Set submission rules

At a glance

Score Policy decides which submission counts toward the grade, how many attempts learners may submit, late penalties, and grading strategies (e.g. most recent vs highest).

Prerequisites

• Lesson view → Score Policy panel.

Steps

1. Open Score Policy and click Add or edit an existing policy.

2. Set Policy will affect (same target types as Access Policy: all learners, cohort, group, or specific students).

3. Configure submission rules:

   • Submission limit (when shown)
   • Late penalty toggles and penalty amounts/units
   • Grading strategy — e.g. most recent, highest, first attempt, average
   • Options such as allowing scores above max or negative scores when available

4. Save. The All Learners score policy cannot be deleted.

Cohort-specific policies can be reordered when multiple apply.

Common gotchas

• Lightning Grader opens the policy-selected submission first; learners may have other attempts in Score history.
• Creating a new policy for a cohort may pre-fill defaults from the all-learners policy.

Next steps

• Grade a lesson with Lightning Grader
• Score modifiers