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Perusall: In Depth Grading Guide

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Perusall really shines through their grading system. This guide will review basics on how the Perusall grading system is set up and how to apply scoring settings to your entire course or to an individual assignment.

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Setting Scoring for your Entire Course (select dropdown to view)

For more on threshold scoring, please visit Perusall's support page,  What is threshold scoring?

Image showing the General options settings in Perusall scoring settings. More information about each setting is available below each setting.

Perusall scoring weights add up to more than 100% so students have multiple ways to earn full credit, playing to their strengths. Learn more about scoring in Perusall

Image showing Perusall scoring presets available under Automatic scoring criteria in the Scoring section.
Image of the Perusall course page and showing the Settings screens under Automatic scoring with the Save button in the bottom-right corner being selected.
Perusall Scoring Metrics (select dropdown to view)

Overview of Perusall scoring metrics shown in the image above

  • Annotation content: The content of the comments students post, automatically scored by Perusall's quality algorithm.
  • Opening assignment: Breaking up work on the assignment into multiple sittings.
  • Reading to the end: Reading the entire document.
  • Active engagement time: Time spent actively engaging with the assignment.
  • Getting responses: Writing comments that elicit responses from other students.
  • Upvoting: Writing comments that are upvoted by other students, and upvoting other students' comments.
  • Quizzes: Responding to quiz questions that are part of an assignment.

Once you have selected all your desired settings, select Save changes. You have now set up a course grading system that will be applied to all assignments in this course.

Custom Scoring for an Individual Assignment (select dropdown to view)

After setting up a scoring system for the entire course, you can still customize scoring in individual assignments which will only change the scoring settings for a specific assignment. Follow these steps to set this up.

Image showing a Perusall course and Course home selected showing to select the Assignments tab after Library.
Image showing to navigate to an assignment and select the Edit button after the Open button
Image showing to navigate to the Scoring tab found after Content and Options on the Assignment settings pop up window

For more information, see Perusall's What is threshold scoring?

Image showing the General options first Assginment score range and then threshold score for credit.

Follow the guidance listed above in Setting Scoring for your Entire Course.  

Image showing Perusall scoring presets available under Automatic scoring criteria in the Scoring section.
Perusall Scoring Metrics (select dropdown to view)

Overview of Perusall scoring metrics shown in the image above

  • Annotation content: The content of the comments students post, automatically scored by Perusall's quality algorithm.
  • Opening assignment: Breaking up work on the assignment into multiple sittings.
  • Reading to the end: Reading the entire document.
  • Active engagement time: Time spent actively engaging with the assignment.
  • Getting responses: Writing comments that elicit responses from other students.
  • Upvoting: Writing comments that are upvoted by other students, and upvoting other students' comments.
  • Quizzes: Responding to quiz questions that are part of an assignment.

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