> ## 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.

# Grading Status

> Track handgrading progress, grader workloads, and pending reviews across an assignment

# Grading Status

The Grading Status view shows how far along handgrading is for an
assignment: how many submissions have been graded, who's assigned to
what, where the bottlenecks are, and which reviews are still pending
release. There is a per-assignment view (on the assignment's management
page) and a course-wide view (in the course navigation). Both are
available to instructors and head TAs.

## What it shows

* **Submissions**: total, graded, in-progress, pending.
* **Progress bar**: percentage of reviews complete.
* **Grader workload**: per-grader assigned / completed / pending counts,
  with overdue reviews flagged.
* **Average time per submission** for each grader.
* **Due dates** for grading tasks; the course-wide view also shows each
  assignment's release status and due date.

## Review states

A submission review is in one of four states:

* **Not started** — no rubric items have been graded.
* **In progress** — some required checks applied; review not complete.
* **Completed** — all required checks applied. Not yet visible to the
  student.
* **Released** — the instructor has released the review to the student.

<Note>
  Completing a review does not release it. Releasing is a separate step
  performed by an instructor; see [Handgrading](/staff/assignments/handgrading).
</Note>

## Actions

From a row in the dashboard you can:

* Click an assignment or submission to jump to the grading interface.
* Click a grader to see only their assignments and reassign work.
* Send a reminder to graders with pending work.
* Adjust review due dates — bulk or per student. See
  [Assigning Grading Tasks](/staff/assignments/grading-assignments).

For bulk completion, release, and unrelease across all selected
submissions, see [Bulk Actions](/staff/assignments/bulk-actions).

## Filtering

Filter the view to focus on what matters:

* Pending grading tasks only.
* A specific grader, section, or instructor group.
* By assignment due date or grading deadline.
* Sort by progress (least to most complete).

## Best practices

* Distribute submissions evenly using
  [bulk assignment](/staff/assignments/grading-assignments). The dashboard
  surfaces overloaded graders.
* Check the dashboard a few times during each grading window so
  bottlenecks don't slip past the release deadline.
* Spot-check a sample of each grader's work — the dashboard makes
  outliers (very fast or very slow grading) easy to find.