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Activity-management features

Bring courses, activities, and submissions into one workflow. Set up assignments, collect work, and manage grading with tools built for educators and institutions.

Enterprise-Ready Activity Management

  • MATCHA activities are part of courses, which are parts of organizations.
  • An organization can have multiple administrators, instructors, and other members.
  • Much of MATCHA's behavior can be controlled through activity settings and configuration objects such as Browser Configs, Staff Lists, and ID Configs, which can be standardized within an organization and shared between instructors.

Cloud Submissions

  • Collect .docx files and .mcha replay files through your cloud storage provider of choice (including MATCHA Cloud).
  • Submissions are organized by course and activity.
  • Submissions can be organized in groups to facilitate grading by multiple graders.
  • Enterprise customers can exercise close control on cloud targets to ensure compliance with data security and privacy policies.

Grading Tool

  • MATCHA has a built-in grading tool in the Instructor menu.
  • Download all cloud-submitted essays with one click.
  • Browse and open the essays from MATCHA.
  • Insert comments, including saved comments from your comment bank, directly with MATCHA.
  • Enter grades and either export them as a CSV file or submit them using LTI if this integration is enabled.
  • Feedback is sent directly to students through their MATCHA copy.

LTI Integration (Enterprise feature)

  • MATCHA can use LTI to authenticate students and enable grade submission from its built-in grading interface.
  • To enable this feature, LMS administrators need to configure MATCHA as an LTI tool.

Privacy Levels and End-to-End Encryption

  • Course privacy levels let institutions choose how much student information MATCHA services can process, from standard managed workflows to zero-trust activity design.
  • Privacy Level 1, Standard: MATCHA can process student identity, activity data, and work histories when enabled features require it, with an activity-specific disclosure before students begin.
  • Privacy Level 2, No PII sharing: student names, IDs, and emails are encrypted end to end between MATCHA Writer and authorized course staff. MATCHA receives only placeholder identity fields and allowed anonymous control data.
  • Privacy Level 3, No student information sharing: extends end-to-end encryption to protected student work products, work histories, and submissions, so MATCHA cannot read student work.
  • Privacy Level 4, Zero Trust: adds course-pack-only browsing to Level 3, so students do not need to trust MATCHA Writer or MATCHA services with ordinary web-browsing credentials or confidential browsing activity.
  • Privacy Levels 2 and above use a course passphrase/private key model that MATCHA cannot recover, giving instructors protected access while keeping encrypted course data unreadable outside the institution.
  • For more information, see the Data Protection and Privacy page.

Anonymous Submissions

  • Keeps the participant's identity out of the generated .docx file to support blind grading workflows.
  • This does not remove names or identifiers that the participant types into the document itself.

Attendance Sheets

  • For in-person activities such as exams, MATCHA automatically generates an attendance sheet as part of the check-in process.
  • The attendance sheet includes assigned seat numbers, check-in time, and check-out time.
Educator's Guide