🎯 Purpose
Grading a points-based rubric lets you score student work against each descriptor and record a total that flows into your gradebook. This guide walks you through grading from the whole-class page and from an individual student's page.
ℹ️ Grading a rubric that uses a mastery scale instead? Click here.
🔑 Key Functions
Whole-class scoring: Score every student on one page, including applying the same score to several students at once.
Individual grading: View a single student's work to score each descriptor and leave detailed feedback.
Point adjustments: Add or deduct points from a student's total without changing a descriptor score.
Comments and feedback: Leave written comments, or attach audio, video, and file feedback.
Status and portfolio: Set a submission status and save an assessment to a student's portfolio.
✅ Prerequisites
Create a points-based rubric assessment. Need to build one? Click here for step-by-step instructions.
Assign the assessment to at least one class.
🧑🏫 The Whole Class Page
The whole-class page shows every student on a single grid, which is the fastest way to score a full roster.
Grade Students
Step 1: Go to Assigned Assessments, choose the correct class, and select the assessment to open the whole-class grading page.
Step 2: Use your keyboard to enter a score for each descriptor.
ℹ️ Each cell displays the possible range of points for the descriptor. Enter a number within that range. You can enter decimals.
As you enter scores, you may choose to use the following keyboard shortcuts:
Click on the first cell where you want to enter a score, then type the appropriate number from the dropdown options or use arrow keys to select it.
Press Enter/Return to save the score and move down. Press Shift+Enter/Return to move up.
Press Tab to move right, and Shift+Tab to move left.
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To give several students the same score, select their names with the checkboxes on the left, then type a score. It will be applied to everyone selected.
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To clear a score, click into the desired cell and use the backspace button on your keyboard to remove it.
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Additional Fields
In addition to entering scores, the Whole-Class Grading page houses the following assessment information:
Total Score: The total score the student has earned on the assessment across all graded descriptors.
Completion Status: Not Started, In Progress, Turned In, Graded. For more information on how each completion status is determined, click here.
ℹ️ These statuses are given automatically; they are not able to be adjusted manually.
Submission Status and Submitted Timestamp
The Submission column will display the submission status of the assessment. These statuses can be manually adjusted if needed.
Possible options: On Time, Missing, Late, Excused, Excluded. For more information on how each submission status is used, click here.
The Submitted column will display the date and time the student submitted the assessment. The submitted timestamp cannot be adjusted.
Portfolio and Comments:
You can select the star icon to add the assessment to the student's portfolio.
You can leave a comment on the overall assessment by selecting the comment bubble
Grade an Individual Student
View any student's assessment from the whole-class page to score descriptors, adjust points, and leave richer feedback.
Step 1: From the whole-class page, select a student's name to open their individual grading page.
The individual grading page will look slightly different based on If the student has submitted attachments with the rubric or not.
With Student Attachments 
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Step 2: Score each descriptor. Select a score from the options, or type a score directly when a student earns a value that isn't listed.
💡Tip: Select the expand button to read the full description for each descriptor:
Select the collapse button to hide it again:
Step 3: Apply a point adjustment if needed. This adds or deducts points from the total without changing a descriptor score. For example, an adjustment of -2 lowers a total of 13 to 11.
Step 4: Leave comments on the assessment as a whole, on an individual descriptor, or both.
Option 1 in the above example indicates how to leave a comment on the assessment as a whole.
Option 2 indicates how to leave a comment on the individual descriptor.
Step 5: Set the submission status if it needs to change (On Time, Missing, Late, Excused, or Excluded).
Step 6: If the student included attachments on the rubric assessment, they will be visible to the right of the rubric.
Step 7: Use the attachments feature to leave audio, video, or file feedback, the same attachment types available when building the assessment.
Where you begin will look slightly different based on If the student has submitted attachments with the rubric or not. See below:
With Student Attachments  | Without Student Attachments  |