TextScan helps teachers identify and highlight the positive features already present in children's writing, mapped against the Teacher Assessment Framework — so less time is spent hunting for evidence and more time is spent acting on it.
TextScan lives inside Google Docs — where your students' writing already is. No uploads, no new platform, no training day.
One click reads the piece against the Teacher Assessment Framework and finds the evidence — what's genuinely there, framed positively and ready for moderation.
A clean, printable report for the student, the parent's evening folder, or your book scrutiny. Evidence you can stand behind.
That's not a shortcut on judgement — you still decide what it means. It's a shortcut on the finding, formatting and writing-up that was never teaching in the first place.
Try it on one essay, freeStart with the 14-day free trial from the Google Workspace Marketplace — no card needed. Every paid plan begins with you already knowing it works.
TextScan today is built for primary writing against the TAF. Two expansions are in development now — early adopters shape them:
Assessment-objective mapping for GCSE English, board-agnostic — the same evidence-first approach, pointed at the AOs.
Flight-path features to track KS3 writing on its journey towards GCSE.
English or writing lead? The fastest way to evaluate TextScan is to give it to your year team free for a week and compare reports in your next staff meeting. If it doesn't save your team hours in week one, bin it — you've spent nothing.
Get it for your teamVerified by Google. TextScan is a verified Google Workspace add-on — it runs inside your school's own Google environment, and pupils' writing never leaves it. Install it straight from the official Marketplace listing, free for 14 days.
View on the MarketplaceBuilt by a teacher, not a tech company. Arjun Davé — 7 years in London primaries, QTS, UCL PGCE. TextScan is a verified Google Workspace add-on: your students' writing stays in your school's Google environment.