Releasing a result makes the report visible to the student. The student sees a session summary, descriptive metrics, and suggestions for further study; the traffic light, per question scores, transcript, incident logs, and session replay remain on the lecturer side.
Release Mode determines whether you release manually
The viva's Release Mode, configured in Viva Settings, controls how reports reach students:
- Immediately. The report is released automatically once Integrevise finishes grading. No action is required from you in the standard case.
- After publish. The report remains hidden until you release it. Use this when each report is to be reviewed before students see it.
If a viva is configured for Immediately, this article applies to exceptions: attempts to revise, hold back, or handle individually. If a viva is configured for After publish, every report is released by you.
Releasing from the viva overview
Two bulk actions appear above the students table on the viva overview:
- Publish All Results. Releases every completed attempt in the cohort.
- Publish Successful Results. Releases only Green attempts.
Both actions run in the background; completion time scales with cohort size. Individual attempts can also be released from a student's report when bulk action is not appropriate.
Choosing the right action
Publish All Results is appropriate when the cohort has been reviewed (or sampled) and the drafts are acceptable, when the assessment is low stakes, or when feedback turnaround takes priority over the grade.
Publish Successful Results is appropriate when Green attempts can be released first while Amber and Red attempts are reviewed individually, when the cohort is large, or when institutional policy requires non satisfactory results to be reviewed one by one before release.
When Publish Successful Results is used, Amber and Red attempts remain unreleased. Each can be reviewed and released individually from its report.
Before releasing
A short check before a bulk release reduces the chance of issues afterwards:
- Pending incidents have been resolved or dismissed.
- Red attempts have been read in detail, not just by traffic light.
- Open disputes are excluded from the batch and handled separately.
- Summaries that are known to be wrong have been edited; the summary is what the student sees.
What the student sees
When a result is released — either by Release Mode set to Immediately, or because the result has been released manually — the viva card on the student's dashboard changes to View Results. The result page contains:
- The summary (the edited version where the summary has been changed; the AI draft otherwise).
- Session metrics: duration, questions answered, and topic coverage.
- Suggestions for further study.
The student view does not include the traffic light, per question scores, transcript, incidents, or replay. Conversations about an overall grade or a per question breakdown happen between you and the student outside the platform.
Amending a released result
If a released result needs to change, the recommended approach is to discuss the change with the student rather than altering the published report silently.
The available routes are:
- Editing the summary on the report. The change is reflected in the student's results page.
- For corrections to scoring, raising the change through your institution's grading records process.
- For a substantively different outcome, granting another attempt and re running the assessment.
Re releasing is not a routine action and is best handled as the exception.
Communicating with students
Whether students are emailed automatically when a result is released depends on your institution's configuration. The student view can be previewed from the report. If notifications are not being sent and a notice is appropriate, the LMS is the usual channel.
Where a cohort includes several Red outcomes, a cohort wide note about the format of the report and where to raise concerns can be sent before release, depending on what is usual practice for the module.
Summary
- Release Mode = Immediately: results release automatically on grading. Manual action is the exception.
- Release Mode = After publish: each result is released manually.
- Publish All Results for reviewed or low stakes cohorts.
- Publish Successful Results for staged releases.
- Amber and Red attempts are released individually after review.
- Released results are not amended silently.