New UK assessment platform opens free teacher demos ahead of 2026 school trials
Founder and serving Vice Principal Tom Rye shared the update on LinkedIn, confirming early access to the new AI-powered Fast Feedback platform.
A new UK-built assessment and feedback platform is opening access to free teacher demos and school trials ahead of a wider rollout in 2026, according to a LinkedIn post shared by founder Tom Rye.
Rye took to LinkedIn to confirm that Fast Feedback, a new platform he founded while working in school leadership, is now available for teachers to explore and for schools to trial next year.
Fast Feedback is a new assessment, marking, and reteach platform designed to reduce teacher workload by automating feedback from student responses. Using artificial intelligence and natural language processing, the platform compares each student’s answer to a teacher model and generates individualized feedback, reteach explanations, and follow-up questions in minutes rather than hours.
Platform positioned as alternative to traditional marking
In his LinkedIn post, Rye framed Fast Feedback as a response to the time demands created by traditional marking and feedback policies in schools. Rye said, “Some of you will know I’ve been working on Fast Feedback for a while alongside my school leadership role.” He confirmed that early access is now available ahead of broader school use. Rye added, “It’s now open for free teacher demos and school trials in 2026.”
AI-driven feedback and reteach planning
Fast Feedback supports both typed and handwritten student responses, including photo uploads that are converted to text using optical character recognition. Each answer is analyzed for accuracy, coverage, and depth, with the platform generating what went well, even better if, and targeted reteach content automatically.
Teachers can review and edit feedback before assigning reteach tasks, which students complete online. The system then tracks whether gaps have been addressed, giving schools visibility into whether learning has improved.
Rye explained the platform’s core aim in practical terms, saying, “The aim is simple: reduce marking and reteach planning from hours to minutes, while keeping feedback individualised, measurable, and genuinely useful for pupils and teachers.”
Rye is Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning at Harris Academy Purley, where he oversees assessment, teaching and learning, and digital strategy. His LinkedIn posts position Fast Feedback as a tool shaped by classroom and leadership experience rather than a standalone technology product.
The platform can be used with existing assessments, including freely available Oak National Academy question banks, or with schools’ own materials, completed online or on paper.
Rye concluded, “Marking doesn’t need to take hours.”
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