There are three places to check, and which one you want depends on whether you're looking at one course or all of them.

• Inside a course: select the Grades icon on the course navigation bar to see grades for that course's work only.
• Your activity stream: new grades appear as your instructor posts them. Select View your grade to open the assessment along with any feedback.
• The global Grades page: select Grades in the base navigation to see every course's grades in one place, organized by course.

On the global Grades page, courses are listed by name and term in alphabetical order, and organizations appear alongside courses.

How grades are displayed

Your instructor decides how each item's grade appears — as a letter grade, as points, or as a percentage. Different items in the same course can use different formats.

Grades appear in rounded “pills.” Where colors are turned on, the color gives you a quick read on the score:

Score	Pill color
Above 90%	Green
80–89%	Yellow-green
70–79%	Yellow
60–69%	Orange
0–59%	Red

Colors can be turned off at the institution level. When they're off, grade pills appear with dark backgrounds and white text instead.

Open one course's gradebook

1. From the Grades page, select the course you want.
2. Select the Gradebook tab.

You'll know there's something new when a number appears on the Gradebook tab, a purple dot marks a newly graded item, or a notice shows up in your activity stream.

What the gradebook shows

• Current grade: your overall grade to date, if your instructor enabled it.
• Status: where an item stands — started, submitted, late.
• Attempts: how many times you've submitted, and whether feedback is waiting.
• Feedback: select View to open your submission with your instructor's comments.
• Attendance: appears here if your instructor grades attendance.

After a due date passes, submission information appears in red text, and unsubmitted work may show a zero. You can still submit late where your instructor allows it — they decide the penalty.

Your overall grade

If your instructor set up an overall grade, it appears on both the global Grades page and inside the course. Select the overall grade pill to open a panel that shows how it's built:

• How individual items and categories are weighted, and what percentage each category contributes.
• Whether your instructor overrode the calculated grade.
• Any grade notation your instructor applied — Exempt, Withdrawal, Incomplete, or a custom notation.

The calculation is based on points earned out of total graded points, so early in the semester your overall grade reflects only what's been graded so far.

Open an assessment and look under Grading in the Details & Information panel to review your submission, the correct answers, your grade, and your instructor's feedback.

• For questions with several answer choices, you can see the alternatives as well as what you picked.
• Not graded means your instructor hasn't reviewed it yet.
• If your instructor is hiding correct answers for now, a banner tells you so.

When you had more than one attempt

Your instructor chooses which attempt counts:

• Average of all attempts
• First graded attempt
• Last graded attempt
• Highest graded attempt
• Lowest graded attempt

On the Course Grades page you can see which attempts happened before or after the due date, and which were late.

How partial credit works

Some question types can award partial credit, depending on how your instructor set them up.

Matching questions

• Partial credit for each correct pair
• All or nothing — every pair must be correct
• Points subtracted for wrong pairs, with zero as the floor
• Points subtracted for wrong pairs, with negative scores allowed

Multiple answer questions

• All or nothing
• Partial credit for each correct choice
• Points subtracted for incorrect choices

Past due work

Where your instructor set it up that way, work you didn't submit by the due date may receive an automatic zero. Whether you can still submit to replace it depends on your instructor's late-work settings.

Changes after grading

Your instructor can adjust points on individual questions after grading — for example, throwing out a bad question. Changes appear in your activity stream and on your Grades page. A Full credit given note means your instructor awarded credit at their discretion.

Your instructor may grade your participation in a discussion. Once they do, the grade shows up in four places:

• On the discussion itself, in the Details & Information panel
• On the Course Grades page, in the Grade column for that discussion's row
• On the global Grades page
• In your activity stream

Remember that a graded discussion earns one grade for your overall contribution, not a grade per post.

Reviewing the rubric

If your instructor used a rubric, select the grade to open the rubric next to the discussion. Expand each criterion to see the achievement levels — the level you were awarded is highlighted.

Late participation

Your instructor may apply a late policy that records a zero. It appears on the Grades page and in the discussion's Details & Information panel, and you'll get an activity stream notice. You can usually still participate afterward to update the grade, with whatever penalty your instructor set.

Video and audio feedback

Your instructor can leave a recording instead of written comments. Recordings appear in the Feedback panel and stream directly in the browser — you can pause and scrub the timeline, and no plug-in is needed. You can't export or download a recording, so take notes if you need to keep the feedback.

