Guide • Teachers • School leaders

How to share feedback and publish grades

Once grading is done, you still have to decide how results should reach students. This guide helps you pick the right sharing path and avoid the common gotchas.

What this guide helps you do

Choose the right way to send results outward after grading is complete, whether that means the LMS, email, secure links, or downloadable files.

Expected outcome

Students or gradebooks receive the right output through the right channel, and you know which sharing state now applies.

For

Teachers • Instructional leads

Before you begin

Make sure the assessment rows you want to share are in a teacher-approved state. • Decide whether the receiving system is the LMS, student email, or a manually shared artifact.

What you will need

A completed grading result and, for email, student addresses that are actually present on the roster.

Feature requirements

Publish to LMS requires an LMS-linked assessment and LMS integration access.

Applies to

LMS publishing • Email feedback • Secure link sharing • Exports and downloads

Last verified: 2026-03-25

Before you click anything, decide whether this assessment should be published to the LMS, sent by email, shared by secure link, or downloaded as files.

Step by step

  1. Finish grading and review until the submission or assessment rows are truly ready to share.
  2. Decide whether the next action should update the LMS gradebook, send direct feedback to students, create shareable links, or produce files for download.
  3. Use the assessment-level actions when you want to act on the whole class, and the single-student page when you want to work one student at a time.
  4. Choose Publish Grades when the gradebook needs the score, Email All Feedback when students need direct feedback by email, a secure feedback link when you want a shareable URL, or Download when you need files outside the product.
  5. Confirm the table state after the action runs so you know whether the result stayed Completed or moved into Published or Emailed.

You should see

You decide on one outward path before you click anything, which keeps student visibility predictable.

Keep in mind

  • Completed means the grading result is ready inside Classwise.
  • Published and Emailed are separate outward-sharing states.

Common blockers

  • Completed means the result is ready internally, not that the student has seen it yet.

LMS publishing is a final workflow step, not a first-pass grading action. Make sure the assessment and rows are eligible before you push anything outward.

Step by step

  1. Open the assessment detail page after grading is complete.
  2. Confirm that the assessment is LMS-linked and that at least one row is in a publishable state.
  3. Click Publish Grades from the assessment actions if you want to publish the class, or publish one student from the single-submission page if you only need one row.
  4. Review the confirmation modal before you continue.
  5. Confirm the publish action and wait for the LMS update to complete.
  6. Refresh the table and verify that the affected rows moved into Published.

You should see

Eligible grades are pushed back to the connected LMS and the publish state updates in Classwise.

Keep in mind

  • Only completed submissions can be published.
  • The publish path can use either the accuracy or completion score depending on assessment setup.

Keep in mind

Question-type Google Classroom assignments need email feedback if teachers want students to receive richer feedback outside the LMS score push.

Common blockers

  • Google Classroom question assignments do not support feedback-link publishing through the LMS path.
  • If the assessment is not LMS-linked, Publish grades should not be your next action.

Secure links and feedback emails solve different problems. Use the one that fits how students should receive results.

Step by step

  1. Open a single student submission if you want to copy one feedback link or send one feedback email.
  2. Use More on the single-student page to Copy Link or trigger the one-student email flow.
  3. Go back to the assessment page and use More > Email All Feedback when you want to send the class in bulk.
  4. Check that the student has a valid email address and that the submission is in an email-ready state before you send.
  5. Use the secure feedback link when you want a shareable URL but do not want to rely on email delivery.

You should see

Students receive feedback through the method that matches the class context and the data available on the roster.

Keep in mind

  • Feedback emails can be blocked by missing student email, incomplete state, or cooldown rules.
  • Students open secure feedback links without entering the teacher dashboard.

Common blockers

  • Missing student emails prevent email delivery.
  • Feedback links and email delivery solve different problems than LMS grade publishing.

Some teams still need PDFs or spreadsheets outside Classwise. Use download and export actions after the grading state is final.

Step by step

  1. Open the assessment actions menu if you need a class-level export.
  2. Choose Export CSV when you need a spreadsheet of results.
  3. Choose Download All Feedback when you need the class set of reports as files.
  4. Open a single-student page and use Download or Download Report when you only need one feedback artifact.
  5. Confirm that the submissions are already in a downloadable state if the bulk download action is disabled.

You should see

You leave the product with the files or exports needed for records, handoffs, or offline follow-up.

Keep in mind

  • Bulk feedback download is disabled when there are no downloadable reports yet.
  • Single-report download only works from shareable graded states.