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Who can use this?

  • Who: Teachers and co-teachers
  • Plans: All plans
  • Where: New assignment > Guided, from your dashboard or any class page

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Limits and notes

  • A handout is one document up to 100 MB. Handout materials, such as readings, take up to 10 files and 300 MB in total.
  • Guided sets up the assignment only. You add student work afterwards, from the assignment page.
  • Every step saves as you go. You can close the tab and come back.

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Before you start

You need a class. Have the assignment ready: for writing, presentations, art and media, the instructions you gave students and a rubric if you have one; for quizzes, exams, worksheets and problem sets, the blank handout as a file.

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Which steps you’ll see

The wizard shows five steps, and which five depends on the type you pick.
Open response (Writing & Essays, Presentations, Art & Design, Video & Audio): Type, Details, Rubric, Feedback, Student work.Question based (Quizzes, Worksheets, Exams, Problem Sets): Type, Handout, Questions, Answer keys, Student work. There is no Feedback step; feedback settings live on the Handout step.

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Set up step by step

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Start a new assignment

On your dashboard or any class page, select New assignment. Pick the class if you’re asked, choose Guided, then select Continue. The wizard opens on Step 1 of 5 [1], with the step names across the top and Continue [2] at the bottom.
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Type: choose what you're grading

Under What are you grading?, pick a card from Open response or Question based. Continue stays greyed out until you do. The choice saves as soon as you make it.
3

Details, or Handout

For open response, the step is Details. Type an Assignment title. Under Instructions, choose Generate with AI, Upload an assignment or Write it yourself; instructions are optional, but the AI reads them to grade in context. Standards focus and Materials & organization are optional.For question based, the step is Handout. Type an Assignment title and upload the blank handout; the AI reads it and pulls out each question. Add your answer key under Answer key / rubric if you have one, or leave it blank and the AI drafts answer keys. Set Award partial credit and Check grammar under Grading rules, and the Feedback length.When you select Continue on a handout, the page reads Reading your assignment…. Short worksheets take a minute or two; long exams can take five or six. It moves on by itself when it’s done.
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Rubric, or Questions

For open response, the step is Rubric. Under Build your rubric, choose Generate with AI, Reuse existing to pick from your library, Import a file, or Start manually. Give it a Rubric title, check each criterion and its levels, and edit anything. Continue needs at least one criterion.For question based, the step is Questions. Your handout sits on the left and the questions the AI found on the right. Fix wording, points and order, add or delete questions and sections, then Save changes. Continue tells you if a question still needs points.
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Feedback, or Answer keys

For open response, the step is Feedback. Under Grading rules, set the Language of student work and whether to Check grammar. Under Feedback, pick a Feedback style and Feedback length, and add any instructions in your own words. Nothing here blocks Continue.For question based, the step is Answer keys. The AI drafts an answer key for every question as you arrive; wait for Generating rubrics… to finish. Mark the correct answers, check the points, and edit the rubric on any open-ended question. Continue saves and finalises the answer keys.
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Student work: decide where the work comes from

Choose I’ll upload the work, Students submit in GradingPal, or Students submit in Google Classroom. The Classroom card only appears for a class linked to Classroom.If students submit, set When students can see it to Open now (or Post now for Classroom), Schedule, or Keep hidden (or Don’t post yet), and set the Deadline. Times use the class’s time zone.Select Continue. The page reads Taking you to your assignment… and the assignment’s Submissions tab opens.

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Leaving and coming back

Every step saves. If you close the tab, the assignment waits on your dashboard under Continue working with a Finish setup button, and in the class’s Assignments list with a Draft pill. Opening it takes you back to the step you were on.

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How to tell it worked

The Submissions tab opens. If you chose to upload the work yourself, the assignment carries a Teacher-only chip and the bar at the top reads Upload student work. If students submit, the pill reads Live, Scheduled or Draft to match what you chose, and the bar tells you what students can see.

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If something goes wrong

The note names what’s missing: “Give your assignment a title.”, “Upload your assignment to continue.”, “Add a criterion to continue.”, or how many questions need points. Fix it and select Continue again.
Long exams can take five or six minutes. If nothing has changed after that, refresh the page. The wizard picks up where it was.
A text PDF beats a photo, and a password-protected file can’t be read at all. Select Try a different file or Try again with a clearer copy.
The assignment already has submissions, so its type can’t change. For question-based work, Type and Handout also lock once the handout has been read. Questions and answer keys stay editable.
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Last updated 19 September 2026

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