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2026/04/23
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What Makes Feedback Meaningful and How Can AI Enhance Teacher-Led Delivery
London, April 2026 – In ‘Provide Meaningful, Timely Feedback at Scale with the Power of AI’, Joanna Szoke examined the role feedback plays in learner progress, focusing not just on providing it, but on what makes it truly impactful. She also introduced and demonstrated the new TeacherMatic ‘Advanced Feedback’ generator, showing how it can empower teachers to deliver feedback at scale, save time and use AI in a safe, ethical and teacher-led way.
Moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager at Avallain, the session focused on how feedback should do more than comment on performance. It should motivate, inspire and give learners clear opportunities to improve and progress.
Feed Forward, Not Just Feedback
One of Joanna Szoke’s favourite topics, and a key area of expertise, is feedback and assessment in language teaching. She opened the session by asking an important question: what makes feedback useful?
Joanna wanted to reiterate that effective feedback should do more than just review performance; it should help students move forward. Feedback should support progress and build confidence.
She also highlighted the importance of timing and specificity. Feedback is most valuable when learners can still act on it and when it includes clear explanations, relevant examples and practical actions for improvement.
Finally, Joanna suggested that feedback can also come from self-reflection and peer review. This shift to student-centred learning allows for greater ownership and even reduces teacher workload.
Reducing Workload Without Reducing Quality
Feedback is not only important, but also one of the most time-consuming responsibilities. Alongside approaches such as self-assessment and peer review, Joanna wanted to demonstrate how TeacherMatic can enable teachers to reduce workload while still delivering impactful, effective feedback.
She introduced the new ‘Advanced Feedback’ generator. Designed to support teachers while keeping professional judgement central, it streamlines feedback workflows without compromising quality. Key features include bulk uploads, Cambridge English alignment, customisable criteria, support for handwritten submissions and annotated feedback for text-based work.
With a simple setup process, teachers can create an assignment, upload the brief or paste instructions, then choose criteria-based feedback, annotated feedback or both.
For criteria-based feedback, teachers can select their own criteria or Cambridge English criteria, with options such as Accuracy and Grammar, Vocabulary and Word Choice, Coherence and Cohesion and Fluency and Communication. Teachers can also select CEFR levels before saving the assignment and inviting submissions.
Feedback at Scale, Teachers in Control
Once assignments are created, teachers can upload one submission or bulk-upload multiple pieces of student work, making it far easier to manage feedback at scale.
Joanna highlighted that efficiency should never come at the expense of responsibility. When using AI to assess or evaluate student work, teachers should be transparent with learners and seek consent before uploading submissions.
She also emphasised that the generator is there to support the feedback process, not replace it, explaining that it should ‘help me with feedback, not produce the entire feedback’, and reinforcing the importance of keeping teachers as active participants throughout the process. Teachers should review outputs, refine responses and make the final professional judgement before anything is shared with students.
Practical Outputs for Teachers and Learners
Joanna then explored the structure of the feedback provided. It is practical, clear and ready to refine.
A dedicated For Teacher view provides a more detailed breakdown, including performance against selected criteria, recognised strengths, areas for improvement and a corresponding CEFR level. Teachers also receive a written summary of the submission, alongside suggested next steps to guide future progress.
The For Student view uses more targeted language with phrasing such as ‘You can form basic sentences, but check your verb tenses.’ This creates feedback that is more personal and easier for students to act on.
Taking Feedback Further
While useful and impactful feedback has been generated, Joanna recognises that it may still need a follow-up activity to reinforce learning, such as a gap-fill activity. The refine option allows teachers to do this. They can adapt the tone, ask to increase motivation or generate additional tasks tailored to specific learner needs.
For example, teachers can request extra practice activities that target recurring mistakes. This can turn feedback into continued learning rather than a final comment.
She also demonstrated the highly practical option of uploading handwritten PDF submissions, recognising that handwritten work remains common in many teaching contexts and continues to offer value for learners.
Joanna then showcased the power of annotated feedback for text-based submissions, where comments are automatically added directly to the student’s work. These annotations can be edited, removed or expanded with the teacher’s own feedback, creating a fast and flexible way to personalise responses.
When sharing feedback with learners, teachers can export it as a PDF or copy it into a Word document for further editing. As Joanna noted, this allows teachers to retain the human element while benefiting from a more efficient workflow.
Putting Teachers and Feedback at the Centre of the Learning Journey
As Joanna highlighted throughout the session, TeacherMatic is far more than a generic AI tool; it is designed specifically for language teaching workflows. The Language Teaching Edition has been built specifically for language educators, with over 50 purpose-built generators designed to make language teaching faster and more effective.
The new ‘Advanced Feedback’ generator is a clear example of this. It reduces the workload of delivering detailed feedback by empowering teachers to provide timely, meaningful feedback at scale.
Rather than replacing professional judgement, the generator strengthens it. Teachers set the criteria, review outputs, refine responses and decide what is ultimately shared with learners. The result is a more efficient workflow that saves time, supports consistency and places teachers and feedback where they belong, at the centre of the learning journey.
Explore the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition
From planning CEFR-aligned lessons and creating high-quality activities to implementing structured feedback workflows and more, the TeacherMatic Language Teaching Edition is built on recognised language teaching methodologies and developed with input from the International House World Organisation, NILE, Eaquals and English UK.
Designed as a safe and ethical AI toolkit for language teachers, it delivers reliability, strong pedagogical alignment and outputs created for use inside and outside the classroom.
Next in the Webinar Series
Make Informed CEFR Alignment Decisions In the Age of AI
🗓 Thursday, 14th May
🕛 12:00 – 12:30 BST (13:00 – 13:30 CEST)
Join award-winning educator Nik Peachey as he introduces the new ‘CEFR Alignment for Teachers: In the Age of AI’ course.
See how to apply CEFR principles in a structured, practical way using TeacherMatic. Learn how to make informed decisions, maintain pedagogical integrity and adapt outputs to different learner contexts while retaining full professional control.
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