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A checklist before handing in

Ten things you check before you send a teacher a link.

Hand in ≠ click Share and run

A teacher opens the workbook and in five seconds sees if you finished it. An empty cell, the wrong account, “anyone can edit” — those are needless minus points.

A checklist is go through with your eyes, not magic. Go through it before every hand-in.

💡

You can copy the list into sheet ملاحظةs in cell A10. Or print a PDF of the check and tick with a pencil. What matters is to go through it every time.

Ten check points

  1. The right account — the circle top right shows your email.
  2. Workbook name — not “Untitled”. The teacher recognises the task.
  3. The right sheet — the teacher knows to look at Grades, not at ملاحظةs.
  4. Headings in row 1Subject, Grade. Bold (after Cell kid).
  5. Data from row 2 — no subject in the heading.
  6. Numbers are numbers — grades on the right, not the text “two”.
  7. Saved — at the top “Saved to Drive”, not a hanging “Saving…” for an hour.
  8. Sharing — the teacher is Viewer or Editor, as they said. Not “the whole internet”.
  9. No #ERROR! — empty cells in formulas (when you have them) you fix first.
  10. The link works — open the workbook in a private window or send it to a parent to click.

Go through the workbook like a teacher

  1. Open Tables with Martin. You do not have to turn on view only — just imagine you cannot change anything.

  2. Go through sheet Grades from the top down. A subject missing? Is a grade in A instead of B?

  3. Click Share. Is access restricted? Is the teacher there with Viewer?

  4. Top left the name. At the bottom the right tab active.

⚠️

Handing in an old version. You downloaded a PDF yesterday and today you changed grades. The PDF is old. You hand in an online link or a new PDF. The teacher must see the current state.

A mini checklist in the spreadsheet

Into ملاحظةs you can write your own check table:

DoneCheck
الحساب right
Workbook name
Sheet Grades
Headings
Sharing OK

Into column A text, into B YES / NO. It is meta — a spreadsheet checking a spreadsheet.

🏫 Grade average One sheet, two columns: subject and grade. At the bottom a sum and an average.
💰 Pocket money Rows = days, columns = income / spend / left.
📊 Class survey One question, answers in one column, later a chart.
🏆 Mini dashboard Three numbers at the top and one chart. Numbers as a link, not copied by hand.

Now you 💪

Go through all ten points on your workbook. For each one say out loud YES or NO.

  1. When it is NO, fix it at once (name, sharing, a grade as text…).
  2. Write into ملاحظةs the date of the last check: Check 2026-08-20 OK.
  3. إرسال a parent the link — let them open it, if they see sheet Grades.
  4. Do not skip any point.

Check: You have a habit of going through the list before handing in. The teacher will see a tidy workbook, not chaos.

What to take from this lesson