AI LESSON PLANNING & MARKING SYSTEM · ZIMBABWE SCHOOLS
From the syllabus to the graded book — a teacher approves every step.
Asolen has two connected jobs: it turns a teacher’s syllabus into practical, real-world lesson and project ideas, and it reads and marks the work students submit, using OCR built around each student’s own handwriting. Nothing reaches a class and nothing counts as a mark until a teacher has approved it.
Add-on
Asolen AI is not sold on its own. It goes on top of ASOFT ERP, and is scoped and quoted with it.
Every generated lesson and every mark is a teacher’s to approve, edit or override.
SUBMISSION MARKED
SchematicForm 2 Mathematics · Exercise 4 · submitted 08:14
OCR read · marked against rubric
- Student
- Form 2B · admission number on file
- Submission
- Photographed exercise book page, 3 questions
- Mark
- 7 / 10
- Held for teacher
- Question 2 — working is unclear in the photo, mark not released automatically
- Marked against
- Form 2 Mathematics · Term 1 · Exercise 4 answer key, v2
- Confidence
- High on questions 1 and 3 · low on question 2
- Logged as
- Sub-2026-08214 · retained for the term
Illustrative submission. A mark below the confidence threshold is held for a teacher, not guessed.
Asolen is our newest product, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Before the first school
Not yet deployed
- What exists today
- The lesson-and-project generator and the OCR marking pipeline: the generator tested against real syllabus documents, the marking tested against real exercise books and their answer keys.
- What the pilot measures
- Whether teachers use a generated lesson as written or rework it, and how its marks compare to a teacher’s own, on the same submissions, side by side — before either is trusted with a live class.
- What we will publish
- The first school’s numbers, named, once we have a full term of side-by-side use.
PRICING
What Asolen AI costs.
Asolen is an add-on to ASOFT ERP rather than a separate subscription, so it is quoted with the school system it runs alongside. Priced on how many students it covers and how many subjects it is set up for, across both lesson generation and marking. Where it has to run somewhere specific — a private region, or your own server — that changes the number and we will say by how much before you commit.
WITH ASOFT ERP
QuotedQuoted alongside ASOFT ERP, scoped to the subjects and forms you start with — not switched on for the whole school on day one.
- Quoted on the same quote as ASOFT ERP
- Syllabus loaded and rubrics configured with your teachers before either starts
- The marking log and the held-for-review report
- Export of every lesson, submission, mark and override at any time
Every generated lesson and every mark is a teacher’s to approve, edit or override.
What moves the number
- Students covered
- Per student whose work is marked, not per teacher reviewing it.
- Subjects configured
- Each subject needs its syllabus loaded for lesson generation and its answer keys set up for marking before either starts.
- Usage volume
- How many lessons are generated and how many pieces of work are marked in a month.
- Where it runs
- The standard hosting is included. A specific region, or an installation on hardware you own, is quoted separately and honestly.
- Connectors
- WhatsApp submission and the ASOFT ERP gradebook are included. Anything else is scoped once.
Every price on this page is also on the pricing page, with the services alongside it.
WHAT IS IN IT
What it does, and what stops it going wrong.
Two jobs, one system: planning the lesson and marking what comes back from it. Neither is allowed to run ahead of a teacher checking it.
Lesson & project generation
- Built from your syllabus
- Every activity starts from the syllabus or curriculum outline a teacher actually uploads, not a generic template for the subject.
- A real scenario, not a demonstration
- Projects are built around an actual problem — in agriculture, business, health, the environment or technology — with a usable outcome, not a model that exists only to be marked.
- Team roles assigned
- Group work comes with roles already organised — project lead, researcher, designer, builder, tester, presenter — the way a real team is structured.
- Sized to the class you actually have
- Every activity is checked against classroom time, resource availability and workload before it is proposed, rather than asking for equipment or hours a school does not have.
- Gets better from what teachers report
- Feedback on whether an activity actually worked shapes what gets generated next time for that subject.
Marking
- Reads each student’s own handwriting
- Recognition is built around a personal handwriting profile per student — letter formation, spacing, slant — that improves the more of their work it sees.
- Reads diagrams as well as text
- Flowcharts, maps, geometric drawings, circuits and labelled diagrams are read and marked alongside written answers, not skipped.
- Marked against a rubric or answer key
- Every mark comes from the specific answer key or marking scheme for that exercise — not a general judgement of whether the work looks right.
- Partial credit on working shown
- Marks the method as well as the final answer, where the rubric allows it, the same way a teacher would.
