Learning management
YAY LMS runs courses, sections and enrolment, the content students read, the assignments and tests they hand in, and a gradebook built only from marks a person has released.
Marking usually happens somewhere else: papers exported from one system, marked in another and uploaded as a spreadsheet at the end, with no account of who changed which mark or when students saw it.
YAY keeps every mark on an appended record with its reason, lets YAY Grader on the Mac or a drafting model propose marks, and shows students nothing until an instructor releases the work.
It is the system a course runs on: who is enrolled, what they read, what they hand in, and the marks and feedback they get back. Done well, it also keeps a clear account of who marked what, and of when students were allowed to see it.
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Run a course in sections by term, with instructors, teaching assistants and students, and units of pages, web links, work and announcements.
Set a written assignment, or a test of multiple-choice, short-answer, short-essay and case questions. Multiple choice is scored from your key the moment a test is handed in.
Mark each question with a reason, write feedback, and release when you are ready. For a test, choose whether students see the mark for each question.
A running grade from the category weights you declare, with letter bands you can replace. Work not yet released does not count.
Students ask to join with a section code, or sign up with one after proving their e-mail address, and an instructor approves. An administrator can enrol a class from a CSV file, previewed before it is applied.
See each question’s difficulty and discrimination, the test’s reliability as Cronbach’s alpha, and options too few students chose to work as distractors. For teaching staff only.
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When marks arrive automatically from a tool or a sync, a provisional grade can reach a student before anyone has looked at it.
A mark seen early is hard to take back, and even “marked, not released” invites the question of what the mark is.
In YAY ERP: In YAY, a student sees nothing about a piece of work, not even that a mark exists, until someone who teaches the section releases it. A teaching assistant marks but cannot release or enrol, and neither YAY Grader nor a drafting model has any way to release. Each release is recorded on the audit trail under the instructor’s own name.
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Language models can propose marks for written answers quickly, but their agreement with human markers is moderate and can be biased.
A mark is a judgement about a person, and someone accountable has to make it and be able to override it.
In YAY ERP: With the YAY LMS Grading add-on, a model drafts marks for each written answer against its rubric, marking standard and model answer, with the student’s name and number replaced by an anonymous code. By default only a model on your own server is used; a vendor’s model is used only if an administrator allows it. A draft is never a mark: it waits until someone who may mark accepts it, and is refused if the answer or the rubric has changed since. Only an instructor of the section can start a run.
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AI-detection scores are often treated as evidence of misconduct.
No tool can tell reliably whether a text was written by a language model, and detectors misjudge writers whose first language is not English.
In YAY ERP: YAY shows teaching staff where two students’ answers to the same question share phrasing, leaving out phrases from the question and the model answer, along with a handful of style signals. They are reasons to read again, never shown to students and never sent to a gradebook, and the screen says so beside them. The shared-phrasing threshold is a setting.
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Institutions keep their own LMS for the course, and a second system usually means two class lists and two gradebooks.
Only the work YAY marks needs to pass through; the course can stay where it is.
In YAY ERP: YAY LMS acts as an LTI 1.3 tool. Students and instructors launch from the institution’s course, instructors link YAY work into it, released scores return to the platform’s gradebook with the feedback as a comment, and the course roster is compared each day. A student who has left the platform’s course is dropped here with their work kept; the roster never enrols anybody. So far this has been shown against a simulated platform, not a named LMS.
A demonstration on a copy of your own records, showing the modules you ask for.
Works with
YAY LMS offers other modules on the same platform a person's enrolments and running grade, released work only. Training does not read them yet; it reads course progress from Tutor LMS.
We would rather you knew before you buy.
No. Instructors and teaching assistants can mark in the LMS itself. YAY Grader Plus is an option: it pulls submitted work through an API, with a token that can only mark in sections its owner teaches, pushes marks back, and can never release them.
Not by default. Drafted marks use a model on your own server unless an administrator allows a vendor’s model; then each answer goes to that company under an anonymous code, with its question and rubric. Without the add-on, or with language models switched off, the LMS calls no model at all.
With the Grading add-on, instructors can load a course’s textbooks and articles as PDFs, and drafted marks check a cited page against that page’s text. A scanned PDF with no text is refused; YAY Grader on a Mac can read it and export a page index the LMS accepts.
By default A, B, C, D and F at 80, 70, 60 and 50 per cent: a generic scale, not any institution’s. Replace it in the settings with your own.
An instructor opens the section to requests, which makes an eight-character code. Students with an account ask to join with it; people without one sign up with it and confirm their e-mail address. Either way an instructor approves before anyone is enrolled. An administrator can also enrol a class from a CSV file.
Yes. It is sold on its own as YAY LMS, on the platform named YAY ERP Education, for WordPress or a standalone server. It is also an add-on in the commercial and not-for-profit editions.
