Schoology Learning

Submit and grade assignments (instructors)

Submit an assignment for a student

  1. Navigate to the course.

  2. Select Course Options, and choose View Course As from the list.

  3. Choose the student to impersonate.

  4. Choose the assignment to submit on the student’s behalf.

  5. Enter the assignment content as needed for the course.

    • For elementary-themed courses, enter the assignment content, and then click I’m Done!

    • For secondary-themed courses, click Submit Assignment. Then, either upload or create the submission. If your district has enabled access to student resources, you can choose from the student’s Schoology resources to import with their assignment submission.

Submitted assignments

You will receive a notification when a student submits an assignment. Access submissions from the assignments in the course or the assignments listed in the Calendar. Download or review each file, or download all assignments in a bulk .zip file.

The Download All option has a limit of 500MB. If the submissions exceed this limit, download submissions individually.

Grade and return assignments

Select a submitted assignment to review and annotate the submission by posting comments, uploading a file, drawing, and more.

Enter a Grade based on the grading scale or rubric and add a Comment. Your comment will be displayed in the gradebook and the Grades area of the course. Choose not to display the comments by clearing Show to Student. After entering a grade and a comment, click Submit.

Return the assignment to the student by clicking Save Changes.

  • The following file types are supported: CSV, DOC, DOCX, DXF, EPS, GIF, HTM, HTML, JPEG, JPG, MP3, MP4, MOV, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDF, PNG, PPT, PPTX, PSD, RTF, SXW, TIFF, TXT, WAV, WMV, WPD, WPS, XLS, XLSB, XLSX, and XML.

  • Apple Pages, Numbers, or Keynote files will not be converted. Instead, download these submissions.

  • Annotate all file types, such as media files, using the annotation tools.

  • You can upload unlimited files, but each must be uploaded individually. Each file has a size limit of 512 MB

  • If using a third-party annotation program, upload your revised document to the comments/discussion area of the student's submission.

  • If you plan to have students submit multiple revisions of the same assignment, enter comments so you can review the history of submissions and comments.

  • To delete any comments you or the student posted, hover over the comment, select X, and then click Submit.