Ask Lena Agent to mark an assignment against its rubric, approve the grades it’s sure of, and check the rest one by one.
Lena Agent can mark a whole class against your rubric. It reads each submission, picks a level for every criterion,
writes feedback, and tells you which marks it’s unsure of. Nothing is saved until you approve it, and students see
nothing until you release the grades.
In the sidebar, choose AI Agent. Pick the course with All courses under the message box, then say which
assignment to mark. Name it as it appears in the course.
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Let it work
Lena works through the submissions. The card shows “N of M graded” with a bar, and you can start on the first ones
before it finishes.
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Read the summary
The card says how many it’s sure of and how many have a mark it’s unsure of. Under For your review, each
criterion it doubted is listed with how many students it affects and the question it had, such as “Your rubric
doesn’t say if run-ons count”.
The grading card: what Lena is sure of, and what it wants you to look at.
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Approve the ones it’s sure of
Approve N saves the grades Lena is sure of, without opening each one. They’re saved in Review: you still
check them before you can release.
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Review the rest
Review N opens the students it was unsure of, one at a time: the total, Lena’s reasoning, a score and comment
for each criterion, and the general feedback. A criterion it doubted says Needs a look.
Approve saves the grade as Lena gave it, and moves to the next student.
Change lets you set each criterion’s points and edit the feedback. Choose Save to keep your version.
The arrows move between students without saving.
One student, opened: each criterion’s score, how sure Lena is, and the feedback the student will read.
When every grade is saved, the card says how many are Graded, In Review and Not graded. Review N takes
you through the ones you approved all at once. Choose Looks right on each.Not ready to decide? Skip saves every undecided grade in Review, so you can check them later from the assignment’s
Submissions tab.
Once nothing is left in Review and the deadline has passed, the card’s Release grades asks you to confirm, then
students can see their grades and feedback. Releasing can’t be undone. Until then the button says what it’s waiting
for, such as “You can release after the deadline”.You can also clear Review and release from the assignment itself: see
grades in Review.
When you’re grading in the assignment’s Submissions tab, Lena can fill in one student’s rubric grade for you.
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Open the submission and choose Grade
The rubric form opens beside the student’s work.
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Choose Suggest with AI
Lena reads the work and fills a level, points and a comment for each criterion, with a line on why. Choose
Cancel to stop it.
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Check it and save
A note says “Lena suggested these scores.” Change anything you disagree with, then choose Save. Nothing is saved
until you do.
If you’d already started the grade, Lena asks first: Fill only what’s empty keeps your scores, comments and
feedback; Replace with Lena’s suggestion overwrites them.
It needs a rubric. Lena marks against the rubric’s criteria and levels. You can’t add a rubric to an assignment
once it’s published. Grade that one yourself, or ask Lena to draft a rubric
for the next one.
The assignment must be published, with marks that match the rubric’s total.
Only work handed in online can be read. “There’s no work handed in online for Lena to read” means there’s
nothing to suggest from. If Lena couldn’t open a file, the note says so. Check that one yourself.
You always decide. Grades are never saved, and never released, without you, whatever
approval setting you’ve chosen.
It uses your allowance. Marking a class and each Suggest with AI count towards your
daily allowance.
If it stops partway, the card says “Stopped at N”. The ones it marked are fine to review. Choose Retry to
mark the rest.
