Work Groups

Work groups let you batch-assign a single task to a group of students with a shared deadline. This is the standard way to distribute writing assignments to your class.

How Work Groups Work

When you assign a task to a class or group of students, Penmate creates a work group — a collection of individual assignments all linked to the same task and deadline.

Each work group contains:

One task (the writing assignment)
One deadline (shared by all students in the group)
Individual work items for each student (their personal submission)

Creating a Work Group

Work groups are created automatically when you assign a task:

Open a task and click Assign
Select the class(es) or individual students
Set the deadline
Penmate creates the work group and sends submission links to all students

Navigating Work Groups

From a work group view, you can:

See all students in the group and their submission status
Navigate between individual student submissions using previous/next arrows
Track how many students have submitted out of the total