# Gradebook, scores and skills

> See every score for an assignment in the gradebook, download it as Excel or CSV, and follow each student’s progress by assignment and by skill.

URL: https://learnworkly.com/help/progress/gradebook-and-skills · Updated 2026-11-11

LearnWorkly keeps scores in two places. The **Gradebook** shows one assignment: every student, every question and their total. The **Student progress** page shows one student across all the work you have assigned to their class, with a score for each assignment and for each skill.

## Open the gradebook for an assignment

1. **Open the assignment** Go to **Assignments** (or to the class page, under **Assigned to this class**) and open the assignment you want to check.
2. **Switch to Gradebook** Above the student list, choose **Gradebook**. **By question** shows the answers to one question at a time, and **Insights** shows how the class did as a whole.
3. **Read the grid** Each row is a student and each column is a question (**Q1**, **Q2**…). A cell shows the points for that answer, or **Grade** when the answer is waiting for you. The last column is the total.
4. **Open an answer** Click a cell to see the answer and give feedback. To mark everything still waiting, use **Grade answers** and LearnWorkly takes you from one answer to the next.

*[Screenshot: The Gradebook view of an assignment: a row per student with points for each question, yellow Grade cells for answers still to mark, and the total on the right.]*

## Filters above the grid

- **All**, **To grade** and **Not started** are always there.
- **Submitted** and **Working** appear for self-paced assignments, and **Late** when the assignment has a due date.
- **Passed** and **Not passed** appear when the assignment has a pass mark.
- **Find a student** searches by name.
- **Hide names** replaces names on screen, which is useful when you share your screen with the class.

## Download the gradebook

Click **Download** and choose a format. **Excel (.xlsx)** has two sheets: scores for every student, and an analysis of each question (how many answered, the share of full marks, the average points and the most common wrong answer). **CSV** has the scores only.

The file is built in your browser from what is already on screen, and it always uses students’ real names, even when **Hide names** is on.

## Follow one student over time

On a class page, click a student’s name in the **Students** list to open their progress page. At the top you see their **Average score**, how many self-paced assignments they have **Submitted**, and how many are **Late or missing**.

**Score by assignment** is a bar for each graded assignment, oldest to newest. Below it, the **Assignments** table lists everything assigned to the class with its status (for example **Submitted**, **Submitted late**, **Missing** or **Not started**) and the score. Click an activity to open that assignment.

## Only graded answers count

> **Only graded answers count:** Percentages on the progress page count graded answers only, so work that is still waiting for you does not pull a student’s score down. The table shows how many answers are still to grade.

## See progress by skill

1. **Tag your questions** In the activity editor, type a skill or topic in the **Add a skill or topic (optional)** field under a question and press Enter. A question can have several skills.
2. **Assign and grade** Once answers with that skill are graded, the skill appears in the **By skill** list on each student’s progress page.
3. **Read the list** Skills are sorted weakest first, with a percentage and the number of graded answers. **Improving** or **Slipping** appears when a student’s last three assignments differ clearly from the ones before.

## Frequently asked questions

**Why is a skill missing from the By skill list?**
The list only shows skills on questions that have graded answers from that student. Tag the question in the editor, and grade the answers that are waiting.

**Does the gradebook show late penalties?**
Yes. If the assignment has a late penalty, the total shows how many points were taken off, and the Excel file has **Late penalty** and **Final** columns.

**Can I see how the whole class did on each question?**
Yes. Choose **Insights** in the assignment for the score distribution, the average, median, highest and lowest score, and how each question went. You can sort questions **Hardest first**.