Pixton Assignments, Rubrics and Grading
The Activity Maker is the most powerful and least documented part of Pixton. What you type into it changes the output far more than the dropdowns do. These guides cover prompting it well, building rubrics that survive a grading appeal, and marking a full roster without losing an evening.
The guides
What you need to know first
Work in Pixton is assigned as an Activity inside a class. Students build their project within the activity, Pixton saves as they go, and the teacher reviews everything from one place: the Activities tab, then the View Projects button. From there each submission can be graded, marked viewed, favourited, duplicated, set back to draft, changed in format, turned into a colouring page, given a voiceover, or downloaded, printed and shared.
The distinction that causes the most tickets is draft versus published. Every project is a draft until the student opens it and clicks Publish at the top right, and the View Projects screen shows only published work. A student who works for a full period and closes the laptop has saved everything and submitted nothing. Pixton also lets students set a published project back to draft at any time, which is why a comic graded last week can vanish from the view this week.
The AI Activity Maker builds standards-aligned assignments from a topic and a grade level, with editable instructions, prompts, vocabulary and a due date, and can align to eleven named reading programmes. It is the most powerful and least documented part of the product, and guides covering it are next on the list for this topic.
Pixton documents several ways to set an activity up beyond writing it from scratch: assigning one of its ready-made lesson ideas directly as an activity, attaching a remixable project so students start from a partly built comic rather than a blank panel, and using the built-in rubric inside the activity for grading. Projects can also be bulk-printed for a gallery wall, bulk-deleted at the end of a unit, and turned in to Google Classroom through Pixton’s integration. Each of those is a guide in its own right and will be added here as it is written.
Common questions
Where do I see student work in Pixton?
Inside the classroom: Activities tab, then View Projects on the activity. Only published work appears there.
Why is my student’s Pixton assignment missing?
It is almost always still a draft. The student opens it and clicks Publish at the top right. If it is published and still missing, it was made outside the activity or in a different class.
Cannot find your problem?
Tell us what went wrong and we will write the guide. In the meantime, the official Pixton help center covers the basics, and every other topic we cover is listed here.