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Bulk Actions

Pawtograder exposes several bulk operations across an assignment’s submissions so instructors don’t have to click through one submission at a time. All of them live on either the Submissions table on the assignment’s Dashboard tab or the Grading Assignments page.

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Selecting rows

The submissions table supports row selection via the leftmost checkbox column:
  • Click an individual checkbox to toggle a row.
  • Click All in view in the column header to select every row that matches the current filters.
  • Click None to clear the selection.
Submissions table with four rows checked, showing a 4 selected label above the table next to Release 4 selected submissions and Unrelease 4 selected submissions buttons
The Release and Unrelease buttons show the count of selected rows (e.g. “Release 12 selected submissions”) and become active only when at least one selectable row is checked. Row selection does not drive any completion action; see Finalize grading below. Rows for students who haven’t submitted yet are not selectable. The selection clears automatically after a successful action or when you change column filters.

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Finalize grading

The Finalize grading button on the assignment’s Dashboard tab marks every eligible incomplete review complete in one step. It is intentionally not scoped to your row selection: it always acts on every eligible review in the assignment. A review is eligible when:
  • All required rubric checks have been applied.
  • Every criterion’s minimum and maximum check counts are satisfied.
  • The submission is a student’s active submission and that student has not dropped the course.
  • The review is not already complete.
Clicking the button opens a popover reporting how many of the incomplete submissions can be finalized, and how many have missing required rubric checks. Those are skipped. Confirm with the checkmark to apply.
Finalize grading popover open below the grading status card, reporting that no incomplete submissions can be finalized because four submissions have missing required rubric checks, with cancel and confirm icon buttons
Completing a review does not release it to the student. Use Release (below) separately when you’re ready to make grades visible.
Use the Grading Complete column filter on the submissions table to focus on only complete or only incomplete reviews.

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Grading Progress dashboard

There is no second, finer-grained bulk-completion flow. The Grading Progress Dashboard tab on the Grading Assignments page has no bulk actions and no row selection. It reports each TA’s pending and completed counts, and its one action, Generate Reminder Email, copies a reminder message to your clipboard for you to send yourself. See Grading Status.

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Bulk Release and Unrelease

Once rows are selected on the submissions table, the Release and Unrelease buttons publish or retract the selected reviews. Released reviews become visible to students; unreleased reviews are hidden again and grading comments unlock for graders to edit.
Unreleasing a review hides it from the student but keeps it in their gradebook history. Don’t unrelease without a plan to re-release — the student may have already seen the previous grade.

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Reassign Grading by Grader

Reassignment is grader-centric rather than submission-centric: you pick the grader whose remaining work needs redistributing, not a set of submissions. From the Grading Assignments page, follow the Reassign Grading by Grader link, then:
  1. Select the grader whose remaining work you want to reassign.
  2. Choose the rubric.
  3. Set how many of that grader’s incomplete submissions to reassign.
  4. Choose the target role (Instructors, Graders, or Instructors and graders), optionally filter those staff by tag, and optionally name specific assignees.
  5. Choose a load-balancing strategy: Balance based on new assignments or Balance based on all assignments.
  6. Set the review due date.
  7. Click Prepare Reassignments, adjust the draft in the drag-and-drop preview, then click Reassign.
Each new grader inherits the same rubric parts the original grader was assigned, and declared grading conflicts are still respected. See Assigning Grading Tasks for editing a single review assignment and for the bulk-assign algorithm.

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Bulk Review Due Date Updates

The Bulk edit grading due dates and Bulk edit self-review due dates buttons on the Grading Assignments page update many review deadlines at once:
  1. Choose a rubric (required).
  2. Set the new due date and time.
  3. Optionally check Only rows not yet completed to skip finished reviews.
  4. Click Apply to matching rows.
The system reports how many rows were updated. Grading-rubric and self-review due dates are managed separately to avoid accidental cross-edits. For per-student due-date changes use the inline edit control on the submissions table or the student’s gradebook row.

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Group Mentor Column

When at least one group has an assigned mentor, a Group mentor column appears on the submissions table. Filter by mentor (or No mentor) using the column header dropdown to scope any of the bulk actions above to a specific mentor’s groups.