Pinning Student Work

Last Updated: November 2023

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.