Real Fast Reports is currently able to write any reports in English with teachers from the UK, Australia and Singapore currently using it (Picture: Unsplash)
While students have increasingly started using ChatGPT to pass exams, teachers are now using AI software to write their end-of-year school reports for them.
According to The Mail on Sunday, over 1,000 primary and secondary school teachers have signed up to use Real Fast Reports, a software that creates a ‘totally personalised and unique’ report for each pupil at the touch of a button.
Launched by two former teachers, Peter Gravell and Angela Newton, the software claims to produce reports with a ‘personal touch’ for just £10 a year.
The AI-powered report writing tool promises to help teachers finish reports ‘in record time’. All they need to do is to feed in information about a student to create the report.
‘I saved around 2-3 hours on my Year 7 reports alone,’ said one UK secondary school teacher, according to the website.
The software claims to produce reports with a ‘personal touch’ for just £10 a year (Picture: Unsplash)
Another UK primary school teacher said that their ‘favourite feature’ is the ‘comment bank it creates as you write bullet points’.
Real Fast Reports is currently able to write any reports in English with teachers from the UK, Australia and Singapore currently using it.
However, parents are not happy about the use of AI in producing school reports amid growing anger at a series of teaching strikes.
‘Parents are being short-changed and treated with contempt,’ Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign For Real Education told The Mail.
‘AI-generated reports are a lazy and deceitful cop-out which, along with strikes, brings the profession into further disrepute.’
‘Children are expected to deliver individually prepared homework without the help of AI. It shouldn’t be too much for parents to expect the same of schools.’ said parenting campaign group Us For Them.
Tens of thousands of striking teachers and their supporters march in central London on February 1 (Picture: Getty Images Europe)
Once you sign up for a free trial with the company, you get an example for a student ‘Jane’ who is ‘enthusiastic, good reading results, helpful, spelling needs work’.
Once you hit ‘Generate Report’, the tool gives you a summary with the pronouns for the student you input.
Gravell, who founded the software, told The Mail on Sunday that he believed his technology produced better school reports than many pupils currently got.
‘Some teachers just write three reports per class – one good, one medium, one bad – and then copy and paste for the whole class and change the names,’ said Gravell.
‘As experienced teachers and parents, we understand the concerns about AI potentially short-changing families and producing formulaic or bland reports. However, our service balances the efficiency of AI with the personal touch that only a teacher can provide.’
Gravell claims it’s a better alternative to bulk copying and pasting, which some time-pressured teachers may resort to when writing reports.
He added that it was also a ‘tremendous help’ to teachers with dyslexia or those who do not speak English as a first language.
The software produces reports for £10 a year.