TeacherMatic Community Webinar: AI Feedback, Coaching and Three Years of Innovation

As part of our termly TeacherMatic Community Webinar series, educators from across schools, colleges and universities recently joined us to explore the latest developments on the platform and share insights from across the education community.

These webinars are designed to keep the TeacherMatic community informed about new features, ongoing research and the broader direction of the platform.

The Spring 2026 webinar brought together several speakers to discuss important developments including platform updates, coaching tools, AI-supported feedback and the wider learning technology ecosystem surrounding TeacherMatic.

It also provided an opportunity to reflect on an important milestone.

This year marks three years since the launch of TeacherMatic.

Watch the full TeacherMatic Community Webinar

You can watch the full recording of the webinar below.

A platform that continues to evolve
The webinar began with a series of technical updates to the platform, presented by members of the TeacherMatic development team.

Since its launch, TeacherMatic has grown significantly. What began with around 15 generators designed to support lesson planning has expanded into a platform that now includes more than 150 generators.

These tools support a wide range of workflows across education including lesson planning, curriculum design, assessment, employability and feedback.

Much of this development has been shaped by feedback from educators themselves.

TeacherMatic follows a co-design model, meaning that ideas shared by the community often become the starting point for new tools and improvements to the platform.

This close collaboration with educators remains one of the key reasons the platform continues to evolve in ways that respond directly to the realities of teaching and learning.

Supporting coaching conversations with learners

One area explored during the webinar was how TeacherMatic can support coaching conversations with learners.

Coaching is becoming an increasingly important part of educational practice, particularly when supporting learners as they develop confidence, resilience and career direction.

Rather than simply providing answers, coaching conversations encourage learners to reflect on their progress and take ownership of their development.

The Coaching Generator within TeacherMatic helps educators structure these conversations by generating reflective prompts and coaching questions that guide meaningful dialogue.

This ensures that coaching sessions remain focused, structured and supportive while still allowing educators to adapt conversations to the needs of individual learners.

This topic was explored in much greater depth during a recent TeacherMatic Deep Dive session with Chartered Coaching Psychologist Jacqueline Weeks, where we examined how coaching approaches can support learners navigating key transitions in education and employment.

You can also read our related blog on coaching in education and how AI can support meaningful conversations without replacing the human element.

AI and feedback: insights from the Jisc pilot

One of the most anticipated parts of the webinar focused on the role of AI in marking and feedback.

TeacherMatic is currently involved in a Jisc pilot exploring how AI tools can support the feedback process in education.

Marking and feedback remain one of the most time-consuming responsibilities for educators, yet they are also one of the most powerful drivers of student learning.

The Jisc project is exploring how AI can support educators during this process while maintaining the professional judgement and oversight that assessment requires.

Early insights suggest that AI may help educators provide more frequent and more detailed feedback, rather than simply reducing the time required to produce it.

This could allow learners to receive feedback earlier in the learning process and across more stages of their work.

Launching the Advanced Feedback Generator

During the webinar, Peter demonstrated the Advanced Feedback Generator, a new development within TeacherMatic designed to support the marking workflow.

The generator allows educators to upload student assignments and generate structured feedback aligned with assessment criteria such as learning outcomes or grading rubrics.

One particularly powerful feature is the ability to link feedback directly to sections of the student’s work.

TeacherMatic analyses the assignment and generates contextual feedback suggestions which educators can then review, edit and refine.

This ensures that the educator remains fully in control of the final feedback while significantly reducing the time required to produce detailed responses.

Importantly, the system is designed to support human oversight rather than replace it, keeping professional judgement at the centre of the process.

The TeacherMatic ecosystem and Avallain

The webinar also included a presentation exploring the wider TeacherMatic ecosystem within the Avallain Group.

Participants were introduced to the next generation of learning platform technology being developed by Avallain and how TeacherMatic sits within a broader family of digital learning tools.

This part of the session highlighted how TeacherMatic is not developing in isolation. It is part of a wider ecosystem focused on interactive, personalised and scalable digital learning experiences.

As this ecosystem continues to develop, it creates exciting possibilities for the future of content creation, delivery and AI-supported educational workflows.

Three years of the TeacherMatic journey

The final part of the webinar reflected on the TeacherMatic journey over the past three years.

What began as a small collection of AI-powered generators has grown into a platform used by educators across many institutions and countries.

More importantly, this growth has been shaped by the TeacherMatic community itself.

Ideas shared during webinars, training sessions and institutional partnerships have directly influenced the creation of many new generators.

This co-design approach ensures that TeacherMatic continues to develop tools that respond to the real challenges faced by educators.

As the platform continues to grow, the community will remain central to its future development.

Continuing the conversation

The session concluded with an open discussion where members of the community shared questions, ideas and reflections on the future of AI in education.

These conversations remain an important part of how TeacherMatic evolves.

By continuing to listen to the experiences of educators, the platform can keep developing tools that support teaching, learning and assessment in meaningful ways.