How do Review-Based Assignments work?

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Perusall offers three types of Review-Based Assignments.   

These assignments allow students to upload work independently, which is then reviewed via in-text comments & scored using Rubrics, and offer an opportunity for authors to respond to the comments to promote further conversation.

The stages of Review-Based Assignments

Each Review-Based Assignment progresses through sequential stages, with each stage opening and closing according to the deadlines you’ve set. All participants move through the stages together.

  • In the Submission phase, students submit their work.  Students can upload documents with the following formats:

    • PDF
    • Word document
    • Images
    • Source code

    They can re-upload documents until the submission deadline has passed. On this page, they will also see the Rubric that reviewers will use to evaluate their work.  

    During this phase and the next, instructors can upload a late submission on behalf of a student by clicking +Add submission on behalf of a student.  This helps to mitigate any technical upload issues from the student perspective.  

    Students will receive credit for the Submission scoring component for documents submitted on their behalf.

  • During Review of submissions, reviewers can complete the following activities while reading their assigned document(s):

    • Create in-text comments to provide specific feedback, by highlighting text or a figure within the document and adding a comment.
    • Use the Rubric to assign scores based on the instructor-specified criteria.
    • Provide Overall feedback to the author.

    Authors will not be able to access their document with reviewer feedback until the Author review and response stage.

    If you’re creating an Instructor review assignment, this stage and its function will be your Instructor review period.

    If you’re creating a Peer review or Fishbowl review assignment, navigate to Course Home > Assignments, and select the assignment to see an overview of Student review progress and a list of Students without completed submissions (i.e. student who have not filled out and submitted rubrics).

    Within Student review progress, you see a list of Submission authors, Reviewers, and number of Peer reviews submitted. Click Edit reviewers to adjust the assigned reviewers for a specific submission.

  • With Peer review and Fishbowl review assignments, the Instructor review period gives you an opportunity to

    • Review in-text comments provided by students, and provide your own.
    • Review and moderate Rubric score submissions and Overall feedback.

    Enter the assignment by clicking Open, and select a student from the dropdown to see their perspective.  You’ll see their document with highlights showing in-text comments from their reviewers, as well as the submitted Rubric scores and Overall feedback.

    You can moderate reviews using the follow options within the Include this review toggle:

    • Include this review means that when this assignment moves to the next stage, the author will see the reviewer’s submitted Rubric scores and Overall feedback.
    • Hide feedback from author includes the Rubric as part of the submission’s score, but hides the Overall feedback from the author.
    • Suppress this review excludes the Rubric from the submission’s score, and hides it completely from the author.

    Students will not have access to the assignment during this stage.  

    If you’d like to skip this period, enable Omit instructor review period when creating your assignment. 

  • During the Author review and response stage, students see the scores and comments entered by reviewers, and respond to the in-text comments. Authors’ replies to in-text comments left by their reviewers earn credit toward the Authors responding to in-text comments component.
     

After the Student work submission deadline has passed, you will notice two additional features when you navigate to Course Home > Assignments, and select your Review-Based Assignment:

  • Use Preview Submission to view student uploads within the assignment.  Select a student from the dropdown, and you will be able to view their submission, and take personal Notes.
  • Use Find submissions in Library to be directed to the upload folder that has been auto-created and populated with submissions from your specific Review-Based Assignment.

Setting up a Review-Based Assignment

  • To create one of these Review-Based Assignments, navigate to the Assignments tab of your course, select Add assignment, and then choose your desired assignment type from the three options listed above.
  • Under Basics, name the assignment and set the deadlines for each stage in chronological order. 

    For Fishbowl review assignments, make sure to select Students assigned to upload materials before moving on to the next step. These students will be assigned to upload materials only, with the remaining students assigned to review submissions. Authors won't be required to review any submissions.
    • If you select to Allow late submissions, which is not available for Fishbowl review assignments, you’ll be prompted with two more fields:
      • Enter a Late submission deadline to allow students to upload work for partial credit by this deadline.  This time will occur immediately after the Student work submission deadline.  As a result, those students will have less time during the Review of submissions stage.
      • Enter a Late submission penalty, a percentage penalty for submitting work late (0-100).
    • If you enable Omit instructor review period, authors will see the Rubric scores and Overall feedback immediately after the Review of submissions stage.  

      You can still moderate the submitted Peer Reviews within the assignment or via Pen to Square Regular.svgGrade assignment.

  • Under Rubric, select a Rubric for evaluation of submissions using the dropdown menu, create a new Rubric for this assignment, or choose Qualitative feedback only (no rubric) to remove the Rubric from the assignment. Learn more about customizing your rubrics.

    • Enable Do not ask reviewers to provide overall feedback if you don’t want to require students to submit Overall feedback. Students will still be required to submit in-text comments.

    Enabling Qualitative feedback only (no rubric) & Do not ask reviewers to provide Overall feedback are currently housed under Basics, but will be moving to the Rubric tab soon.

  • Under Options, specify further details, such as instructions for students, assignment availability, who should receive the assignments, and your policy regarding anonymity.
  • Under Scoring, select your Scoring template for this assignment from the dropdown, or create a custom one. Learn more about scoring templates.

Reviewing Scores & Analytics

You can review individual student Rubric scores within the context of the assignment by clicking Open. You can also view each student’s scoring breakdown, including all scoring components, by clicking Pen to Square Regular.svg Grade assignment.  

  • Engagement Metrics

    Within engagement metrics, you can see how the students scored based on each scoring metric used in your scoring template. Learn more about how each scoring component works. 

    You can also view/manage Rubric submissions and Overall feedback from assigned reviewers directly in this window.


     

    Learn more about what analytics are available for Review-Based Assignments.

  • Overall feedback submitted on others work

    View the Overall feedback submitted by the student on documents they were assigned to review.

  • In-text comments submitted on others’ work

    Similar to highlights and comments in a Standard assignment, you can view in-text comments submitted by the student on documents they were assigned to review.

  • Comments submitted in response to reviews

    View the student’s replies to their reviewers’ in-text comments on their submission.

 

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