Text Exercise
A text exercise asks you to write an answer in prose — an explanation, an argument, a comparison. You write it in Artemis, in an editor beside the task, and a tutor reads and marks it after the due date.
Start the Exercise
The exercise appears on the course's exercise list once it is released, with its due date and the points it is worth. Start exercise creates your participation; until you do that there is nothing to write into.
Write and Submit
Once you have started, opening the exercise takes you straight to the editor: the task on one side, your answer on the other, with a running word and character count above the box.
Nothing is stored while you type. Submit stores what you have written, and you can submit again as often as you like before the due date — the last version is the one that is marked.
Leaving the exercise inside Artemis stores what is in the box as well, and closing the tab asks you first. Either way, anything that reaches Artemis before the due date counts as your submission, so there is no such thing as a draft you saved but forgot to hand in.
Your Result
Text answers are marked by a person, so nothing appears straight away. Once the assessment is published you see the points, and the feedback attached to the parts of your answer it refers to.
Where your instructor has turned it on, Request AI feedback gives you preliminary feedback on a draft before the due date, with the comments attached to the passages they are about. It is a guide, not a grade: the mark that counts is the one a tutor writes afterward. See AI Feedback on a Draft for how to ask for it and the limits on how often.