If your instructor grades attendance, you can see how you're doing on the Gradebook page, the Grades page, the Course Content page, and in your activity stream.

The four statuses

Your instructor marks you with one status for each class meeting:

• Present
• Late
• Absent
• Excused

Each status carries a percentage value, and your attendance grade adds up across meetings on a 100-point scale.

Attendance in your overall grade

Your instructor can fold attendance into your final course grade. When they do, select your overall grade to open the panel showing how items and categories are weighted — attendance appears there with its percentage of the total.

The Submission panel shows which of your attempts have grades and feedback attached. Select an attempt to see its grade, how the grade was calculated, and your instructor's comments in an expandable Feedback panel. If your instructor overrode the calculated grade, the panel says so.

The Course Grades page tells you how many attempts you used and flags any that were late.

Rubrics

1. Open the Details & Information panel from the Course Content page.
2. Select This item is graded with a rubric to display the rubric next to your work.
3. Expand a criterion to see the achievement levels. The level you earned is highlighted.

Feedback recordings

Where your instructor recorded video or audio feedback, select the video button in the Feedback panel to play it.

The Goals tab shows how your coursework connects to learning objectives WSU has defined. It only appears if course material has been aligned to measurable goals, so you won't see it in every course.

What the columns mean

Column	What it shows
Item	The name of the goal.
Overall Goal Status	Your rating on WSU's scale — for example Proficient or Exceeds Expectations — with a color. The scale titles and colors are set by WSU.
Content Items	How many graded items tied to that goal you've completed, out of the total. Select a goal's name to see all of its content.
Status	The grading status of the content linked to the goal.
Attempt Date	When you submitted that item.
Grade	The score you earned.

Use it to spot which competencies you've mastered and which ones deserve more of your study time.

The How Am I Doing? report compares your grade and your time in a course against the class average, week by week.

Open the report

1. Select Grades in the base navigation.
2. Select the pie chart icon next to a course name.
3. A summary panel opens with your performance and engagement data.

My Grade

A line chart plots your overall grade in purple against the course average in gray. Select a point to see a specific date, and use the plus and minus buttons to zoom. The current week's data refreshes once every 24 hours, in the early morning.

Markers on the chart flag notable weeks: an asterisk for good news such as being in the top 10% for grades or activity, an exclamation point for low activity, and a down arrow where your performance dropped. The table below the chart lists the course average, the range around that average, and your own overall grade for each week.

My Activity

This chart shows hours you spent in the course each week, in purple, against the class average in gray. Time counts from when you first select into the course until you select outside it, and time after an inactivity logout isn't counted. Like the grade chart, the current week refreshes every 24 hours.

Current class status

From your Activity page, a scatter plot puts every classmate on the same chart — you're the purple dot, everyone else is gray — plotting overall grade against hours in the course. Select a dot to see that grade, those hours, and days since last access. Students who spend more hours in a course tend to earn higher grades.

Alerts you can turn on

Open your Activity page, select the Settings gear, and expand My grades and activity to choose which of these you want:

Alert	When it fires
No recent activity	You haven't logged in within the window your instructor set.
Grade is low / at risk	Your grade falls below the threshold your instructor set.
Grade dropped	Your course grade fell 10% or more from the previous week.
Low course activity	Your hours are in the lowest 5% of the course.
Grade increased	Your course grade rose 10% or more from the previous week.
Top 10% activity	Your hours are in the top 10% of the course.
Top 10% grade	Your overall grade is in the top 10% of the course.

Why you might not see a report

• The course needs at least 10 students and no more than 2,000.
• Grade notifications require your instructor to have enabled the overall grade.
• Line charts don't appear where the overall grade isn't set up.
• Numbers here can differ from your gradebook because of the 24-hour refresh — the gradebook is the accurate one.

Open the gradebook

Any of these three routes works:

• Press Insert + F7 to open the links list, arrow to Gradebook, and press Enter.
• Press Insert + Ctrl + R for regions, go to Course Navigation, press Enter, find Gradebook, and press Enter.
• Tab or arrow down to Gradebook at heading level 1 and press Enter.

Move around inside it

Press T to select the table, then use Ctrl + Alt plus the arrow keys to move between cells. Navigating this way announces the column headers as you go, which is what makes the gradebook readable — it's built for table navigation.

Leave the gradebook

• Press Insert + F7, arrow to the Content link, and press Enter.
• Or press Insert + Ctrl + R, go to Course Navigation, and select Content.