Step 14 - Return grades and feedback back to your LMS

Return grades and feedback back to your LMS

Whether you use Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology as your LMS of choice, the process of grading and then sending the grades and feedback report back to your students through your LMS is identical.

Once you have reviewed the feedback reports, made whatever edits you need to make, added comments as desired, and marked each report as Reviewed, it's time to return them to your students.

Exporting all reviewed essays in an assignment is done exclusively through the essay list on the assignment screen. The first steps are identical to those described in the previous article on how to Export feedback reports in bulk to PDF.

Navigate using the sidebar and/or main window to the assignment where the essays for which you wish to return grading and feedback to your students are located.

Select the essays for return in the list by checkmarking the empty box to the left of each essay. You can select all, or choose them one at a time if you wish to be more selective about your choices. You may use filters to narrow down the list as well.

As soon as any essay is selected, a new menu item will appear in the top bar that says Export.

Choose your LMS from this menu – Canvas, Google Classroom, or Schoology (the screenshot shows Google Classroom, but if these assignments were in a Canvas Workspace, you would see that export option instead).

Select options for what feedback will be returned to the student.

The example in the first screenshot below is the options for a return of grades and feeback to Google Classroom.

Export options for return of feedback to Google Classroom

Many of the options on this screen are identical to those you will see when exporting to a PDF.

Option	What it includes in the export to the LMS	Use when…
Annotations	The student’s submission pages with your highlights, callouts, or markup. If you didn’t add any, the clean submission is still included.	You want students to see mark-ups on their actual pages.
Feedback report	The narrative feedback summary (plus rubric section summaries). With Hide grades, scores are omitted but written feedback stays. This is attached as a PDF to the comments on the assignment in the LMS	You need a readable summary of strengths, areas to improve, and next steps.
Writing report	The writing mechanics report (grammar, usage, style) with issue lists and suggested fixes. This is attached as a PDF to the comments on the assignment in the LMS	You want a detailed, line-item view of writing issues and suggestions.
Comments	Any inline or overall comments you added. This is added to the comments for the assignment within the LMS	You left specific notes you want captured in the export.
Hide grades	Suppresses rubric scores/points in the export. Narrative feedback and comments remain.	You’re sharing feedback without revealing grades (e.g., draft reviews).

Notes

You can combine options (e.g., Annotations + Comments, or Feedback report + Hide grades).
Hide grades only changes what appears in the exported PDF. It doesn’t delete scores in the app.

Common combinations

Quick narrative only: Feedback report + Hide grades
Marked-up pages: Annotations + Comments
Writing focus: Writing report (optionally add Comments)
Everything: Annotations + Feedback report + Writing report + Comments + Grades

Choose how grades will appear in your LMS (Canvas only).

Export options for return of feedback to Canvas

In addition to the above options, this screen includes a choice of whether to return the raw grade (i.e., 12/16) to Canvas or a percentage grade (i.e., 75%).

Only choose to send the percdentage grade back to Canvas if that is the scale that you are using there. The percentage is sent as a raw number, so it will show up as 75, using the example in the screenshot. If Canvas is using the rubric score, the student will now have been assigned a 75/16 score, which is obviously not what you wanted.

Share a final comment with the student (Canvas Only).

You've already provided comments within the grading report itself, but you have one last opportunity to provide a comment here. As noted, the comment will be attached to the submission in Canvas.

Export the essay(s) – Click the Export button to complete the process.

You can now go back to your LMS and observe the feedback and grades for each student within that platform.

This concludes the walkthrough. You've now reviewed the basic steps needed to go from creating a workspace all the way to sending grades back to your students. The steps and articles in the walkthrough have showed you how to:

You can come back to any of these articles at any time for a refresher.

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Updated on: 09/20/2025

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