Grade and Return Work
Read what a student handed in, give it a mark and a comment, and send it back. Publishing puts the grade in the gradebook.
Everything is on one screen — the work, the mark, the feedback
You decide when the class sees their grades
Marks reach the gradebook without being typed twice
What You'll Need
An assignment of a class you teach, with at least one submission
How to Grade One Student
Click Learning in the menu, then click your class.
Open the Assignments tab and click the assignment.
In the Submissions card, click the student's row.
A panel opens with what they wrote, any files they attached, and how long they took.
Set the Grade with the slider, or type it in the box beside it. The scale is your school's — out of 20, out of 100, or letters.
Write your Feedback for the student.
Click Save to keep the mark to yourself, or Return to student to send the work back.
Save, Return and Publish
The three actions do different things:
Save
Nothing. The mark is yours until you send it.
Return to student
The work comes back with your feedback. The score stays hidden, and they may revise and resubmit.
Publish
The score appears, and the mark goes into the gradebook. This is final.
Publish is the button at the top of the Submissions card. It sends every graded submission at once and returns the work to those students in the same pass — so for a whole class you grade each one, then publish once.
How to Ask for Another Attempt
Grade the work, write what needs changing, and click Return to student without publishing. The student gets the feedback, can revise, and resubmits. Resubmitting clears the old mark, so you grade the new version rather than inheriting the old score.
What to Do If...
The Save button is greyed out
You have not set a grade yet. A mark needs a score before it can be saved.
The grading form is gone and only the work shows
The grade has been published. Published grades are on record and cannot be changed here — the way back is for the student to resubmit.
Publish says there is nothing to publish
Every graded submission has already been published. Work you returned without publishing is waiting on another attempt, so it is skipped.
The grade does not show up in report cards
Marks reach the gradebook averages only once the assignment is attached to an evaluation event. Ask your administrator to link one.
Tips
💡 Grade everyone first, then click Publish once. The class gets their results together rather than trickling in.
💡 A quiz grades and publishes itself the moment the student hands it in — there is nothing to do here for quiz assignments.
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