LMS publishing is a final workflow step, not a first-pass grading action. Make sure the assessment and rows are eligible before you push anything outward.
Step by step
- Open the assessment detail page after grading is complete.
- Confirm that the assessment is LMS-linked and that at least one row is in a publishable state.
- Click Publish grades from the assessment actions if you want to publish the class, or publish one student from the single-submission page if you only need one row. For Google Classroom assignments, Choose what to send to Google Classroom in the assessment settings: Score and feedback updates the final grade and shares the feedback link, while Feedback only (0 placeholder) shares the link and publishes 0 as a student-visible placeholder final grade so Classroom marks the work Graded. The teacher must replace the zero manually in Classroom. Classroom can still allow students to resubmit graded work; this cannot be disabled per submission through the Classroom API.
- Review the confirmation modal before you continue.
- Confirm the publish action and wait for the LMS update to complete.
- Refresh the table and verify that the affected rows moved into Published.
You should see
Eligible grades are pushed back to the connected LMS and the publish state updates in Classwise.
Keep in mind
- For manual publishing, choose Publish grades in the assessment actions, review the confirmation, and confirm. This publishes eligible completed rows now. The confirmation has no date or timing picker.
- Scheduling is a separate assessment-settings workflow: enable Auto-publish scores & feedback, click its Publish timing clock, choose immediately, due date, or scheduled date and time, then save the assessment. Do not use the manual Publish grades action when you intend to wait until a scheduled time.
- The clock beside Auto-publish scores & feedback controls when scores and available feedback are sent to the LMS. It does not schedule Email all feedback, which is a separate delivery action.
- For Google Classroom, Feedback only publishes the Classwise feedback link and uses 0 as a student-visible placeholder final grade because Classroom requires a numeric assigned grade for Graded status. Replace the zero manually in Classroom after the final Classwise publish. Classroom can still allow students to resubmit graded work; Classwise cannot disable that per submission through the Classroom API.
- Due-date and scheduled publishing use a durable delayed queue message and normally run within one scheduled-publish worker cycle after the target time.
- Rows that need review are not auto-published; review and approve them before sending results outward.
Keep in mind
Question-type Google Classroom assignments need email feedback if teachers want students to receive richer feedback outside the LMS score push. Automatic corrections require a recorded previous score publication; older records or later changes to the LMS assignment, Accuracy/Completion selection, or point allocation stay manual. When a safe correction cannot be confirmed, use Publish grades.
Common blockers
- Google Classroom question assignments do not support feedback-link publishing through the LMS path.
- If the assessment is not LMS-linked, Publish grades should not be your next action.
- If auto-publish is set to Due date but the assessment has no due date, Classwise will not publish until a valid timing choice is saved.
Teachers can open a student’s feedback link directly from a Completed, Published, or Emailed status pill to see the student-facing feedback page.
Step by step
- In the assessment table, find the student’s Status pill. You can also use the status pill beside the student’s name in the teacher feedback screen (the single-student grading page), including the expanded PDF view.
- Hover over Completed, Published, or Emailed. The pill highlights and shows the Student view tooltip in both locations.
- Click the pill to open that student’s feedback link in a new browser tab. You can also focus the pill with the keyboard and press Enter or Space.
Keep in mind
- Missing, Not graded, Needs review, In progress, Cancelled, and Error pills do not open student feedback and do not show the Student view tooltip.
- Clicking elsewhere in the assessment table row opens the teacher submission view. Clicking the status pill opens the student view instead.
- Opening Student view does not publish grades to the LMS or send a feedback email. Use the separate publish or email actions when you want to deliver results.
- If the browser blocks the new tab, allow pop-ups for Classwise and try again. If the feedback link cannot load, retry from the pill.
Secure links and feedback emails solve different problems. Use the one that fits how students should receive results.
Step by step
- Open a single student submission if you want to copy one feedback link or send one feedback email.
- Use More on the single-student page to Copy link or trigger the one-student email flow.
- Go back to the assessment page and use More > Email all feedback when you want to send the class in bulk.
- Check that the student has a valid email address and that the submission is in an email-ready state before you send.
- Use the secure feedback link when you want a shareable URL but do not want to rely on email delivery.
You should see
Students receive feedback through the method that matches the class context and the data available on the roster.
Keep in mind
- Feedback emails can be blocked by missing student email, incomplete state, or cooldown rules.
- Students open secure feedback links without entering the teacher dashboard.
- For a custom note that is not graded feedback, use Message students instead. See How to message students by email.
- The student feedback view can collect one stored assessment-level helpfulness response per secure feedback link, and students can update that response if they submit again later.
- Each question in the student feedback view now includes a question-mark prompt so students can quickly say whether that question seems right or seems off; those question-level responses are stored per secure feedback link and question, and students can update them later if they need to correct a response.
- Question headers in the student feedback view are green for full marks, yellow for partial marks, and muted red for zero points. The earned and maximum points remain visible, and questions without a valid score keep a neutral header.
- The student feedback view includes a Feedback / Tutor pivot. Feedback shows the graded comments, while Tutor opens a Classwise tutor grounded in that student's returned work.
- The tutor can explain feedback, help students work through missed steps, and suggest similar practice prompts without exposing teacher-only answer keys or rubric details.
- Turn on Turn Off File View in the assessment advanced options when students should see feedback without seeing their submitted worksheet or file.
Common blockers
- Missing student emails prevent email delivery.
- Feedback links and email delivery solve different problems than LMS grade publishing.
Some teams still need PDFs or spreadsheets outside Classwise. Use download and export actions after the grading state is final.
Step by step
- Open the assessment actions menu if you need a class-level export.
- Choose Export CSV when you need a spreadsheet of results.
- Choose Download all feedback when you need the class set of reports as files.
- The assessment student list defaults to alphabetical order by last name. The combined PDF from Download all feedback also follows last-name order.
- Your chosen sort order is remembered for each assessment. Opening a student from a filtered list keeps Previous and Next within that group in the same browser tab. The order updates when scores or statuses change. If the class roster changes, navigation returns to the full current roster.
- Open a single-student page and use Download or Download report when you only need one feedback artifact.
- Confirm that the submissions are already in a downloadable state if the bulk download action is disabled.
You should see
You leave the product with the files or exports needed for records, handoffs, or offline follow-up.
Keep in mind
- Bulk feedback download is disabled when there are no downloadable reports yet.
- Single-report download only works from shareable graded states.
- Individual, class, and ZIP feedback PDFs retain typeset formulas in question feedback and overall comments. Prose stays selectable and wraps across pages. Unsupported or malformed formulas remain visible as LaTeX source. Copying rendered feedback uses mathematical text; editing retains LaTeX source.