Australia and New Zealand National Projects Guide, 2026

• This help guide is for subscribers to Assessing Writing in Australia (AWAP) and Assessing Writing in New Zealand (AWNZ).
• It will help you get the most out of your No More Marking subscription in 2026.
• It's organised into three parts: (1) Comparative Judgement National Tasks; (2) Using AI with Comparative Judgement National Tasks; (3) Comparative Judgement Custom tasks.

Comparative Judgement National Tasks

• As a subscriber to AWA or AWNZ, you can take part in all the national writing tasks for your country. Our national writing tasks follow a set calendar. Many schools take part in them, allowing us to provide you with standardised data.
• Our 2026 assessment calendar is here. It has all the key deadlines for every assessment. For each assessment, there is an upload deadline and a judging deadline. Make sure you know when these are!

Here is an overview of what you need to do for each assessment, with links to more detail.

• We'll release the task before the writing week, and you can download it.
• Upload a list of your student names to the task, and then download and print personalised answer sheets for every student. Read the guide here.
• Get your students to respond to the task on the answer sheets during the writing week.
• Scan and upload their completed responses by the upload deadline.
• Get your teachers to judge the writing during the judging week. The deadline for completing the judging is the Friday of judging week. Here's more advice about organising the judging.
• Download your results reports.

Using AI with Comparative Judgement National Tasks

This year, for the first time, you can enhance your Comparative Judgement assessments with AI. If you want to use these new AI features, you will need to read and accept our new AI GDPR agreement.

• Read our GDPR agreement here.
• Accept the agreement by switching on AI features in your account. Read the guide to doing this here.
• Once you accept the agreement, we will automatically set your national tasks to 90% AI judgements, 10% human. You can change this ratio by following the instructions here.

If you turn on AI features, you will get the following benefits.

• You will be able to add AI judges to your Comparative Judgement writing assessments, which will speed up the time it takes to judge. Our recommended 90%-10% split will cut down your judging time by 90% but retain human oversight of every script. Read our analysis of how long it will take each teacher to judge here.
• You will get AI feedback reports. We have four new PDF feedback reports available: (1) audio feedback; (2) whole-class audio feedback; (3) student report and (4) teacher report. We also have an AI disagreement report. You can access them all via our new interactive dashboard.
• When your human teachers are judging, they will be able to toggle between handwritten and transcribed scripts. Read more here.

Comparative Judgement Custom Tasks

• As well as our national tasks, you can set up custom Comparative Judgement tasks where you can choose your own task and your own deadlines.
• Read more about setting up non-AI custom tasks here. These are free.
• Subscribers can now purchase credits that will allow them to set up AI custom tasks. You can read all the details of how this works here.

Updated on: 19/01/2026