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title: "How Do I Publish Results?"
canonical: https://examlive.net/guides/publish-results
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## Grading vs publishing

Grades stay private while you work. Publishing is the separate step that makes them visible, and what people then see depends on the test's [result visibility](/guides/result-visibility) setting. If someone says they can't see their score, a missing publish is almost always the reason.

## How to publish

From the **Submissions** list of your test, select finished submissions and run the publish action, either for a whole selection at once or one submission through its three-dot menu. The confirmation dialog lists every person with a status:

- **Ready to publish**: included when you confirm.
- **Published**: already out, skipped.
- **Cannot publish**: blocked, with the reason shown. The usual cause is a session that's still active.

Check **Notify** to send everyone included an in-app announcement that results are ready, then confirm. You can also publish straight from a submission's grading page, where the same button reads **Update Results** once results are already out.

## Unpublishing

The matching unpublish action hides scores again until you republish, which makes it the tool for fixing a grading mistake spotted after release: unpublish, adjust, publish once more.

## Publishing with the AI assistant

You can also ask the AI assistant to publish or unpublish results for you. It runs the same actions with the same confirmation dialog, so nothing goes out without your approval. See [Publish Results with AI](/guides/ai-publish-results).