Marking and feedback

Sidebar → Assessments, then open the assessment. The submissions list is where you mark.

Setting the work is covered in Homework, class tests and quizzes.

Who has done what

Each student sits in one of three states:

Anything handed in after the due date carries a Late pill. Late work is not rejected — it is flagged, and what you do about it is your call.

Filter to To mark to see only what is waiting. That is the list to work from; the count next to it is your actual workload.

Two ways of marking, and the difference matters

Which one you get depends on how you set the assessment up.

Simple papers — mark the whole class, save once

A mark and a comment per student, all on one screen. Work down the class, then save once at the end.

This is deliberate. Saving per student meant forty-five clicks and forty-five confirmations for a class of forty-five. Now it is one.

Because it is one save, finish the class before you leave the page. Marks you have typed but not saved are not stored.

Question-by-question papers — each saves itself

If the paper contains any written question, you mark it per question and the total is worked out from your awards. You do not type the total.

These save themselves as you go, and are deliberately not batched with the rest: a half-marked script is not something to sweep into a bulk save. You can leave one part-marked and come back.

Any multiple-choice or fill-in questions on the same paper are already scored before you open it, and their marks are included in the running total you see — so what is on screen is what gets stored.

Auto-marked questions

Multiple-choice and fill-in answers are marked the moment the student submits. You do not need to do anything for them, and you can override any of them.

For multiple choice you also get a per-question breakdown: one row per question showing how the class did. It is the fastest way to find the topic to reteach — a question most of the class got wrong is usually the lesson, not the students.

You can open any student's answer sheet to see exactly what they picked against what was correct. If a student says their mark is wrong, this is the screen that settles it.

Feedback

Every student can have a comment alongside their mark. On simple papers it saves with the batch; on question-by-question papers it saves with the paper.

Leaving a comment blank leaves any existing comment alone. Clearing one means deliberately emptying it, not skipping past it.

Letting students see the answers

If you turned this on when setting the assessment, correct answers become visible after the due date — but only to a student whose own work has been submitted and marked. Nobody sees an answer key by waiting.

Making the work count toward a report card

Tag the assessment with a score component and it counts automatically. Marking it here is entering the score — you do not type it again on the marks sheet. See Entering marks.