PDF marking, the way you actually mark.
Mark a class set in a fraction of the time. Built around the CAPS symbols you actually use, with the offline-first reliability you need — and a rubric that tallies itself. Sign up early and lock in R50/month, billed annually upfront, before the price moves.
Creative Writing — Grade 11
The history of the cape, with all its winds and weathered shores, has shaped a literature that refuses easy answers.
Writers from this region inheret a landscape of contradiction — beauty that is also brutal, silence that is also speech.
It is in this tension that the strongest voices have emerged, voices that speak not only of place but of the people who have made and unmade it.
Creative Writing /50
Editing tools were not designed for grading.
Generic PDF apps treat every annotation the same. They don't know what SP, exp., or C&P mean — and they certainly don't add up your rubric for you. So you end up retyping the same shorthand on every script and adding totals by hand. Every term. Every class set.
Generic PDF tools don't speak the language of marking.
Built for everyone, optimised for nobody. None of them ship with the symbols essay markers actually use — so you reach for the same six abbreviations a hundred times a class set, by hand.
Adding marks in your head, every script, every term.
Manual addition is where errors creep in — and where complaints come from. Double-checking totals can eat an hour per class set you should be spending on feedback.
The internet dies during the busiest week of the year.
Load-shedding. Slow Wi-Fi. A flaky connection at 10pm the night before marks are due. Your marking tool shouldn't be the bottleneck.
LekkerMark gives you back the hours. One tap drops a CAPS symbol. The rubric tallies itself. You finish the pile in a fraction of the time, with sharper feedback to show for it.
Every shortcut, every keystroke saved.
A focused toolkit, not a Swiss-army knife. Six things done exceptionally well — each one chosen because it shaves minutes off every script.
54 CAPS marking symbols
Every code you actually use, one keystroke away. SP, exp., C&P, L&E, taut., gr., paragraph marks, caret, tick, cross. Live search, pinned row, recent symbols, and shortcuts 1–5 for top stamps.
Five SA rubrics, auto-summing
Creative Writing /50, Transactional /25, Literature Essay /25, Poetry /10, PEEL /8. Score each component — the total updates as you go. Drop the totals stamp anywhere, or let it auto-print top-right of page 1.
Snippet library
The comments you write thirty times per class set, saved once and reused forever. Add, edit, categorise. Click to drop as a free-text comment. Stored per-teacher in your browser.
Stylus & palm rejection
Pressure-sensitive ink. Pen-only mode for iPad and stylus tablets — rest your hand on the screen, the pen does the work. Free text, underline, highlight, strikethrough, caret, circle.
Fully offline
Once the page loads, the whole tool works offline. IndexedDB autosaves as you mark — tab crash, browser close, accidental refresh. Reopen the same PDF and choose Resume.
Privacy by design
Student PDFs never leave your device. They load from your local disk into the browser, get marked, and export back to your local disk. Nothing uploads. POPIA-aligned by architecture.
Three steps. That's the whole loop.
From open to export in minutes, not hours.
Open a PDF from your computer.
Drop a file in, or pick one from disk. It loads into your browser only — no upload, no account, no email confirmation.
Mark with the toolkit.
Stamps, ink, free text, snippets, rubrics. Drag across a misspelled word for the SP-plus-underline gesture. Score the rubric on the side; the total runs itself.
Export.
One click, two files. A flattened PDF with every annotation burned in, plus a JSON sidecar — a machine-readable record any other system can read for grade entry.
Made in South African classrooms — useful in any.
The symbol catalogue is built around the CAPS curriculum, and the rubrics match SA Department of Basic Education subject assessment guidelines. That's an instant fit for SA educators.
But the toolkit itself — stamps, ink, free text, snippets, rubrics — is universal. If you mark PDFs, LekkerMark fits.