Relevant to: faculty and staff
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Introduction
Brightspace gradebook icons and notifications track student work and item settings. An orange warning dot indicator in your gradebook indicates that an activity (such as an assignment, discussion, or quiz) requires attention from the instructor. Depending on the type of activity being reviewed, the indicator appears based on your interactions with the learner's submission.
Indicator (Orange Warning Dot)
An indicator appears (orange warning dot) in the gradebook when a learner has:
- submitted an assignment that has not been viewed by the instructor.
- posted to a discussion topic that has not been viewed by the instructor.
- submitted a quiz attempt that requires instructor review.
Assignments
If there is more than one instructor in the course, viewing of the assignment by one instructor removes the indicator for all other instructors. If the submission is later set to Mark as Unread by an instructor, the indicator reappears for all instructors.
Publishing the assignment does not affect its read status.
Discussions
Note: If there is more than one instructor in the course, viewing of the discussion by one instructor removes the indicator for all other instructors. If the submission is later set to Mark as Unread by an instructor, the indicator reappears for all instructors.
Selecting Assess Topic automatically marks the posting as read during the grading workflow for that learner.
Quizzes
The indicator typically appears for quizzes with written response questions.
Note:
- Automatically graded quizzes do not have an indicator.
- Opening an attempt does not mark the attempt as read and does not remove the indicator.
- Publishing a grade for an attempt removes the indicator.
- Retracting a grade for an attempt causes the indicator to reappear.