Perusall: Reviewing Student Comments

Updated on Nov 08, 2023

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Reviewing student's comments in Perusall is crucial when deciding the grade for participation. There are 2 main locations where you can access you student's comments:

In Context (Inside of the assignment)
In Tabular (The analytical/overview before opening the assignment)

For more information, you can check out Perusall's page How do I review student work?

Tip: Student assignments in Perusall are usually graded automatically. To view the grades assigned, select "Gradebook" on the left navigation panel.

How would you like to view the comments?

2. Open up the assignment, which will show all the annotated commentary that the students see. If you want to read through all of the threads, select the "All conversations" on the right (the two bubble icons).

Image of a Perusall Assignment opened. On the mid-right of the page, the “two bubble icons” is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select. This will show all the conversations in the assignment.

1. To review comments in spreadsheet format, go to your course home and select "Assignments"at the top.

Image showing to select Course home from the left menu and next select Assignments near the top after Library

2. Next, select your desired assignment and then select "All comments"

Image of the Perusall Assignment dashboard. Towards the bottom right of the dashboard, “All comments” is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select. Individual comment scores will appear for each student's comment.

3. All Comments Example

Individual comment scores will appear for each student's comment. You can change an automatically graded Perusall assignment by selecting a new score from the dropdown.

In this table, you have the option to filter down to a particular student by navigating to the student in the top dropdown menu.

Image of the Perusall assignment’s “All comments” table opened. There are 2 student submissions from top to bottom with the student information to the left and the grading analytics to the right.

4. For your convenience, Perusall provides an automatically generated Confusion Report that creates an analysis of the areas the students have confusion in. Select Confusion Report located under the assignment in the dashboard.

Note: Perusall might not have a Confusion Report generated if there is a small number of responses.