Turn off Smart grading for a class and every QuickBooks® upload waits for you. The grader still scores it, but the student sees nothing until you release it. This only affects QuickBooks® work, not quizzes or exams.
Turn it off
Open the class, choose Class settings, and under Exercises and written answers open Smart grading and turn it off. It saves straight away. It only affects work uploaded from now on: nothing already graded is pulled back, and turning it on again doesn't release anything you're holding.
Release a grade
Open Needs you
Held uploads show a Held grade badge and the status Needs release. The Submissions filter shows only uploads.
Open the row and check it
You see what the smart grader found: the score, whether it passes, and any file integrity flags. To see or fix the checks one by one, choose Open submission. See Fix a smart grader score.
Choose Release grade, then confirm
The student now sees their score and the check-by-check results, and earns their Points. If the class is linked to your LMS, the grade posts to its gradebook. No email is sent.
Grades are released one at a time. Each re-upload is held on its own, so a student who uploads three times gives you three rows.
What the student sees while it is held
Turned in, with no score. They can still upload a new file. Holding doesn't stop them finishing the chapter, because uploads never count toward completion.
Questions we get about this
- I fixed a check. Why does the student still see nothing?
- Fixing a check changes the score, not the hold. Choose Release grade in Needs you.
- Can I release the whole class at once?
- No. You release one upload at a time.