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# Status of Assessments
> Understand the four assignment statuses in Pear Assessment and how they progress from Not Open to Done
When you assign a test to students, Pear Assessment tracks its progress as an assignment. Assignments move through four statuses as students complete their work and teachers finalize grades.
## View Assignment Progress
To check the progress of an assignment:
1. Click the **Assignments** tab in the navigation menu.
2. Click the name of an assignment in the list.
3. Review the progress summary at the bottom of the screen, which shows how many students have been assigned, how many have submitted, and how many have been graded.
## Assignment Statuses
* **Not Open**: The assignment is not yet available to students. This status is used when planning a future assessment , for example, when the start date is in the future. The teacher or administrator must open the assignment before students can begin.
* **In Progress**: The assignment is open and available for students to work on. The status changes to **In Grading** when the due date passes, the assignment is manually closed, or all students in the class have submitted.
* **In Grading**: All students have submitted their work or the due date has passed. Teachers finalize scores, enter feedback, and manually grade any open-response questions such as essays or drawing responses. Click **Mark as Done** to move the assignment to **Done**. To share grades with students, enable **Release Scores**.
* **Done**: Grading is complete. Pear Assessment generates reports automatically when an assignment reaches this status.
An assignment can return to **In Progress** from **In Grading** if the **Redirect** feature is used to ask students to redo their work.
## FAQ
### Why Don't Assessments Appear in Reports Even Though They Are Assigned and Completed?
The assessments are still in **In Grading** status and have not yet moved to **Done**. If a close date is set, the assignment moves to **Done** automatically when all assessments are graded and the due date has passed.
Teachers must complete the full grading flow for reports to generate. If all questions are auto-graded (no open-response questions requiring manual grading), student responses are graded automatically upon submission.