Review the graded essay list (EssayDashboard)

Once the system is finished grading your essays you will be taken back to the Essay Dashboard where the list of graded essays will now be populated. You may watch a 2 minute demo video in our Video Tutorials help section for a visual overview of the Essay Dashboard and some discussion of the feedback report itself. And you may follow the steps below to learn more about this central grading screen.

The Assignment screen contains everything you need in order to properly review your students' graded submissions. In addition to the general information at the top—like assignment title, class name, and a visual list of grading settings (many of these clickable for more detail)—this screen contains the Essay Dashboard—a detailed list of submissions for this assignment with key data and a variety of actions that can be taken with each submission.

Summary of the grading settings

In addition to the list you now have additional information about the assignment, having added grading settings at the time of importing or uploading essays. You can review these for accuracy.

To change any of these settings and regrade with the new settings, select the Edit & Regrade button in the top right.

The essay list in detail

The list of essays and a number of columns with details about the grading make up the rest of the screen. Below is a description of each item, identified by a numbered marker matching the numbered sections below..

1. Essay title

If you have imported essays from a linked LMS then more information will be brought in than if you had manually uploaded/imported essays from your device or cloud storage.

In addition to the essay title, you will see the student's name as it has come in from the LMS. This will help you to identify the individual papers. If you are not importing from an LMS, the student's name will not show up in the essay list.

Selecting the hyperlinked title will open the report for reviewing. If the essay has not been graded yet, there will be no hyperlink. Please note: This specific link opens in a new tab. Other links that open the feedback report open in the same tab.

2. Flags

This column is related to the integrity check and will alert you if AI or Plagiarism Detection has been triggered.

3. Grade Date

If you have run grading on all essays as a batch, then the date and time for graded essays will all be the same. But if you are grading essays as they come in, or by some other logic, you may see varying data in this column.

4. Grade

This is the nuts and bolts of the process and you will see the grade assigned to the essay in this column.

You may recall from the article Set up your first assignment – Rubrics that the total grade is the sum of scores assigned for each of the rubric grading criteria. This number is shown as a fraction of the maximum score and also provided as a percentage for your reference. Example: 12/16 (75%).

5. Status

This column shows the review status of the report. When you are satisfied with the report (discussed in the next help article) you will mark it as reviewed so that you can see which reports you still need to look at.

6. Icons

The far right column contains a view icon that will open the report as well as a three dot menu icon that provides options including renaming the essay (helpful if submissions do not respect a naming convention), re-grade, export to PDF and delete.

7. The top bar

There are two rows in the top bar and what appears in these rows changes depending on whether essays are selected and/or filters are applied.

We'll start with a tour of the options on the bottom row.

Filters

Above the essay list are, to the left, filters applied and an + Add filter button. Filters are helpful for narrowing down the list, especially if the class is large and the list is very long. You can apply more than one filter and you will see these in the bottom row as they are selected and applied.

The default filter is Review Status and is automatically added. However, no option is automatically selected and you'll need to select one, if you wish to use it. To do so, click the filter name and select Not Reviewed or Reviewed from the dropdown list. Then click the Apply button. (Not Reviewed will show you essays with a status of Ready to Review.)

To add a filter

• Step 1: Click the + Add filter button.
• Step 2: Select the filter category you wish to add from the dropdown list.

• Step 3: Select a filter option and click Apply.

Once you've applied a filter, the essay list will refresh and that filter item will remain in the bottom row.

You can review which option in a filter is applied by selecting the filter in the top bar. You will see the same dropdown as when you selected the filter option, but the active filter option will already be selected. Click Apply again, or anywhere outside the filter, to close the dropdown.

To remove a filter

Select the filter that you wish to remove to open the same dropdown, but click Delete. The filter will disappear from the bottom row and the list will refresh.

Search essays

Toward the right of the top bar is a search entry field marked Search, which searches the essay titles for the keyword text entered in the search field.

Sort by

To the right of the Search essays entry field is a Sort by: button that opens a dropdown menu when selected. The default option is Essay Name, which sorts by essay title in alphabetical order.

All options for sorting are:

• Essay name
• Created date (this actually corresponds to the Graded date column)
• Student last name (when available)
• Grade

You can reverse the sort order by clicking the vertical arrow icon to the right of the Sort by: button.

Concluding this section is discussion of the top row of list options. Until any essays are selected, several options are greyed out and not selectable.

Grade more submissions

The selectable option when no list items are checked off is the + Grade More Submissions button. Clicking this button allows you to manually add essays from your device or from cloud storage (when working in a manually created folder structure) or to select additional essays for import from your LMS.

Additional options when essays are selected in the list

Depending on whether or not one or more essays is selected, the items in the top bar will change.

Selection count

An indicator will appear when one or more essays is selected showing you how many have been selected. Clicking the X in this indicator will deselect all essays.

Export

This button opens a menu that allows you to choose a number of export options for the feedback reports of the selected essays. We cover exporting essays in the following help center articles:

• Export grading feedback (printed copies and digital PDF)
• Export feedback reports in bulk to PDF
• Return grades and feedback back to your LMS

Delete submissions

Clicking this button will delete the selected essays and their associated feedback reports. You will receive a warning that this is a permanent action.

Continue the walkthrough: Review the feedback report >>>

Updated on: 01/16/2026