Progress is the per-student table for one class. It answers how much of the assigned work each student has finished and who is stuck. It does not answer how well anyone did, because Trace records completion and never computes a score or assigns a grade.
Open your class and press Progress in the sidebar. Before anyone has opened assigned work the table reads No student progress yet.
The four columns#
A line above the table describes the rows as the current question and attempt count for assigned quizzes, tests, and labs.
Student is the student's name, and pressing it opens their drawer. Done is finished-of-assigned, counting the activities assigned to this class. Needs attention is a count that always arrives with its reasons, written as a summary like "2 flagged: Overdue, Repeated tries" that opens into full sentences. Current work names the activity the student has open, the question they are on where there is one, and how many attempts they have made, or reads "No active block".
The first three columns sort when you press the header. The question-mark button next to Needs attention lists what feeds the count and ends by saying that it is not a score.
Four checks produce a flag. Unfinished means an activity was opened and not finished. Repeated tries means three or more attempts on an activity still not finished. Overdue means the student's own due date has passed with the work unfinished, using their extended date where you granted one. No recent activity means nothing assigned has been opened in seven days, or ever.
What "finished" means for each kind of activity#
An article is finished when the student has read it through to the end. A lab is finished when the student saves a run, and Trace refuses the save unless the reflection box carries the student's own observation. A quiz is finished only when all five of its questions are answered correctly, so a student may sit at three or four attempts for a while. A unit test is finished when the student reaches the passing threshold, 80% of the auto-checked questions. A worksheet is finished when the student presses Submit on it.
The course materials use two more words. A package is mastered when the student has saved its lab run and answered every quiz question correctly, and a unit is mastered when the student passes its unit test and holds every package in that unit. Each one names a set of activities finished inside one course.
The per-student drawer#
Pressing a student's name anywhere, on this table or on Students, opens the same slide-over panel. It carries their email and the day they joined, their credit balance, their attention reasons as sentences, what they have open right now with the attempt count, and every assignment with that student's effective due date, labeled "Extended to Fri Aug 29" where you granted an extension. For a quiz or unit test it lists the questions they missed. An AI-activity line shows credits spent, runs, and model calls.
The actions at the bottom grant credits, message the student, remove them from the class, and Print summary. The printed summary is the conference handout: the student, the class, today's date, the finished-of-assigned count, the attention reasons, and every assignment with its status. It says at the foot that it is progress only, and it carries no score or percentage.
Review marks and notes#
Review marks live on the assignment page. Open Assignments, press an assignment, and on each turned-in project or worksheet you get Mark reviewed and Write a note. Marking reviewed records that you looked. Writing a note sends the student short feedback and marks the work reviewed at the same time, and the student sees it as a bell notification, with a worksheet note also appearing above their submitted answers. Pressing Undo review and note clears both.
Only project and worksheet submissions can be reviewed. Articles, labs, and quizzes have nothing to turn in, so they never appear under Waiting for review.
The CSV export#
Progress CSV, at the top right of the table, downloads the class as
{class}-progress.csv. It has one row per student per activity, and nine
columns: student name, student email, the assignment titles the activity was
assigned under, the activity title, the activity type, the status, the attempt
count, the current question id, and the moment it was completed.
The file carries rows for quizzes, unit tests, and labs only, so articles and worksheets are missing from it. It also has no score column, no percentage, and no mastery level, because Trace has none to export.
Coins, badges, and the shop#
Students earn coins for finishing work and spend them in Shop on their robot buddy and its room, and they collect badges on Badges. Both items appear in the student sidebar only, so you will not see them in yours. Coins and badges are awarded by the app from the student's own progress. You cannot add coins, take them away, or hand out a badge, and none of it appears in the CSV.
Credits are a separate thing with a confusingly similar name. Credits pay for AI use, they come out of your plan's monthly balance, and you can grant them to a student from the roster or from their drawer.
Reading a saved lab reflection#
Trace stores the reflection a student writes when saving a lab run, and no teacher surface displays it. To read one, ask the student to open the lab and show you, or collect the reflection on paper as the lesson's Collect or check line suggests.
What a good one looks like is chapter-specific, and the chapter pack says so per lab. In Resources, open the chapter, stay on Guide, and find the lab notes under the lesson. They describe what students should discover, the states worth nudging toward, and what a good saved reflection contains, which is usually a claim about what the run showed together with a limit on what it cannot show.
What this page does not do#
- It does not grade. Trace assigns no grade, computes no score, and exports none.
- It does not show a students-by-assignments grid. The table is per student.
- It does not show lab reflections, project contents, or worksheet answers. Worksheet answers are on the assignment page; lab reflections are on the student's screen.
- It does not update while you watch it. Reload to see new work.
- It does not let you award, remove, or adjust coins and badges.