How Do I Grade Submissions?

Where grading happens

Open your test and go to Submissions. Everyone who has it assigned appears here: in-progress sessions, finished tests waiting on review, and graded ones. Counters at the top summarize how many are submitted and how many still need review.

What grades itself

Multiple choice, multiple select, and true/false questions score automatically against your answer key the moment someone submits, and skipped questions are recorded as zero points. Those totals appear right away without any action from you.

Multiple Select scoring uses partial credit and a small penalty, so a partially correct selection still earns something. See How Multiple Select is graded for worked examples.

Short answers don't. They're marked Needs Review until you grade them.

Grading a submission

Use the three-dot menu's Grade Submission action to open the grading view. Every question has its own tab showing what the person answered alongside your answer key.

• Auto-graded questions display their computed score, and you can override it if the situation calls for it.
• Short answers give you a point input capped at the question's maximum plus a per-question feedback box that goes to the person. Leave it empty and the question's default explanation shows to the participant instead, if one was set.
• A session-level feedback note covers the whole attempt.

Everything saves automatically; the header button alternates between Save Changes and Saved so you always know where you stand.

If they're still taking it

A session that's still active can't be graded yet. You can watch it in real time through Live Monitoring and grade once it's submitted.

After grading

Scores stay private until you release them, unless the test is set to auto-release results. See Publish Results.

For the test-wide picture, average score, best score, grade distribution, and the leaderboard, see Read Test Analytics.