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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pawtograder.com/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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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 assignment’s All Submissions 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.
The Release / Unrelease / Complete 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. 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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Mark All Grading Complete

The Mark All Grading Complete button on the All Submissions tab marks every eligible incomplete review complete in one step. A review is eligible when:
  • All required rubric checks have been applied.
  • All criteria min/max check requirements are satisfied.
  • The submission’s student is still active in the course.
  • The review is not already complete.
Clicking the button opens a popover that summarizes how many reviews will be marked complete and how many will be skipped because of missing required checks. Confirm to apply.
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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Bulk Complete (Grading Progress page)

For finer-grained control than “complete all eligible”, use the Bulk Complete action on the Grading Progress page:
  1. Filter incomplete reviews by grader, due date, rubric part, or completion status.
  2. Select the reviews you want to complete using the checkboxes.
  3. Click Bulk Complete.
  4. Optionally choose to preserve existing grades, apply default scores, or excuse from grading.
  5. Optionally add a note explaining the bulk action.
  6. Click Confirm Bulk Complete.
Common uses: closing out the end of a grading period, excusing students who dropped, or completing placeholder reviews.

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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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Bulk Reassign Graders

From the Grading Assignments page:
  1. Select the submissions or rubric parts to reassign.
  2. Click Bulk Reassign.
  3. Choose the new grader(s).
  4. Optionally update the review due date or add a note.
  5. Preview the change and confirm.
Existing scores, comments, and annotations are preserved and visible to the new grader. If the new grader had already completed a different rubric part on one of the reassigned submissions, the system clears the completed_at timestamp so the new work appears in their pending list. Conflict-of-interest rules are still enforced. See Assigning Grading Tasks for the per-row reassignment flow and the underlying assignment 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.