Grade and publish results

LessonQ marks multiple choice and true / false questions by itself, the moment a student submits. Written answers and file uploads wait for you. Once they’re marked, you publish the results, and every student sees theirs at once.

In this video · 2:33

1. 0:00Find the papers
2. 0:28Mark an answer
3. 1:07The next paper
4. 1:26Publish
5. 2:04Done

Read the narration

1. 0:05Three students have taken the chapter test. Their written answers need your marks.
2. 0:11Open Exams and Assignments in the sidebar, then Exam Grading.
3. 0:16Every exam is listed here, with how many papers are waiting for marks.
4. 0:22Click the exam to see who has submitted.
5. 0:25The bar at the top counts papers submitted, still to grade, graded, and results not yet published.
6. 0:33Click a student to open their paper.
7. 0:36Multiple choice and true or false are marked already. The paper opens on the first answer that needs you.
8. 0:44Model answer and explanation shows the answer you wrote in the bank.
9. 0:49Type the marks, or click Correct for full marks.
10. 0:53Add a note for the student if you like, then click Save.
11. 0:59The paper is graded.
12. 1:07Back on the list, open the next student.
13. 1:11This answer gets 3 marks out of 5, with a tip.
14. 1:26Results are held until you publish them. Click Publish all.
15. 1:31First, LessonQ shows how far marking has gone.
16. 1:35One paper is still to mark. Mark now opens it.
17. 1:40Mark it, and save.
18. 1:50Now everything is graded. Click Publish all again.
19. 1:54You can also tell students by email or SMS. Leave them off to publish without a message.
20. 2:01Click Publish 3 results.
21. 2:04Every student now sees their score, the correct answers and your notes.
22. 2:10On Nusrat’s own screen: her score, and your note beside it.
23. 2:16You can change a mark later, even after publishing. The student sees it straight away.
24. 2:22More guides are at help.lessonq.com.

Before you start

• Who can do this: the academy owner and admins, and instructors with the Grading & Submissions permission on the course (it’s in the Default, Full access and Grading only presets). An instructor limited to some batches sees only those students.
• What you need: an exam or assignment that students have submitted.

Find the papers waiting for you

1. In the dashboard sidebar, click Exams and Assignments.
2. Click Exam Grading, or Assignment Grading for assignments.

1. Exam Grading. Every exam in the courses you can grade, the ones with the most papers to grade first.
2. An exam. Its course and lesson, and how many papers are to grade, submitted, graded and published, with the deadline. Click it to open its students.

Use the course picker, Search and Filter (grading status, deadline, sort) to narrow the list. The overview at the top counts papers to grade across the academy. For instructors, the dashboard’s Overview also shows submissions waiting, with a Grade button that brings you here.

You can also start from the course: on its Exams or Assignments tab, click View submissions on an exam.

The students of one exam

1. Counts. Submitted, to grade, graded, still in progress, and results not yet published.
2. Publish all. Releases every result at once (see Publish the results).
3. A student. Their status (Not attempted, In progress, To grade, Graded, Published, Late, Expired) and score. Click to open their paper.

Filter shows only students who are to grade, graded or haven’t attempted, results published or not, or attempts that are in progress, expired or late. The overview above the list (Show overview) gives the average score and the hardest questions, the ones students scored lowest on.

Mark a paper

Click a student. Their paper opens on the first answer that needs you.

1. Student’s answer. What they wrote. For a file upload, their files: click one to open it.
2. Model answer and explanation. Opens the answer you wrote in the bank, to mark against.
3. Marks. Type the marks, up to the question’s total. Correct fills in full marks and Incorrect fills in 0; you can still change the number after.
4. Feedback (optional). A note the student sees with their result, when the exam shows Explanations. The paperclip attaches pictures or PDFs, such as their page with your corrections.
5. Save. Saves the marks for this question. It’s grey until you change something.
6. One by one / All, and the question list. Move between questions, or see the whole paper at once. The list shows which questions are marked, marked automatically, left blank, or still to mark.

At the top: the student’s name, when they submitted, how many answers are still to grade (or All graded), whether their result is published, and their score. The score is Provisional until every answer is marked.

1. Read the answer. Open Model answer and explanation if you want it.
2. Type the marks, or click Correct / Incorrect.
3. Add feedback if you like.
4. Click Save. A short Grade saved message confirms it.
5. Move to the next question to mark, or close the paper (✕) and pick the next student.

You can change the marks of any question, auto-marked ones included: for example to give marks for a multiple choice question with a mistake in it. It then shows Marked instead of Auto-graded.

Save before you move on

If you close a paper with marks you haven’t saved, LessonQ asks before throwing them away.

Publish the results

While Hold results until I publish is on (the default), students see nothing until you publish. Publishing is for the whole exam at once, not one student at a time. It releases every finished paper; a paper still in progress stays held until you publish again. An instructor limited to some batches publishes only their own students’ results.

Click Publish all.

1. Grading progress. How many papers are submitted, graded, still to grade, and in progress.
2. Mark now. Each paper still to mark is listed here. Mark now opens it in the grader; come back to Publish all when you’re done.

You can publish before everything is marked: those students see a Provisional score, which updates as you finish marking.

1. Tell students. Switch on Email and/or SMS, for the students and/or their guardians, to let them know their result is out. Each shows how many can be reached. Preview shows the message; Edit for this send changes its wording this once.
2. Publish. Releases the results, for example Publish 3 results. With every switch off, results are published without any message.

Messages use your balance

Each email and SMS comes out of your academy’s email and SMS balance. The window shows what this send will use, and warns you if your balance can’t cover it. The results still publish; the messages your balance can’t cover are skipped. Untick the channels to publish without messages.

When results aren’t held (hold switched off, or a free preview), students already see their results, so the button reads Notify students instead: it only sends the message.

Unpublish

In Exam Grading, the exam’s ⋮ menu has Unpublish all results. Students then see their paper as submitted again, without results, until you publish once more.

Change a mark after publishing

Open the paper, change the marks and Save. The student sees the new score straight away. No message is sent for the change.

Let a student try again

Each student gets one attempt. To give someone another:

1. Open the course and go to its Students tab. Instructors need both Grading & Submissions and Enrollment Management on the course for this (the Full access preset has both).
2. In the student’s ⋮ menu, choose Reset progress and attempts…, and confirm.

Their attempts and lesson progress in that course are cleared, so they can take every exam again. The old attempts aren’t lost: they show in the student’s results history as Before reset.

Caution

Reset is for the whole course: every exam, assignment and item the student had completed in it starts over.

A student’s results over time

Admins can open any student’s profile (click their name) and its Progress tab, which lists every result they’ve had, with search and filters.

What if…

An exam isn’t in Exam Grading. Assignments are under Assignment Grading. Also check the course picker and filters at the top.

I can’t type marks for a student. They’re still answering. You can mark the paper once they submit or their time runs out.

A question shows no marking controls. It isn’t graded (a survey question), so it has no marks.

Publish all is grey. Every result is already published, or no one has submitted yet.

I want to extend a student’s time, or delete one attempt. Neither is possible. Extend Submission ends in the exam settings for everyone, or reset the student’s attempts.

Students can’t see their score after I published. Check what the exam shows in results: the Score box may be ticked only for After close, so it appears after the deadline.