How to sign-off and grade Employee Training submissions
As an Admin or Manager with training permissions, you can grade short answer quiz questions and review task sign-off requests in 7shifts. Grading is done on the web app. Sign-offs can be reviewed from both the web and mobile app.
7shifts Employee Training is now available on the Premium plan! Admins and Managers can still create Lessons and Courses, but publishing, assigning, and other key actions require a Premium plan. You'll be prompted to upgrade when you hit one of these actions. Employees will no longer have access to Training on web or mobile until the account upgrades. All content and progress data is preserved, and once you're on Premium, you and your team can pick up right where you left off.
Things to know
⚠️ Important: Managers and Assistant Managers need the "Can view training" permission to grade quizzes and approve task sign-off requests.
- Managers and Assistant Managers can only grade quizzes and review sign-offs for employees in their assigned Locations and Departments.
- A badge on the Traning nav item and on the Needs review tab shows how many requests are pending. Approving a sign-off or grading a short answer updates the count right away.
- Employees don't receive a notification for feedback given on short answer grading or task sign-offs at this time.
Short answer quiz grading
When an employee submits a short answer that needs grading, you'll receive an email notification if you're assigned to the same Location and Department as the employee.
You can click Grade Answer in the email to go directly to the employee's course on the web app, or follow these steps.
- From the web app, navigate to Training > Courses.
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Select the Needs review tab.
- Find the short answer request. Search by employee name or request title, or use the status filter (the tab defaults to Pending).
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Select the row to open the employee's submitted short answer response.
- Review their answer against the rubric, leave feedback (optional), and select Correct or Incorrect.
Note: The rubric only appears if details were added when the quiz was created.
Approve task sign-off requests
When an employee completes a task requiring a manager sign-off, you can review and approve it from the mobile or web app.
When you have pending sign-offs, a Training block appears in your actionable request blocks at the top of the mobile dashboard. Tap it to go directly to your sign-off queue.
You can also access sign-offs from the Training screen:
- Open the 7shifts mobile app.
- Tap More from the bottom navigation.
- Select Training.
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Select the Needs review tab to see all pending sign-off requests.
- Tap any request to open the review sheet and view the employee's submitted task and comments.
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Leave feedback (optional) and choose Approve to mark the task complete.
- From the web app, navigate to Training > Courses.
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Select the Needs review tab to see all pending task sign-off and short answer requests.
- Find the task sign-off request. Search by employee name or request title, or use the status filter (the tab defaults to Pending).
- Select the row to open the employee's submitted task and comments.
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Leave feedback (optional) and click Sign off to mark the task complete.
Next Steps
- Learn more on How to track Employee Training progress.