The COMARKER™ Development Blog


As teachers of academic writing we wanted marking essays to be easier on ourselves and our students. COMARKER is our solution. COMARKER makes it easy for instructors to make comments on written documents. COMARKER remembers our comments and shares them with every marker using the system, so we never again have to type the same comment twice, and our wisdom grows through collaboration. Already we see the power of collaboration making our own marking easier. This blog records our challenges and our progress as we develop COMARKER for everyone.


Working Towards Solving the Problem of Marking Essays

Tag: Albert Lan

Last week our designer, Albert Lan, previewed the designs he was working on for us, and as you will see they were exellent (they are both below).  However both Tom and I felt that they didn’t integrate the core philosphies that have driven the development of our software.

Not Quite There

Not Quite There

Not Quite There V.2

Not Quite There V.2

So we sent him back to the drawing board, and have just recieved a response that is very nearly a perfect fit.

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Merry Boxing Week!

We have now seen some of the great home-page screenshots that Albert Lan, our designer, has created for us.  They are beautiful, calm and collected, but warm, and with a great sense of proportion.  I am really looking forward to seeing the flash integrations, and then launching. His portfolio is amazing, and we feel very lucky that he has had time and energy to commit to our project.
In other news, our lead programmer, Tatiana Malysheva, has been working on giving the users of our program the option of exporting their documents to PDF once they are finished marking them, or having them marked in COMARKER. This will be a pretty big milestone for us, we have been planning to add this function for some time now, but other issues had always popped up in front of it. You can expect a couple of corks popping when Tom lands after his trip to the Orient.

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