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The two-step feedback process: review each student individually, then publish to your class when you are ready.

Updated 17 July 2026

Watch the video above, or follow the steps below.

This is a high-level overview of how feedback works in Nurture. It covers how you create feedback for students one at a time, and how you then publish it to them. The detail on each part is covered in the tutorials that follow.

**Practise with a sample assessment:** you can try all of this before using it with a real class. Click the **gear icon** and select **Sample Assessment**. Nurture creates a task with fake student submissions for you to practise on.

## The two-step process

Feedback in Nurture works in two stages. First, you review each student’s work individually (their feedback and, on a graded task, their score). Then, once you are happy, you publish feedback to your students. Reviewing a student does not automatically publish anything to them. Publishing is always a separate, deliberate step that you control.

## The three lists

On the task page you will see three lists:

-   **To review:** students you have not finished yet.
-   **Reviewed:** students whose feedback and score are set, but who have not had feedback published to them.
-   **Published:** students who can now see their feedback.

## Inside a student’s submission

When you open a submission you can see the student’s confidence level, the personal comment they left you, and their work. If a student typed their answers into Nurture, you will see them here. If they submitted or handed their work in another way, you can upload it (covered in a later tutorial).

Below that is the personal feedback section. Once a student’s work is present, the Nurture AI Assistant drafts feedback automatically. You can approve the draft or edit it further. On a graded task there is also a score section that works the same way. On an ungraded task there is no score section.

## What you need to mark a student as reviewed

Only two fields are required: the **feedback comment** and the **score**. On an ungraded task, only the feedback comment is required. If either required field is left blank, the student moves back to the “to review” list.

Two things are optional:

-   **Success criteria the student needs to work on:** the Assistant selects these for you, and they tell the student which criteria they did not meet. You can turn them on or off.
-   **Score breakdown:** if you remove it, the student just gets their final grade without the breakdown. Not required to mark a student as reviewed.

## Publishing

Once you have reviewed as many students as you like, click **Publish Feedback**. When you publish, you are asked how students should reflect on their feedback. Students then complete a reflection to unlock their grade: they can see their feedback once published, but their score stays hidden until they reflect. This is covered in detail in the publishing tutorial.

[Previous Creating Canvas Assignments with Nurture](https://www.gonurture.com/tutorials/assessments/task-creation/creating-canvas-assignments-with-nurture.md) [Next How to Edit AI Feedback in Nurture](https://www.gonurture.com/tutorials/assessments/feedback/how-to-edit-ai-feedback-in-nurture.md)

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