Changes to Assignments and Grades view in Insights

If you use Education Insights, this guide will help you find where some of the data has moved. The new, color-coded Assignments reports are better organized and include information about assignment status, grades, and more. You can understand your students' progress better with visuals that show where you need to take action.

Learn more about the updates to Insights' Assignments and Grades compared to the old version below, and check out the complete overview of the new Assignments and Grades report.

Report organization

The report is automatically filtered for the last 28 days. To see earlier assignments, choose Last 28 days and change the timeframe.

screenshot of the available filters in the Assignments and Grades view of Insights. you can search by student, by assignment by tag, or by date.

You can also choose to filter by student, by assignment, or by category.

Tip: Use the Custom range on the calendar filter to include assignments that aren't due yet. This can help you keep students on track to completing projects on time!

Assignment completion status

Progress status keeps you updated on the assignment completion. You can see how many students are in each stage of completion and check where they need reminders. Choose a yellow or red highlighted entry of the chart to see only the students who still need to finish that stage of the assignment. Select any student's name to send them a reminder message.

screenshot showing what step in the assignment process students are in, viewed, opened, turned in, or returned

Color coding indicates how near the due date of the assignment is.

Turn-in statistics

Turn-in statistics includes the number of missing submissions, those submitted late, and those returned for revision.

Select any number to see which students are in that category and whether or not they have viewed the assignment.
Select any student's name to launch a conversation with them.

screenshot of graphs indicating if students have assignments that are missing, assignments that they turned in late, or assignments that have been returned for revision.

Single student filter

With the new report, filtering for a single student provides top level information about their grade and submission trends, as well as how their performance compares to the class average.

screenshot of the insights view when filtering to a single student. data about all of their assignments and grades in the class is shown

screenshot of an individual student's performance on several assignments laid out in a graph, another line shows the class average on the same assignements

Grade trends and distribution

Select Assignments from the class overview page and scroll to Average grade. Now, the grades Distribution and Trend views are available by selecting the desired tab.

screenshot of the grade distribution graph in insights, shows how many students are at each percentage level