Review the graded essay list

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. Follow the steps below to learn more about this central grading screen.

Summary of the grading settings

[screenshot of the top section with the Regrade Entire Class button]

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 Regrade Entire Class 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. 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.

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 different 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 still need to be looked 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 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. Click select option, and choose Not Reviewed or Reviewed to apply this default filter. Not Reviewed refers specifically to those essays with the status Ready to Review.

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 the *Select Option item in the dropdown list.

• Step 4: Select the option you wish to add as a filter from the list that appears.
• Step 5: Click the checkmark to the right of the filter category title to apply the filter.

Once you've applied a filter, the essay list will refresh.

Remove a filter

Select the filter you wish to remove and click the garbage can icon. The filter will disappear anbd the list will refresh.

You can review which option in a filter is applied by selecting the filter in the top bar

Search essays

To the right of the top bar is a search entry field marked Search essays, which searches the essay titles for the 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
• Graded Date
• 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.

Add Submissions

Above the top bar is an + Add Submissions button that allows you to manually add essays from your device or from cloud storage for immediate grading. If you wish to add more essays from your LMS, you will need to initiate this from the Dashboard through the Import from... option in the relevant Upload Submissions tile.

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.

Number of essays selected

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: 09/20/2025