How do I review student work?

Student work in Perusall can be graded either manually or automatically. To view grades, click Gradebook in the left-hand navigation panel of your course. To see a detailed breakdown of a student’s performance on a specific assignment, simply click on their grade for that assignment.

Perusall also provides you with an automatically-generated Confusion Report that summarizes general areas of questions/confusion. Click the Confusion report button underneath an assignment in the dashboard.

The Confusion Report may not be available for assignments where there are only a small number of high-quality questions for Perusall to analyze.

Review student work in more detail:

• Open the assignment to view all highlights and conversations just as students see them. To easily browse through all discussion threads, click All Conversations (the two speech bubble icons on the right). 

  

   

• From there, you can click on any thread to read it, then use the Next thread or Next unread buttons to move to the next conversation or unread threads.  You can always click the All conversations icon to return to the full conversation list.

• To view only a single student's comments, click the filter dropdown menu (which says All Comments by default), and select Specific student.

  

• To view the individual score assigned to each comment while reading, select the three vertical dots next to their comment.  To adjust Perusall's automatically-generated score , simply click on the score and choose a new one from the dropdown menu.

  

• To review comments in a spreadsheet format, go to your course dashboard, select Assignments at the top, click on an assignment, and then click All comments.  Individual comment scores will show for each comment in this view, and you can change a score from Perusall's automatically-generated score by clicking on the score and selecting a new score from the dropdown.

  When looking at the comments in this table, you can filter down to a particular student by selecting that student from the dropdown menu at the top of the window.