- Held for review below a confidence threshold
- Anything it is not confident about — unclear handwriting, an answer the rubric does not cover — is queued for a teacher rather than marked anyway.
Oversight & analytics
- Teachers hold final authority
- Every mark, and every generated lesson, can be reviewed, edited, approved or overridden before it is used.
- Full marking log
- Every submission, its mark and any override, kept and exportable for a term or a year.
- Performance and competency analytics
- Trends by student and by class: where marks are dropping, which competencies are weak, and how a student’s handwriting recognition is improving over the term.
- Kill switch
- Turn off automatic marking, or lesson generation, for a class or a subject inside a minute, without a deployment.
WHAT IT CONNECTS TO
Where content comes in, and where results land.
Nothing here asks a school to change how it teaches or how work is submitted. Asolen reads the syllabus already taught to, and the work a phone can already photograph.
Where lessons start
The syllabus a teacher already has, uploaded once per subject
- A syllabus or curriculum outline
- ASOFT ERP timetable and class lists
Where submissions come from
A photo from a phone is the common case, not the exception
- A photo of an exercise book or test paper
- A scanned batch
- PDF submissions
Where results land
Not a second gradebook, and not a second lesson-plan folder
- ASOFT ERP
- A rubric or answer key you supply
Where students and teachers use it
A parent’s phone, not a school computer lab
- A browser
Oversight and Zimbabwean specifics
The parts a head asks about before a mark counts
- Google and Microsoft single sign-on for staff
- Full audit log
- Marked against your own syllabus
- Shona and Ndebele submissions
IMPLEMENTATION
Ten working days, and most of it is proving both halves before they go live.
Generating a lesson and reading a submission are both quick. The valuable part is checking each against what a teacher would have done anyway, before either is trusted unsupervised.
DAYS 1–2
Pick the pilot
One subject and one form: a topic for lesson generation, and an exercise type for marking. Neither is switched on for the whole school at once.
DAYS 3–4
Load the syllabus and set the rubrics
The syllabus for lesson generation and the answer keys for marking, entered and approved by the teacher who owns that subject.
DAYS 5–6
Test against what already exists
Generated lessons are checked against what the teacher would have planned; marking is run against books they have already marked. Both are compared before anything live is touched.
DAYS 7–8
Run alongside the teacher
Live lessons are generated and live submissions are marked, and the teacher reviews every one of both before they count.
DAYS 9–10
Roll out
Automatic use goes live for that subject once overrides and rewrites drop to an agreed level, then the next subject follows the same steps.
Nothing is used with a live class — generated or marked — until a teacher has checked it against what they would have done themselves. That comparison is the pilot, not a formality.
QUESTIONS
The questions a head asks before letting AI near a lesson or a mark.
Does it replace a teacher’s lesson planning?
No. It proposes a lesson or project from the syllabus; the teacher edits it, rejects it, or runs it as given. Nothing reaches a class without that step.
Does it replace the teacher’s mark?
No. Every mark it gives can be overridden, and during the pilot every mark is checked before it counts. Once a subject’s marking is proven against a teacher’s own, on real books, you decide whether it goes straight through or stays reviewed.
How accurate is the marking?
We do not have a published figure yet. That is exactly what the pilot measures — its marks against a teacher’s own, on the same submissions, side by side, before it is trusted with a live class.
What happens with handwriting it cannot read clearly?
It is read as far as it can be, and anything it is not confident about is held for the teacher rather than guessed. We would rather show you a held submission than a wrong mark.
Does it actually get better at reading a student’s handwriting, and how?
Yes. It builds a handwriting profile for each student — letter formation, spacing, slant — from what it has already seen of their work, and recognition for that student improves as it sees more of it.
Does generating lessons get better over time too?
Yes, by a different route: teacher and student feedback on whether an activity actually worked shapes what gets generated next for that subject. That is separate from how the marking improves.
Does our students’ work or syllabus train a model shared with other schools?
No. Both the lesson generation and the marking improve for your school, from your school’s own data. Neither is pooled with what other schools use.
Where is our data stored?
On managed Postgres infrastructure with daily backups, and we will tell you the exact region in writing before you sign. You can export everything at any time, in a standard format.
Can we start small?
Yes. Most clients start with one module or one site and add from there.
What happens if we stop working with you?
You keep your data and your licences per the contract. No hostage-taking.
Something not answered here? Ask us directly.
NEXT STEP
Bring one syllabus, one exercise, and the books you already marked.
We will generate a lesson from your syllabus and mark a set of already-marked work, side by side with what your teachers would have done, before anyone trusts either unsupervised.
Every generated lesson and every mark is a teacher’s to approve, edit or override.