Review ESL assignments without losing track of submissions

Assignment review becomes difficult when active work, late students, and feedback drafts are spread across different classes. The Assignments hub gives teachers one queue for finding the next decision, while each assignment keeps its own submission roster and review workspace.

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Start with work that needs attention

Open Assignments from the teacher workspace. Needs attention brings together assignments that require follow-up. This can include overdue work, submissions waiting for review, and unpublished feedback drafts.

Each assignment card shows its class, activity type, due state, and current counts. Use Remind students when assigned students have not started or submitted their work. The Active, Completed, and Archived tabs help separate current work from finished records.

The Assignments hub shows work across classes and the follow-up available for each assignment.

Narrow the review queue

Search by assignment title or use All classes to focus on one class. Open Filters when you need a more specific queue.

You can filter by assignment type and due date. Choose Sort: Awaiting review to bring assignments with waiting submissions closer to the top. This is useful when several classes submit work around the same time.

Sort by Awaiting review to prioritize assignments that need a teacher decision.

Open one assignment's submissions

Open an assignment to see its submission roster. The review queue shows how many submissions need attention and how many students still need a reminder.

Use Needs review for submitted work that needs a decision. The other filters separate Reviewed, Not started, Late, and Ready to release work. This keeps follow-up states visible without mixing them into one list.

One assignment workspace combines the student roster with the review and grading panel.

Review the submission and prepare feedback

Select a student from the roster. The workspace keeps Student answers and Teacher feedback & grading in the same view. Review the submitted answers, then add a score override only when the auto-graded score needs to change.

Rubric prompts such as Task, Accuracy, Vocabulary, and Organization help you focus the comment. You can write new feedback, reuse a saved comment, or select Save to bank when a comment will be useful again.

Turn on Require resubmission only when the student should make another attempt. A clear feedback comment should tell the student what to change before resubmitting.

Save privately or publish to the student

Use Save draft when the review is not ready for the student. A draft records your work but does not release a new result.

Use Publish feedback when the score and comment are ready. Publishing makes the feedback available to the student and records the grade event. Publish and next is useful when you want to finish one review and continue through the queue.

If published feedback needs a correction, update it from the same review workflow. The newest teacher score becomes the effective score, while the grade history keeps the change visible.

Use Assignments and Gradebook for different jobs

Use Assignments to review submissions, remind students, publish feedback, and request another attempt. Use Gradebook when you want to compare published outcomes across a class.

Keeping these jobs separate makes the next action easier to find. Assignments answers what needs a teacher decision now. Gradebook shows what the published results mean across the class.