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Moderation protocol
Faculty calibration
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Service level agreement
Support commitment
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NLLP crosswalk
National Literacy Learning Progressions
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