Peer Review Assignments

Create meaningful conversations about student work

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Streamline your assignment setup

Four clear stages
Guide students through each stage of the peer review process—student submission, student review,  instructor review, and student feedback—for more meaningful interactions and a seamless setup. Perusall handles the details, saving instructors time and keeping students organized and on task.
Customizable setup options
Tailor assignments, specify unique scoring criteria, and build rubrics to fit specific goals, making setup easy and feedback uniform for students.
Assignment management
Manage the peer review process with tools to address late submissions, monitor feedback quality, and maintain assignment flow.
LMS integration
From submission to feedback, instructors and students can view each step directly within their institution's learning management system, keeping everything centralized and easily accessible.
A screenshot of the peer review assignment in Perusall's assignments, introducing the four stages and deadlines and icons for the instructor.
The customizable scoring criteria that instructors can adjust for Perusall's peer review assignments.
The adjustable assignment management page in Perusall's peer review assignment. Instructors can edit reviewers, add late submission, and more.
Learning management systems logos including Blackboard Learn, Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace, Desire2Learn, Sakai

Create an interactive and social review experience

A graphic showing an essay assignment in the Perusall reader with three comments from students on the text.
A screenshot of an example rubric from an instructor on a student peer review assignment in Perusall
An example student essay in a Perusall peer review assignment that includes two comments from students replying to each other.
In-text comments
Encourage student connection and collaboration in peer reviews with interactive tools like highlighting, commenting, GIFs, and emojis—transforming the process beyond traditional critique and feedback.
Guided assessment
Help students build critical thinking and effective feedback skills by providing a detailed rubric for students to assess their peers' work.
Ongoing conversations
Extend the conversation beyond the review process to deepen students' understanding of their own work and their peers' contributions.

Ensure a supportive learning environment

Instructor feedback
Help students reflect on their strengths and areas for improvement for enhanced learning outcomes and deeper engagement.
Clear, detailed reports
Gain visibility into student engagement and feedback quality to guide students toward thoughtful participation.
Privacy and safety
Create a safe and respectful classroom by allowing instructors to control the visibility of student identities, submissions, and scores.
Teacher responds to student in comment section of the Peer Review assignment. Screenshot image of Perusall reader.
A detailed report in Perusall that shows scores and metrics on student engagement and quality.
An image showing an instructor view of a Perusall peer review assignment where they can hide or suppress a review from showing up in a student's peer review assignment.

"My students overwhelmingly liked the peer review process with Perusall. One of my students just said that the experience with this assignment was the best part of the whole semester."

- Martha Collins Smith, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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