Grade, assess & provide feedback

This article is for teachers.

With Google Classroom, you can:

Manage student submissions & work status

You can check your student's assignments, grades, and missing work in a single location. You can filter this information by status and email it to both the student and their guardian.

For each assignment, you can sort students by their assignment status:

  • Turned in: The student has submitted the work, or you graded their work but didn’t return it yet.
  • Assigned: The work isn’t submitted, or you returned it ungraded.
  • Graded: You graded and returned the work.
  • Returned: You returned the work without a grade.

To email students who share the same work status, you can also select specific students and groups within an assignment.

Provide personalized feedback

With Google Classroom’s grading tool, you can:

  • Provide personalized feedback on any type of file.
  • Leave comments directly on a student’s work.
  • Build a comment bank to save and reuse your most frequent feedback.
  • Return work to students so they can check your comments.

Students can attach various file types to their assignments. This includes:

  • Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides
  • Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, or PowerPoint®
  • Adobe® PDF®
  • Image files
  • TXT files
  • Video files (WEBM, MPEG4, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG-PS, WMV, FLV, OGG)

Check student work

To check the student’s work and assignment history:

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Sign in with your Google Account.
  3. Click the class and then Classwork.
  4. Click the assignment and then View question or View assignment.
  5. On the left, click the student name and then the file they turned in.

You can find how the grade has changed and how many times a student has submitted work for an assignment. To check the full assignment history for a turned-in or graded assignment:

  1. Click the class and then Classwork.
  2. Click the assignment and then View assignment.
  3. On the left, click the student’s name and then See history.

To navigate between student submissions while you grade:

  • Desktop: Scroll and select a student's name, or click Back and Next.
  • Android: Swipe left or right, or tap the arrows next to the student's name.

Use the comment bank

Your comments are linked to your Google Account, so you can access them on any computer.

Add & save comments to use later

You can add comments from student work to the comment bank, or enter new comments directly into the bank.

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Open the student work.
  3. On the right, click Comment bank and then Add to bank.
  4. Select an option:
    • Enter a single comment: Enter your comment.
    • Enter multiple comments: To put your comments in a list, after each comment, press Enter.
    • Enter a list of prepared comments: Paste your list.
      • Make sure each comment is on a new line.
  5. Click Add.
Find & use a comment
  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Open the student work.
  3. Select the desired text.
  4. Click Add comment.
  5. To find your 5 most frequent comments, in the comment box, enter: #.
    • Or, to get suggestions, enter: #. Then, enter a keyword or phrase.
  6. Select the desired comment.
  7. Click Comment.

To search for and copy a comment:

  1. Click Comment bank and then Search.
  2. Enter a keyword or phrase.
  3. Hover over the comment.
  4. Click More and then Copy to clipboard.
  5. In the comment box, paste the comment and make any necessary changes.
  6. Click Comment.
Edit a comment in the comment bank

You can edit a comment within the student work grading tool or on the web.

To edit in student work:

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Open the student work.
  3. Click Comment bank.
  4. Hover over the comment.
  5. Click More and then Edit.
  6. Enter your changes.
  7. Click Save.

To edit on the web:

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com/g/cm.
  2. Hover over the comment.
  3. Click More and then Edit.
  4. Enter your changes.
  5. Click Save.
Remove a comment from the comment bank

To delete a comment in student work:

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Open the student's work.
  3. Click Comment bank.
  4. Hover over the comment.
  5. Click More and then Delete.
  6. To confirm, click Delete.

To delete a comment on the web:

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com/g/cm.
  2. Hover over the comment.
  3. Click More and then Delete.
  4. To confirm, click Delete.

Add private comments

Students can check and respond to private comments you add to their returned assignments. If the student replies, you can continue the conversation within the grading tool.

Important: Private comments can’t be edited or deleted after you post them.

To add a private comment to student work in Classroom:

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Open the student's work.
  3. Click Grading.
  4. Under "Private comments," click Add private comment.
  5. Enter your comment.
  6. Click Post.

Tip: You can reply to both public and private comments directly from your email notifications, without opening Classroom.

Format text in private comments

To apply formatting like bold, italics, or bullets:

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Select your class.
  3. On the "Assignments" page, click Add private comment.
  4. To choose the format,in the menu, click Bold, Italic, or Underline.
  5. Enter your desired text.
  6. To remove the formatting, click Bold, Italic, or Underline.
  7. To create a bulleted list, in the menu, click Bulleted list.
  8. Enter your list items. The bullets appear the same in the draft as when posted.
  9. Click Send.

Manage comment notifications

  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Scroll then click Settings.
  3. Under "Notifications," turn on Comments.
    • This includes comments on your posts, comments that mention you, and private comments on work.

Run originality reports

If you enable originality reports for an assignment, a report is automatically generated when a student submits their work. The report highlights text the student didn’t cite or quote from internet sources. If your administrator enables school matches, the report additionally verifies against past student submissions from your school or district.

Originality reports are available for Google Workspace for Education accounts set to multiple languages. These include English, French, Spanish, and many others.

Open an originality report
  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Open the class.
  3. Click Classwork and then the assignment and then View assignment.
  4. From the student work page, open the assignment.
Review the report
  • Check the percentage or number of flagged passages: To check the percentage or number of flagged passages, click Count or %.
    • The percentage indicates the extent to which the content aligns with uncited or unquoted source material.
  • Highlight cited or quoted passages: To highlight cited or quoted passages, turn on # cited or Quoted passages.
  • Review individual passages:
    1. Click Web matches.
    2. At the bottom, to scroll through the passages, click Next or Back.
    3. Optional: To find the match for a specific passage, click a highlighted passage in the document.
    4. To return to the summary, click Back.
    5. To return to the grading tool, click Close.
Save or print the report
  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Open the originality report.
  3. At the top, click Print.
  4. Select Save as a PDF, Save to your Google Drive, or Print the report.

Check practice sets

You can use interactive, auto-graded assignments to save time, pinpoint where students need support, and gain insights for your future lesson plans.

These are practice sets that are available with the Google Workspace for Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade editions.

Important: You must manually enter scores from practice sets into your Classroom gradebook.

Review student work
  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Select the desired class.
  3. Click Classwork and then the assignment.
  4. On the right, click the number above "Turned in" or "Assigned."
    • This number can’t be zero.
  5. Optional: To display all students in a specific status, select Turned in, Graded, or Returned.
  6. On the left, to check the student’s work, select a student’s name.
View class insights

The class insight tool is only available for practice sets. Questions set to "Auto" are automatically graded.

  1. From the student work page, in the left panel, click Class insights.
  2. At the bottom left sidebar, under "Insights," select an option:
    • All students: Displays a summary of how many students answered correctly.
    • Problem number: To display responses for a specific question, click a column number.
    • Insights: To display high-level insights, such as where the class or individuals struggled, click the box at the top left.
    • Individual student: To display their practice set, click a student's name.
Grade an assignment manually
  1. On your computer, go to classroom.google.com.
  2. Select a class.
  3. Click the Classwork tab.
  4. Select the desired assignment.
  5. At the bottom left, click View Assignment.
  6. Click Class insights and then a student's name and then the practice set.
  7. Select a question.
  8. Click Ungraded, Correct, or Incorrect.
  9. In the drop-down list, select the grade status as Correct or Incorrect.
  10. In the right panel, enter the grade.
    • After you reload, the grade reflects for both you and the student.
  11. Optional: Add a private comment for the student.

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