A smooth submission and grading workflow

All essays, one click.
Feedback straight to students.

Collect .docx and .mcha replay files through MATCHA Cloud, organized by course and activity. Download every submission with one click, comment from your saved comment bank, and send feedback straight to students in MATCHA. Export grades as CSV or sync with your LMS through our integrations (Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and others).

Explore the features

Grade, comment, return.

In practice

From submission to returned feedback.

When a class submits its essays, download them all with one click and organize them in groups for your graders. Open each essay in MATCHA, add comments from your comment bank, and enter a grade. Then send the feedback to students and export the grades or sync with your LMS through our integrations (Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and others).

Alternatively, receive certified .docx files through your LMS and use your usual grading workflow.

Collect and organize the work

Students submit .docx and .mcha replay files to MATCHA Cloud, organized by course, activity, and grading group.
Read, comment, and assess

Open essays in MATCHA, insert saved comments from your comment bank, and enter grades. Anonymous submissions keep students’ identities out of the .docx for blind grading.
Return feedback and grades

Students read your comments in their copy of MATCHA, in the context of their work. Export grades as a CSV file or sync them with your LMS when an integration is enabled.

In detail

How each feature works.

What each feature does, its options, and what it requires.

Cloud Submissions

Collect .docx files and .mcha replay files through MATCHA Cloud.
Submissions are organized by course and activity.
Submissions can be organized in groups to facilitate grading by multiple graders.

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.
Anomalous submissions and likely transcriptions are flagged for you. Investigate through the detailed project history analysis.
Insert comments, including saved comments from your comment bank, directly with MATCHA.
Enter grades and either export them as a CSV file or sync them with your LMS when an integration is enabled.
Feedback is sent directly to students through their MATCHA copy.

Grading Feedback

Add comments directly to an essay in MATCHA’s grading interface, including reusable comments from your comment bank.
Return feedback to students through their copy of MATCHA, so they can read it in the context of their submitted work.
Grades can also be exported as a CSV file or synced with your LMS when an integration is enabled.

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.

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.

Certified .docx

Certified .docx files integrate with legacy grading workflows. Receive them through your LMS and use your usual tools to grade and return feedback.
MATCHA outputs signed .docx files that can be read by all major word processors and verified as having been produced by MATCHA with specific settings.
The .docx files produced for instructor-managed activities contain a cover page showing which integrity settings were enabled for the project, extensive editing statistics with a time/location graph, and, when Complete Work History is enabled, a reading analysis showing how much of cited and other works was read.
A .docx file's authenticity can be checked using the verification tool in the MATCHA instructor menu.