# Grading/Solutions **URL:** \ **Category:** CS Discoveries\ **Tags:** csd-unit-3\ **Created:** [August 29, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/grading-solutions/36807 "2022-08-29T17:15:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![mwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.code.org/mwood/32/4941_2.png) [@mwood](https://forum.code.org/u/mwood)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.code.org/t/grading-solutions/36807/2 "2022-08-29T17:47:17Z")
@kim.conant, The green bubble system has been described as “something of an artifact from the curriculum development tools we use here at [Code.org](http://code.org/). There’s certainly instances when they’re useful for tracking student progress, but the curriculum team wouldn’t advise just looking at bubble colors without ever examining student code more closely.” [Here is an FAQ answer](https://support.code.org/hc/en-us/articles/360027945211-Why-do-my-students-level-bubbles-turn-green-even-if-they-don-t-have-the-right-answer-) on why all levels aren’t (or can’t be) fully validated. So, there are a lot of different strategies teachers use. I tend to do what [this teacher suggests](https://forum.code.org/t/student-progress-and-the-exporting-the-green-circles/6447/2) (ie. check certain levels). Some of my students caught on to that fact, so then I started telling them they had to do them all and I would check 1 or 2 levels per lesson, but I didn’t tell them which lessons I was going to check. That works for me. This doesn’t meet everyone’s needs and [code.org](http://code.org) is aware of that. [This post](https://forum.code.org/t/making-progress-on-the-green-bubble-problem-level-bubbles-no-longer-turn-green-without-code-changes/33618) is one of their most recent attempts to help out, but if you have suggestions of other things they could try and implement, you can certainly contact them at [support@code.org](mailto:support@code.org). There are other discussion threads discussing teacher strategies for grading throughout the forum. Most of us have found a way to make it work for us, but also eagerly look forward to updated methods! Mike --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.code.org/t/grading-solutions/36807)._