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.

Using assignment insights to review discussion

From the assignment menu on your dashboard, you can optionally generate two distinct types of assignment insights to quickly gauge student understanding before class:

Confusion report: Groups and summarizes the specific questions students are asking about the assigned content so you can see exactly where they are struggling.
Discussion summary: Provides a brief prose overview of overall high-quality student engagement, followed by themed sections and exemplar student comments.

These reports are strictly instructor-facing and are never visible to students. For a deeper dive into how Perusall generates these insights, see How does Perusall use AI?

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 icon at the top to move to the next conversation or return to the full 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, click the Options and select Show comment scores. 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.