IB MYP Feedback Writer for Teachers

You know the math. Five classes, 25 students each, four criteria per assessment. That's 500 criterion-level feedback comments every summative cycle. And that's before report card season adds another 60+ hours of writing full paragraphs for parents and admin.

According to Learnosity's 2025 educator survey, 62% of teachers rate grading and feedback as the single worst part of their job. Not planning. Not behaviour management. Writing feedback.

We built the Koncepts Feedback and Comment Writer to cut that time in half without losing quality, without losing your voice, and without generating the kind of generic AI output that makes you cringe.

This post walks you through how it works, mode by mode.

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Why We Built This

The numbers are brutal:

• 500+ criterion-level comments per assessment cycle
• 60+ hours per term spent on report card comments alone
• 62% of teachers rate grading/feedback as the worst part of their job (Learnosity, 2025)
• 75% say they'd use an AI tool if it genuinely halved the workload

We looked at what already exists. SchoolReportAI is IB-aware but doesn't go to MYP strand level. IB Genie is essentially a ChatGPT wrapper with no curriculum structure. MagicSchool has zero IB awareness whatsoever.

Nothing on the market writes feedback at the strand level, using IB command terms, calibrated to MYP year groups. So we built it.

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Three Modes, One Tool

The Feedback Writer has three distinct modes, each designed for a different moment in your week.

Assessment Feedback

This is your post-summative or post-formative mode. You enter scores and observations for a specific piece of work, and the tool generates targeted feedback per criterion. The student reads this directly.

Report Comment

End-of-term mode. The tool generates a full paragraph covering all criteria across the reporting period. Parents and admin read this on the report card.

Quick Comment

This is where roughly 80% of daily usage lives. Rapid one-to-two sentence comments per criterion, generated between classes. For students, for your own notes, for quick formative check-ins.

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Assessment Mode: How It Works

Here's the full walkthrough.

Select your student. Choose from your roster with fuzzy search, or just type a name manually. Subject and year group pre-fill from your profile, so you're not re-entering "MYP4 Sciences" every time.

Set up the assessment. Enter the topic or unit name. Select which criteria are being assessed, since not every task hits all four. Enter criterion scores using the 0–8 stepper for each one.

If you're creating the assessment itself as well, the Koncepts MYP Assessment Generator builds criterion-aligned questions, rubrics, and mark schemes around the same MYP structure.

Add your observations. This field is optional but powerful. Type something like "Good recall but hypothesis was vague" or "Strong analysis, weak citation of sources." These observations get woven directly into the generated feedback.

Choose tone and length. Three tone options: Encouraging, Balanced, or Direct. Three length options: Brief, Standard, or Detailed. Pick what fits the student and the context.

Generate. Hit Cmd+Enter. Feedback streams in criterion by criterion as separate cards.

What You See After Generation

Each card shows:

• The criterion label and score, for example, "Criterion B — 5/8"
• Strand-specific feedback text
• A per-card Copy button

Below each card, you'll find refinement pills: [Shorter] [Longer] [Warmer] [Stricter]. One click adjusts the output without touching the form. No re-expanding panels, no lost inputs.

Copy individual cards and paste them into separate ManageBac criterion fields, or hit Copy All for everything at once. When you copy a card, a toast confirms: "Criterion A copied."

One more thing: the form never collapses on desktop. You can tweak scores, adjust observations, and regenerate without re-expanding anything. The whole interface stays open and editable.

Every generation auto-saves to the student's feedback history. Come report season, you can look back at what you wrote in October.

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What Makes the Feedback Actually Good

Generic AI feedback is worse than no feedback. "Good effort, keep it up" helps nobody. Here's what the Feedback Writer does differently.

It references specific IB strands by number. Not "you need to improve your investigation" but "In strand ii, your hypothesis lacks a testable independent variable."

It uses IB command terms when describing what the next achievement level requires. If a student scored a 5 and needs to reach a 6, the feedback uses the exact verbs from the MYP rubric for that band. The same criterion and achievement-level logic also sits behind Koncepts' MYP rubric workflow.

It never uses generic phrases. "Good effort," "needs improvement," "well done" — these are blacklisted from generation. Every sentence references something specific about the student's work or the criterion expectations.

It uses second person for student-facing feedback. "You describe the pattern clearly, but you haven't yet explained why it occurs." Natural, direct, the way you'd actually talk to a student.

It's calibrated per subject. The system includes three few-shot examples per subject, low, mid, and high scoring, to ensure the output matches realistic MYP feedback patterns.

Temperature is set to 0.4. Accurate enough for criterion alignment, varied enough that student #14 doesn't read identical phrasing to student #7.

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Report Comment Mode

Report season is its own kind of exhausting. This mode handles the shift from criterion-level feedback to holistic summary paragraphs.

Additional Fields

Beyond the standard inputs, Report Comment mode asks for:

• Reporting period, such as Term 1 or Semester 1
• Key strengths across the term
• Areas for growth
• Optional: include ATL skills mention
• Optional: include Learner Profile reference

What You Get

A single continuous paragraph with a live word count, targeting around 100 words. Written in third person for the parent/admin audience.

"Aisha demonstrates strong analytical skills across Criterion A, particularly in strand ii where she consistently..."

Tone options shift here: Formal, Warm, or Direct.

You can export Report Comments as CSV for batch upload into your school's reporting system. Write 25 comments, export the file, upload once.

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Quick Comment Mode

This is the mode most teachers open between classes. Here's what the output actually looks like:

A (5): Solid content knowledge. Push toward explaining WHY, not just WHAT. B (3): Hypothesis needs scientific reasoning. Use "If...then...because". C (6): Good data processing. Evaluate your method more critically. D (4): Engage with ethics. Pick a real-world application and discuss two perspectives.

No cards, no fluff. Four lines, one Copy All button, move on.

You enter scores, optionally add a one-line observation, and get back concise, strand-aware comments in seconds. It's designed for the moment between Period 3 and Period 4 when you're scribbling notes on a rubric sheet.

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The Grading Stack Workflow

Here's the fastest loop for getting through a full class set.

1. Fill the form once: subject, topic, criteria being assessed, tone, length.
2. Enter the first student's name and scores. Generate. Copy.
3. Change only the student name and scores. Generate. Copy.
4. Repeat.

The form stays filled between generations. Only the student and their scores change. Everything else persists.

This is how you get through a stack of 25 papers without burning out. The cognitive load drops because you're not re-making decisions about format, tone, or criteria selection for every single student. You just update what's different and go.

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Exports

Once you've generated feedback, you have several options for getting it out of Koncepts and into your workflow.

• Copy per card / Copy All — paste directly into ManageBac, Toddle, or any LMS
• PDF — formatted with student name header, useful for printing or parent meetings
• Word (.docx) — for report season when you need to edit in a shared document
• CSV (Report Comment mode only) — for batch upload into your school's reporting system
• Share via link — generates a read-only URL for co-teacher moderation or department review

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Try It

We're not trying to replace your judgment. You still set the scores. You still add your observations. You still know that Aisha needs encouragement and that Marcus responds better to direct challenge.

The tool just turns those inputs into properly worded, strand-specific, IB-aligned feedback in seconds instead of minutes.

Start with Quick Comment mode. It's where most teachers live, and it takes about 15 seconds to see whether the output matches your expectations.

Your feedback expertise isn't going anywhere. We're just handling the typing.