Once you publish an assignment in EnlightenAI, it becomes active and can't be reverted to draft. You can still edit many details, but some fields lock. If you need a clean slate, duplicate the assignment instead — the copy is created as a fresh draft.

Publishing moves an assignment from draft to active so students can see and submit work. EnlightenAI has no "unpublish" or "revert to draft" action — that's intentional. Once students may have started, changing the underlying setup could break their submissions or invalidate grading already in progress.

Plenty. After publishing, you can update details that don't disrupt students who have already submitted, such as:

Just open the assignment and make your changes — they save in place.

The rubric locks once an assignment is active. Because EnlightenAI grades and gives feedback against the rubric, editing it after students submit would make scores inconsistent across the class. If you realize the rubric is wrong, the cleanest fix is to duplicate the assignment and adjust the copy before publishing it.

Use Duplicate. EnlightenAI creates a brand-new copy in draft state with "(Copy)" added to the title, carrying over your prompt, rubric, settings, and instructions. You can then change anything — including the rubric — and publish the copy when it's ready. Your original assignment and its student submissions stay untouched.

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