Finding & Reviewing Student Work

Open a class from the Classes page and you land in its workspace, which has seven tabs. Student Work is spread across three of them, which is the single most common source of "I can't find where my students' work went".

• Overview — a snapshot of the class at a glance
• Assignments — what's assigned to which section, and when it's due
• Student Work — per-assignment completion status and individual submissions
• Gradebook — every student against every assignment in one grid
• Analytics — class-wide patterns and proficiency trends
• People — your roster, and one student's history across all assignments
• Materials — documents that inform AI generation

Lemon says: Student Work answers 'how did this assignment go?'. People answers 'how is this student doing?'. Gradebook answers both at once.

The Student Work tab is organised by assignment. Pick one from the dropdown and you get every student in the section with their current status, so you can see at a glance who's done, who's behind, and who hasn't started.

• Completed — finished on time
• Late — finished after the due date
• Needs review — practiced, but credit is waiting on your review
• In progress — has attempted, not yet submitted
• Not started — no attempts yet
• Overdue — past the due date and not finished

Lemon says: If your class has multiple sections, check the section selector at the top. Each section has its own assignments and its own roster.

Select View on any student who has submitted to open their full submission. This is where the actual evidence lives — what they said, how it sounded, and what the AI made of it. For completion-only work you see only its shape (duration, turns and the proficiency estimate), not the transcript or audio.

• Transcript — the full conversation, turn by turn
• Overview — the summary the student received
• Proficiency — the estimated level for this conversation
• Detailed Feedback — the in-depth analysis for each feedback area
• AI Coach — the follow-up chat, if the student used it

Lemon says: Start with the transcript. Reading twenty turns of what a student actually said tells you more than any summary.

Where a recording is available, you can play back the session audio. For speaking practice this matters more than usual — pronunciation, hesitation, and fluency are all invisible in a transcript, and the transcript itself is produced by speech recognition that can misread accented speech.

Lemon says: If a transcript looks oddly broken, listen before you conclude anything about the student. It's often the recogniser, not them.

The Gradebook shows every student against every assignment in one view, which is the fastest way to spot a pattern — a student who's quietly stopped submitting, or an assignment that half the class skipped.

• Needs review — has work waiting on you, including grading you've saved as a draft
• Reviewed — locked, but not yet visible to the student
• Released — the student can see it

Lemon says: Saving and releasing are different on purpose. You can grade a whole section, then release everything at once.

Reviewing every submission end to end doesn't scale past a section or two. This order gets through a class quickly while still catching what matters.

• Open the Gradebook and filter to Needs review
• Scan the Student Work statuses first — deal with not-started and late before reading anything
• For each submission, skim the transcript rather than reading every turn
• Only listen to the audio when the transcript looks unusual or the student is borderline
• Grade in draft as you go, then release the whole set together from the Gradebook column header

Lemon says: Skim, don't read. You're looking for whether the objectives happened, not for every article error.