Review your student's work in tasks

Educator

Xello K-5

5 minutes

As students progress through their Completion Standards tasks in Xello, you can monitor their journey and provide timely support where needed. View their work on their student profile or run a report to quickly check in on their progress, review their submissions, and encourage them to complete their goals. Whether you want to view a student’s reflection in a Xello Lesson, mark a task as exempt, or approve their work when required, there are a couple different ways to manage and track your students' success.

Review your student's progress

Check in and see how your students are progressing with their Completion Standards tasks. View if they've completed the task, exempt or approve their work when necessary, and use this opportunity to encourage those who need it.

To review your student's progress in Completion Standards tasks:

In the search bar located at the top of any page in your educator account, enter the student's name or ID.
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Tip: Alternatively, from the left menu, click Students and select Student list to browse the full list of students.
Click on the student's name. The About student tab of their profile opens.
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From the top of the page, click the Completion Standards tab.
- By default, the list is filtered to show assigned tasks. Click Include optional tasks to include optional ones.
- To view tasks and lessons from previous grades, click Include lower grade tasks.
- To mark the student exempt from completing the task, switch the toggle to Yes.
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For Xello Lessons and custom tasks, click the name of the task to open and view the student's work.
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- View their reflection answers in Xello Lessons.
- For custom tasks, depending on the requirements, read their text response or open the attached file.
Note: If the Completion Standards configuration was set up for the lesson or task to require educator approval, you'll also see the option to Mark as approved. The task will show as incomplete here and in reports until marked as approved. For students, the task will be marked as In review until it's been approved by an educator.

Review student work by task

One way to view how many students have completed specific tasks, is to run a Completion Standards by task report. Use this report to quickly view which students need some encouragement to complete a task and send them a message.

For Xello Lessons and custom tasks, when you click the student's name from the report, it'll open their submissions, giving you immediate access to their work.

To run a report on Completion Standards by task:

In your educator account, click Reports and select Completion Standards.
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Ensure the correct grade range is selected
Locate the task and click its name.
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This will open the task modal where you can get a reminder of what's required in the task, who it's assigned to, and view helpful related resources.
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Click View report to open the task's report. From this report page, you can do the following:
- Apply Filters to narrow the list by grade, school (only at the district level), group, completion status, and more.
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- Click Add to group to add selected students to a new or existing group.
- Send message will open a modal where you can to send an in-context message to the selected students.
- Click the Mark as... dropdown to exempt students from completing the task.
Click on a student name to open their profile where you can view their progress on all their assigned tasks, or if it's a Xello Lesson or custom task, view their submission.

Mark a task as exempt or approved

If it's needed, you can exempt a student from completing a task. This will mark the task as Complete (exempt) when you run a report or view their student profile. For students, the task will move to the Done section of their To-do list.

The Completion Standards configuration at your school may require an educator to Mark as approved Xello Lessons or custom tasks. If this is the case, in reports and on the student profile, the task will have a completion status of Incomplete (in review) until it's been approved. For students, the task will show as In review until it's been approved, at which point it will move to the Done section.

List of completion statuses. They are "Incomplete", "Incomplete (in review)", "Complete", and "Complete (exempt)".

You can exempt or approve student work in bulk. This could be helpful if you have a group of students who are not required to complete the task. Or, this might be helpful if you reviewed their work with them while in the classroom and before they've submitted in Xello and you wish to mark them all as approved.

Note: Marking multiple submissions as approved at once means you will not be opening and viewing their work before marking it.

To mark a task as exempt or approved:

Open the task by running a Completion Standards by task report (for a reminder on how, see Review student work by task above).
From the task report page, in each student's row, toggle Mark as exempt or Mark as approved.

For multiple students at once:

From the task report page, click the box next to the name of each student whose work you want to approve. A couple tips:
- Apply Filters to narrow the list by grade, school (only at the district level), group, completion status, and more.
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- Click the box next to Selected (0) to select every student in the list. If you've applied filters, this will select only the students in your filtered list.
Click the Mark as... dropdown and select the appropriate option.
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Note: You can only Mark as approved if the student has submitted work. The completion status will show as Incomplete (in review).