Handing in homework

§ 01What homework submission is

Homework closes the loop on an assignment. A teacher creates an assignment in the gradebook for one class and subject; from then on, every enrolled student can hand in their work — a typed answer, a file, or both — straight from the student portal. The teacher sees what came in, grades it in the gradebook, and marks it returned. The student then sees their grade and any note.

A few things worth knowing up front:

• You can submit work for assignments in any class you're enrolled in. Work for a class you aren't enrolled in won't appear, and you can't submit to it.
• Some assignments are marked required and some are optional — both accept submissions; the difference is just the prompt to do them.
• An assignment may have a due date. You can still submit after it, but the submission is flagged as late (see § 04).
• The grade itself is entered and stored in the gradebook — homework is the hand-in side of that, not a separate score.

§ 02Finding your homework

From the student portal home screen, find the Homework section and tap View my homework. That opens your Homework page, listing the assigned work for every class you're enrolled in.

Each item shows the assignment title, the subject, the due date if it has one, and a status badge. If nothing has been assigned yet, you'll see:

§ 03Submitting your work

Each assignment on the Homework page has its own submission form. You can hand in a typed answer, a file, or both — but you must provide at least one.

1. Type into Your answer — a free-text box that holds up to 20,000 characters. Use it for short written answers, working, or a note about your attachment.
2. Optionally add a file under Attach a file — the label notes "optional — JPEG, PNG, or PDF, ≤ 5 MB". Only those three file types are accepted, and the file must be 5 MB or smaller — useful for a photo of handwritten work or a scanned PDF.
3. Press Submit. While it uploads the button reads "Submitting…".
4. On success you'll see "Submitted. Your teacher will review it." and the assignment's status updates.

§ 04Status & resubmitting

Every assignment carries a badge so you can see where it stands at a glance:

If you submit after the due date, the page adds a small note — "Submitted late" — so you and the teacher both know it was late.

Resubmitting

Whether you can hand work in again depends on the assignment. When resubmission is allowed, the form pre-fills your previous answer and the button reads Resubmit — sending it replaces your earlier submission entirely (the new answer and file become the whole submission). When it isn't allowed and you've already submitted, the form is locked and shows:

Once a teacher has returned an assignment, the form is replaced with "Your teacher has returned this work." — that submission is final.

§ 05How teachers review submissions

Teachers (and school admins) read submissions from the staff console. From an assignment's grade-entry view in the gradebook, press View submissions to open that assignment's inbox.

The inbox is one row per student, with columns for Student, Answer, Attachment, Submitted, Status, and Action:

• Answer shows the typed text (longer answers are truncated in the row).
• Attachment is a download link with the student's file name when one was attached; otherwise a dash.
• Submitted shows the date, with a Late tag when the student handed in after the due date.
• Status reads Submitted until you return it, then Returned.

Only the teacher of the assignment's class (or a school admin) can open the inbox or download attachments. Before any work comes in, the inbox shows "No submissions yet. Students submit their work from the student portal."

§ 06Grading & returning

Homework and the gradebook are deliberately joined: the grade lives in the gradebook, and returning a submission is what tells the student it's been graded.

1. Enter the score in the gradebook for that assignment, as you would for any assessment. (From the submissions inbox, Open gradebook jumps you there.)
2. Back in the inbox, press Mark returned on the student's row — the button reads "Returning…" briefly, then the status flips to Returned and the action shows Done.

When the work is returned, the student's Homework page shows the grade as "Grade: score / max" along with any note the teacher entered with the score.

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