View grades
How to find your grades and understand emoji feedback
Where to find your grades
Section titled “Where to find your grades”Released grades show up in two places:
- Assignments > Completed: each submitted assignment shows its grade
- Dashboard: the Recent feedback card lists your most recently graded work
Emoji grades
Section titled “Emoji grades”Most courses grade with emoji instead of numbers. Each emoji your grader gives carries a value they set up, and the mix of emoji on an assignment is your grade; if several graders grade you, their grades average. Some courses use a plain 0–100 scale instead, in which case you see a score.
A rough guide to the common set:
- 🔥 / 🚀: above and beyond, mastery, standout work
- 👍: solid work that meets expectations
- 👀: not yet there
- 👎 / 😭: needs significant rework
Your instructor can customize which emoji they use and what each one means, so check your course’s grading guide if it differs.
Released vs pending
Section titled “Released vs pending”Grades stay hidden until your instructor releases them, and releasing happens per assignment. A submitted assignment that hasn’t been released yet shows as Pending. Once it’s released, the emoji appear, along with who graded it. An assignment can be graded internally well before you see it.
Quiz scores
Section titled “Quiz scores”Quiz grades aren’t held back for release: a grade shows as soon as you finish an attempt, on your Assignments and Quizzes pages and on the attempt’s result. Like other grades, it’s an emoji from your course’s scale (a score badge on a 0–100 scale), not a percentage. If you finished after the due date, you also see how many hours late it was, such as 3h late, and what the grade counts for after the late penalty. If you made more than one attempt, the result says when an attempt doesn’t count toward your grade.
Your instructor can adjust a quiz grade. An adjusted grade shows the original emoji next to the new one with an adjusted tag, and any comment your instructor wrote shows under Instructor comment on the attempt’s result. If you think an attempt was graded wrong, open its result and choose Request regrade/resubmit; your request and the staff reply appear under Regrade/Resubmit in the sidebar.
Feedback
Section titled “Feedback”The real feedback lives in your Github repository, in commit comments, the pull request, or the assignment issue if your course uses one, where graders leave specific comments. The emoji is the quick signal. The comments are where you learn what to improve. If you disagree with a grade, Request regrade/resubmit on the assignment row opens a regrade/resubmit request; your requests and the staff replies are under Regrade/Resubmit in the sidebar.