Last Updated: April 2026
Intended Audience: Staff using Ponder Paper for analysis
Context: Paper allows users to 'pin' examples of student work, in order to create curated samples of student work for each question response or score from multiple schools/teachers.
Important:
Who can add pinned student work: only the assigned course teachers can add pins to their exams.
Who can view pinned work: Any Ponder Paper user can view pinned work samples.
To pin student work:
- To use the pinning feature, view student work samples by choosing the Question or Standard view
- View the student work sample you would like to pin, and click on the pin icon in the righthand corner:
- After pinning, the pin icon will change color:
Note: No pinning without Illuminate data
Pinning is only available for exams with Illuminate data. Otherwise you will see this message appear:
"Pinning is only available for packets with Illuminate score data"
To view pinned work:
- Back on the home screen, select an exam and choose "View samples across schools and teachers":
- Pinned work samples across schools:
How can pinning support student work analysis?
- Pinning student work communicates to other users that the particular sample is worth looking at. Lesson planners or others who do cross-network data analysis (or other curious users) can view all of the pinned work. For example:
- Teachers might pin examples of a pattern in student misunderstandings that led students to chose B instead of the correct answer A on a multiple choice question.
- Teachers might pin the best exemplar, full-credit responses on an OER question.
- DCIs might ask teachers to pin examples of full-credit and partial-credit responses, to be used for rubric norming prior to collaborative scoring.
- Pinning student work can make it easier for teachers to revisit work samples for particular items that were interesting or helped them understand students' responses.
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