Grade work and manage results
Open Gradebook from the course's teaching tools. Work from the assessment queue when you need to find submissions waiting for a decision, or inspect the course gradebook to review recorded results.
You need grading permission for the course. A site manager may have a wider view than an instructor assigned to one course.
Assess a submission
- Open the learner's pending work and confirm the course, lesson, and attempt.
- Read the response and inspect attached evidence. Enlarge assignment images when needed.
- Apply the rubric or enter the allowed score.
- Write feedback that explains what was successful and what to change.
- Choose the result or resubmission action offered by the assessment, then save.
- Check that the recorded status and score match your intention.
For practical assignments, see the approval and resubmission guide. For a mixed quiz, some questions may already have automatic scores while others still await your review.
Understand rubric results
An analytic rubric divides the assessment into criteria. Award points for each criterion and use criterion feedback to explain the decision. A holistic rubric, when provided by the installed assessment package, describes the work as a whole.
Versioned rubrics preserve the version used for a recorded assessment. Changing the rubric for future work should not be treated as editing a previous learner's evidence.
Do not round or change a score merely to force the next lesson open. Check the pass mark and use the intended assessment or access-exception workflow.
Read the course gradebook
Grade items can be organized into categories. Available aggregation methods include natural totals, mean, weighted mean, drop-lowest, and extra credit. Their effects differ:
- A total adds the included contributions.
- A mean averages them.
- A weighted mean gives some items more influence.
- Drop-lowest omits the configured lowest contribution.
- Extra credit changes how additional work contributes.
Review the selected method and each item's settings before interpreting the overall grade. Real points, percentages, and letter displays are ways to present the result; changing the display is not a new assessment.
An overall grade and course completion are related but distinct. The course's completion policy still decides whether the learner has finished.
Correct an assessment
Question versions and recorded grade changes preserve the history of what happened. If an error in quiz marking needs correction, use the explicit Regrade controls where available, review the intended scope, and inspect the resulting changes. A question edit alone does not revise existing attempts.
For a graded practical assignment, preserve the previous attempt and assess a requested new submission. Do not ask staff to change database rows to remove an inconvenient result.
Additional grading policies and AI feedback helpers depend on installed providers. Configure their rules and test them on sample work before using them for an assessed course. Do not assume that peer review or a plagiarism-checking service is included simply because manual grading is available.
Use reports and exports when you need a record outside the grading screen.