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Regrade Requests

What your instructor configured wins. This page describes how Pawtograder behaves in the setup most courses use. Almost every rule below is a per-assignment or per-course setting, and your instructor chose the settings for your course on purpose, as part of how they want the course to run. So if your assignment behaves differently from what you read here, the most likely reason is that your course is set up differently, by design. Your assignment page and your course’s own policies are the authority on what applies to you. Ask your course staff if you are not sure, or if what you see looks wrong rather than merely different.
If you believe a rubric check on your graded submission was applied incorrectly — either it was marked when it shouldn’t have been, or it wasn’t applied when you think it should have been — you can open a regrade request on that specific check. A regrade request is a back-and-forth conversation between you and the original grader on a single rubric check. The grader can adjust your score (or leave it unchanged) and respond with their reasoning. If you’re not satisfied with the outcome, you can escalate the request to an instructor, whose decision is final.
Regrade requests are only available for rubric items graded by course staff. You cannot request a regrade on self-review rubric items. See Self-Review.

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When You Can Request a Regrade

Regrade requests are available once your submission has been graded and the grade has been released to you. Most assignments have no deadline for them at all, so a released grade stays open to a request indefinitely. Some courses set a regrade request deadline. If yours does, the dialog shows it to you before you commit: “Regrade requests must be submitted by date”. Once it has passed, the button is replaced by a disabled Regrade deadline passed button and the line “The deadline was date”, and you can no longer open new requests on that assignment.

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Opening a Regrade Request

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Open the graded submission

Go to the submission. The rubric sidebar, where the regrade controls live, is shown next to every tab except Grade, so Files works and so does Autograder Detail. Regrade controls also appear inline on the individual comments a grader left on your files and artifacts.
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Find the rubric check

Locate the specific rubric check you want to dispute. A check that was applied has a Request regrade for this check button (Request regrade where the control is inline on a comment). A check that was not applied, but that you think should have been, has a Request regrade — check not applied button.
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Read what happens next

The confirmation dialog explains the workflow: you’ll write a comment, the original grader will respond, you can escalate to an instructor if needed, and the instructor’s decision is final. If this is a group submission, you’ll also see a note that the request and any score change applies to the whole group.
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Draft the request

Click Draft Regrade Request. The request is created and you’re prompted to add a comment explaining your reasoning.
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Explain your reasoning

Write a clear comment describing why you believe the check should be re-evaluated. Be specific — point to the relevant lines, files, or rubric criteria. Posting that first comment is what submits the request: it moves from Draft to Pending and the grader can see it.
Only open a regrade request if you genuinely believe there was an error in grading. Frivolous or repeated bad-faith escalations may affect how future requests are handled.

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Request Statuses

A regrade request moves through these states: Those are the states, not a fixed path through them. The usual route is Draft → Pending → Resolved, and Escalated → Closed if you escalate. But an instructor can also close a Pending request outright, without the grader resolving it first. Once a request is Closed, it is final.

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After the Grader Responds

When the grader resolves your request, you’ll be notified. Their response may:
  • Adjust your score for that check (up or down)
  • Leave your score unchanged with an explanation
If you’re satisfied, you’re done — no further action is needed. A request can also resolve itself. If the grading comment your request pointed at is deleted while the request is still Draft or Pending, which happens when the submission is re-graded, the request is marked Resolved and flagged Action needed: “The grade this request referenced was changed during re-grading — review the updated grade and escalate if you still disagree.” An Escalated request is left in the instructor’s queue instead. If you disagree, you can escalate the request to an instructor for a final decision. The Escalate to Instructor button appears while the request is Resolved, and the dialog spells out the guidelines: escalate only if you have a substantive concern, give clear reasoning, the instructor’s decision is final, and frivolous escalations may affect future requests.

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Group Submissions

For group submissions:
  • Any group member can open a regrade request on the submission
  • The request and all comments are visible to every group member
  • Any score adjustment applies to the entire group’s score

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Tracking Your Requests

Your course dashboard has a Recent Regrade Requests section. Once you have at least one request, a View all regrade requests → link appears below it and opens the My Regrade Requests page. There is no course-menu entry for that page, so the dashboard link is the way to reach it. Requests are grouped by submission, with a collapsible header per submission giving the assignment name, how many requests it has, and an N actions needed badge counting the requests whose grade changed during re-grading. Inside each group, the columns are Status, Assignment, Submission, Rubric Check, Initial Points, Final Points, Created and Last Updated. Draft, Pending and Escalated requests sort above Resolved and Closed ones, and within each of those two blocks the newest come first. Note that Resolved counts as settled for sorting even though you can still escalate it, so a resolved request sorts down among the closed ones. You can also see each request inline on the original submission, attached to the rubric check it’s about. A Regrade Requests (N) panel collects every request on that submission, both in the rubric sidebar and on the submission’s Grade tab.