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If you're grading an assignment, discussion, or quiz in Brightspace, it's ideal to hide your feedback until you've finished entering it for all students. You have a couple of options for doing this:
Save your feedback as a draft as you grade each student's work, then publish your feedback to all students at once.
Hide a column in the Grades area before you start grading, then make it visible when you're done.
Option 1: Save Draft Feedback
Option 1: Save Draft Feedback
While you're assessing an assignment, discussion, or quiz*, you'll see a "Save Draft" button at the bottom-right side of the page as you review a student's work. Simply click this button (instead of "Publish") as you enter feedback for each student.
*NOTE: To enter draft feedback on a quiz, you'll first need to turn on the new quiz evaluation experience in your course.
Then when you've finished entering feedback for all of your students, you can publish it all at once. Where to find this option is slightly different for assignments, discussions, and quizzes; click the accordion for each type of activity to view its specific instructions.
Assignments
Assignments
Click the Publish All button on the assignment's Submissions page.
Figure: The Publish All button on an assignment's "Submissions" page.
Discussions
Discussions
Click the Publish All Feedback button on the Assess Topic page.
Figure: The Publish All Feedback button on the "Assess Topic" page.
Quizzes
Quizzes
Click the Publish Feedback button on the Grade Quiz page to release the feedback for multiple attempts simultaneously.
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Option 2: Hide a Grade Column
Option 2: Hide a Grade Column
Hiding the column for an assignment, discussion, or quiz in your course's Grades area removes it from students' view, and they won't receive notifications as you individually publish your feedback for them.
To hide a column in your course's Grades area, follow these 3 steps:
Step 1. Click Grades in your course's navigation menu.
Step 2. Click the Manage Grades tab.
Step 3. Click the down arrow to the right of an item's name, then select Hide from Users. An icon that looks like an eye with a line through it will appear next to the grade item, indicating that it's hidden from students.
Figure: The Hide from Users option for a grade item
To make the column for the grade item visible once you're done adding feedback, simply complete this process again, but select Make Visible to Users in Step 3.
Figure: The Make Visible to Users option for a grade item
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