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.
- 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
- Manual publishing sends eligible completed rows to the LMS when you click publish.
- Auto-publish can publish immediately after grading, wait until the assessment due date, or wait until a scheduled date and time.
- Due-date and scheduled publishing are picked up by a background worker, so publishing can happen a few minutes after the exact 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.