Follow an exam: who submitted, who didn't

Once an exam or assignment is in a course, the course page keeps count for you: when it opens and closes, whether students can start it, how many have handed in a paper, and how many papers still need your marks. This guide covers those lists. Marking and releasing results is in Grade and publish results.

In this video · 1:30

1. 0:00The Exams tab
2. 0:27Statuses
3. 0:52Submissions
4. 1:04Assignments
5. 1:12What students see

Read the narration

1. 0:05Once an exam is out, the course page tells you who has taken it, and who hasn’t.
2. 0:12On the course page, open the Exams tab. Every exam in the course is a row.
3. 0:19Each row shows when it opens and its deadline.
4. 0:23Submitted counts the papers handed in. To grade is how many still need your marks.
5. 0:29Its status: Open now, the day it opens, or Closed after the deadline.
6. 0:35This one is Not ready: students can’t start it.
7. 0:40Here, its question bank has no questions yet. Add some, and it opens.
8. 0:45The ⋮ menu opens an exam’s settings and its questions.
9. 0:52To see each student, click View submissions.
10. 0:56Nusrat and Tanvir have handed in their papers. Rafiq hasn’t yet.
11. 1:01You can mark a paper right here, as in Grade and publish results.
12. 1:07Assignments have their own tab, with the same columns.
13. 1:15And Rafiq sees the test still to do, with its deadline.
14. 1:20More guides are at help.lessonq.com.

Before you start

• Who can do this: the academy owner, admins, and instructors on the course.
• Where: open the course page. Exams have their own Exams tab, and assignments an Assignments tab. Staff always see both; students see a tab once there’s something in it for them.

The Exams tab

Every exam in the course is a row, whichever lesson it sits in.

1. Opens and Due. When students can start it, and its deadline. A dash means no date: open from the start, or no deadline.
2. Status (below).
3. Submitted. Papers handed in, out of the students who can sit it.
4. To grade. Papers with answers still waiting for your marks (written answers and file uploads).
5. View submissions (below).

Under each title: the lesson it’s in and, for an exam, its time limit. Search finds an exam by its title.

Statuses

Status	What it means
Open	Students can start it now.
Opens date	It opens on that date. Until then students see it as Scheduled, and can’t start it.
Closed	The deadline has passed, and late submissions aren’t allowed.
Hidden	You’ve hidden it from students.
Not ready	Students can’t start it at all. Point at the status to see why.

An exam is Not ready when:

• its question bank has no questions yet. Add some to the bank, and it’s ready at once;
• its question pool can’t be drawn: it’s set to pick more questions than the bank has, of a kind. Fix the draw rules in its settings (see Add an exam or assignment).

A row’s menu

The ⋮ menu has Exam settings (dates, timer, results), Edit questions (its question bank), Preview as student, and Delete item. Deleting removes it from the lesson along with the students’ attempts on it; the question bank stays in your library.

Who submitted, who didn’t

View submissions opens the exam’s own list of students, with each one’s paper:

1. A student who has submitted.

• Every student who can sit it is listed, so a student who hasn’t submitted yet stands out next to those who have.
• Click a paper to mark it. It’s the same marking screen as Exams and Assignments → Exam Grading, explained in Grade and publish results.

The Assignments tab

Assignments have the same columns, statuses and View submissions, without a time limit.

What students see

A student opening the course’s Exams tab sees their own standing on each one instead: Not started, In progress, Submitted, Graded, Late (past the deadline, late work still accepted), Missed, or Scheduled, with its deadline.

1. The test still to sit, with its deadline.

Note

A score shows only once the result is released and final. Until then a student sees Submitted, even when part of the paper is already marked. See Grade and publish results.