Mark each student’s work, with or without a rubric, then release every grade at once so students can see them.
Grades you give are drafts: only the people teaching the course see them, and the gradebook doesn’t count them.
Students see nothing until you release the grades, all at once. Owners, teachers and assistants can grade; owners
and teachers release.
Open a published assignment and choose the Submissions tab. Every student on the course is listed, with a status.
The line under the heading tells you what’s left before you can release.
The Submissions tab once the deadline has passed.
Status
Means
Submitted / Late Submission
Handed in, on time or after the due date. Ready to grade.
Pending
Nothing handed in yet, and there’s still time.
No Submission
The deadline has passed and nothing came in.
In person
An in-person assignment: grade it from the work you collected.
Graded
You’ve saved a grade. Students can’t see it yet.
Review
Lena Agent graded it and you approved it without opening it. Check it before you release.
Choose the student’s name, or View submission in the row’s menu. Their text and files open, with their
matric number and email at the top.
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Choose Grade
The grade column opens beside the work. A grade you’ve already saved shows Edit grade.
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Score the work
With a rubric, pick a level for each criterion (or type points), and add a Comment if you like.
Without one, enter the Score, from 0 to the assignment’s marks.
A rubric grade: one level per criterion, a comment, and general feedback.
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Add feedback and save
Write any General feedback, then choose Save (or Save score without a rubric).
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Move to the next student
The bar at the bottom shows how many are graded, such as “4 / 20 graded”. Use Prev and Next to move along
the class.
If you move on with scores you haven’t saved, Lena asks “Leave without saving?”. Choose Stay, or Leave to lose
them. Tick “Don’t ask again while I’m grading” to stop the question.
If your school has Lena Agent, the rubric form has Suggest with AI. Lena reads the
student’s work and fills a level, points and a comment for each criterion, with a line on why. A note says “Lena
suggested these scores.” Change what you disagree with, then choose Save: nothing is saved until you do.If you’d already started the grade, Lena asks whether to Fill only what’s empty or Replace with Lena’s
suggestion. To have Lena mark the whole class at once, see marking with Lena.
When you ask Lena Agent to mark a class and approve its grades without opening each one, those
grades are saved in Review. They count as graded, but you haven’t checked them yet. You can’t release until every
one is cleared. To clear them:
Open the submission, check it, and save any change, or choose mark it reviewed in the note at the top.
Choose Mark as reviewed in a row’s menu.
Switch the list to Review, then choose Review all to clear every one without opening them.
The Insights tab shows how the class is doing, before or after you release, and is a good place to decide what
to go over again.
With a rubric: the class average, where the lost marks went, and a row per criterion. “Most marks lost” marks
the weakest. Open a criterion to see who is on each level. Once the grades are released, Download saves them,
criterion by criterion, as an Excel file.
Without a rubric: the average, the spread of marks in bands, and who is Not graded yet. Grade opens the
next student to grade.
If your school has Lena Agent, it can plan what to go over again with the class, with one
short activity. Without a rubric, choose Plan a reteach. With one, open a criterion the class found hard and choose
Plan a reteach on …. The plan opens in a chat.
