Marka vs WebPA
Marka
markaph.appWebPA
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| Figure | Marka | WebPA |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · Peer Assessment Software | 8.4 (#2) | 6.9 (#13) |
| Audience | Marka describes itself as built by teachers for teachers and targets classroom group-work peer evaluations. | The project describes WebPA as an online peer assessment tool for higher education. |
| Purpose | Marka is peer evaluation software for teachers that collects rubric-based student feedback and generates consolidated reports. | WebPA is an online peer assessment system for student teams, using peer and self-grading to help determine individual grades from a group mark. |
| Support | The public contact route is email for questions, feedback and upgrade requests. | The project site says Loughborough's support for WebPA has ended and points users to archived documentation and a JISC mailing list for community support. |
Plans
In their own words
Marka
Marka is peer evaluation software for teachers collecting rubric-based feedback on classroom group work and producing consolidated reports. Teachers can create reusable analytic or holistic rubrics with their own scoring scales and criterion indicators. Students see aggregate results and unattributed public notes, not individual peer scores. Results and notes stay hidden until at least three evaluators submit, unless a teacher overrides the threshold for a student. A teacher-only Peer Integrity Engine flags patterns such as free-riding, mismatched self-ratings, rushed scoring, cliques, and rater bias; it does not change scores automatically. Reports can include dashboards, CSV exports, cross-period comparisons, printable reports, and gradebook-ready exports. Teachers import rosters from CSV, and students enter with teacher-issued seven-character codes without creating accounts or providing email addresses. Marka works without an LMS connection and is available on the web and through a lightweight Android app. Its free Basic plan supports up to 3 classes and 50 students per class, with full report preview only.
WebPA
WebPA is an open-source, self-hosted web system for peer and self-assessment in higher-education group work. It combines peer assessments, self-assessments, and a group mark to calculate individual grades, with rubric scoring and moderation tools. Administrators download the application and configure a local instance, database credentials, and environment variables. The latest version lists PHP 7.4 or 8.0 with MySQLi, Sessions, and XML extensions enabled; Composer and the repository release page provide download routes. Standard installation does not include LTI support, but a separate connector can link WebPA with LTI-compliant environments such as Blackboard Learn, WebCT, and Moodle. Where services are available, it can synchronize memberships, groups, grades, outcomes, settings, enrolments, and timestamps; Moodle and Canvas membership and group services can use their APIs. WebPA is free and licensed under GNU GPL version 3. Loughborough support has ended, with archived documentation on GitHub and community support directed to the JISC mailing list.