eMarking Assistant will save you time when marking assignments or grading papers using any version of Microsoft Word for Windows. It allows you to easily create, store, insert and modify detailed reusable comments containing text, links, images and even audio.

These reusable comments are selected from a structured list by either clicking or typing the first few characters. The text of the highlighted comments is displayed so there is no need to remember cryptic codes. These reusable comments can be saved to comment banks and distributed to others. Comment banks can be harvested from a folder of assignments that have been marked using Word track changes and Word comments.

eMarking Assistant will also create automated marking rubrics allowing you to use function keys or toolbar buttons to highlight performance standards, record, increase or decrease marks, and then add and rescale the marks. The performance standard and mark can also be easily inserted as comments into the margin of the assignment. eMarking Assistant can be easily installed into any version of Microsoft Word for Windows in less than a minute. After you install it, you will see floating toolbars which have the same functions in all versions of Word.

The Preparation toolbar allows you to harvest, load, save and manage reusable comment banks and also turn on and off common features of Word used in grading, for example show or hide spelling or grammar mistakes, turn revision tracking on or off and show or hide comments or markup.

eMarking Assistant also provides other features such: search for the selected phrase using Google web, book, or scholar search; highlighted all occurrences of the selected phrase, reuse the selected phrase as a comment or return the current document using email. The eMarking Assistant site contains video demonstrations and detailed tutorials, and downloadable comment banks.

For installing eMarking Assistant, follow these steps:
· Download the .DOC file.
· Open the document and click the button on the first page to confirm that macros are enabled, if necessary enable macros
· Click the Install eMarking Assistant button to install eMarking Assistant
· Click Yes to install the default comments
· Word will close once the installation is complete