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Instructors are invited by their institution or can request access from the Penciil team. Once you receive an invitation, claim your account, set a password, and you can create your first course right away.

Grades stay hidden until an instructor releases results for an assessment. Students then see their scores and per-question feedback the moment results are shared for that assessment.

Yes. Instructors and course owners can review, adjust, or override any grader's scores and comments on a response before results are released — so there's less room for errors to reach students.

Graders mark one question across the whole cohort instead of full scripts. That focus means no mental math juggling scores from question to question, and less room for errors when rubrics and comments stay anchored to a single problem.

Each course has owners, instructors, graders, and students. Owners and instructors manage structure and results release; graders mark only the responses assigned to them; students submit and view results.

No. Penciil does not read your LMS class list, even when the course is connected over LTI. The roster is Penciil's own — add students on the course Students page or import a CSV. Printed booklets are generated from that roster, so it has to be correct before an assessment regardless of what the LMS shows. An LTI launch proves who someone is and resolves which course they land on; it never enrols anyone.