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Grading

Review written answers

Choose how many written answers come to you, then read them, leave a note, and mark them. None of it changes a score.

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How-to
Reading time
2 minutes
Last updated
September 26, 2026

Each chapter's practice quiz includes comprehension questions and fill-in-the-blanks that students type in. You choose how many of them come to you. Reading them is feedback, never a mark: no verdict here changes a score or completion.

Choose how many come to you

In Class settings, Answers to review:

SettingWhat comes to you
Nothing, they check themselves (where new classes start)Nothing. Students check their own answers against the key.
Comprehension questions onlyThe written answers, not the fill-in-the-blanks.
Everything they writeEvery written answer and fill-in-the-blank.

Students answer every question either way, and every answer is saved. The setting only decides what waits for you.

Review them

  1. Open Needs you and choose Written answers

    You can narrow it to one chapter or one student.

  2. Open an answer

    You see what they wrote, the answer key, and a box for a note.

  3. Mark it

    Mark as read if it is fine, or Ask for another look to send it back. The badges read Read and Sent back.

Mark all written answers as read clears everything waiting (or just the chapter you're looking at), but leaves anything you sent back alone. In a class set to Graded: First attempt, the buttons are Correct and Incorrect instead.

What students see

Your verdict and note, gathered into one notification every few hours rather than one per answer. If they rewrite an answer you've read, it comes back to you marked Edited since you read it.

Students can check their own answers with Show answer, unless Answer support is set to The class works the problem.

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