Peer review & portfolios

Peer review routes a submitted attempt to named reviewers who score it and leave written feedback. Portfolios collect a learner’s work as a set of artifacts they build up over time and submit as one body of evidence. Both work for any context: a class, a cohort, a training team, or a customer segment.

Availability

Plan: every plan — neither is plan-gated. Permission: anyone can see the peer review surface and their own assignments; the Assign tab and the All portfolios view need permission to update assessments (organization admins, instructors, and facilitators by default).

Not in the navigation: peer review lives under Assessments → Grading & Review → Peer review. The three portfolio surfaces — the portfolio list, the assessor workspace, and the milestone editor — have no navigation entry at all today and are reached only by their direct URLs. Ask Lurno if you need them surfaced for your organization.

Don’t see this in your account? See Plans, permissions & modules.

What this does

Peer review is manual and per-attempt: after a learner submits, someone with permission picks up to three named reviewers for that one submission, sets each reviewer’s role, optionally sets a due date, and decides whether the review is blind. Reviewers score against three fixed criteria and leave feedback. When two reviewers disagree, the attempt lands in a reconciliation queue where an adjudicator sets the final score.

A portfolio is a container tied to a portfolio-type assessment. The learner opens their portfolio, adds artifacts — a link, a document, an image, an audio or video file, a code repository — each with an optional written reflection and competency tags, then submits the whole thing for review. An assessor reads the artifacts, writes overall feedback, and moves the portfolio through review statuses.

“Learners” is Lurno’s default term and may be renamed in your organization — see Terminology.

Before you start

• You need people enrolled and work actually submitted. Only submitted attempts can be assigned to peer reviewers, and only a portfolio with at least one artifact can be submitted. See Enrolling people & groups.
• For peer review, set the assessment’s grading method to Peer review on its Grading view first, so the grading policy matches what you’re doing. See Grading & feedback.
• For portfolios, create an assessment of type Portfolio task. See Building an assessment.

Assign peer reviewers

1. Go to Assessments → Grading & Review and choose Peer review on the rail. The page is titled Peer Assessment.
2. Pick a specific assessment from the filter at the top. The Assign tab stays empty until you do — it can’t work across all assessments at once.
3. Open the Assign tab. It lists every submitted attempt for that assessment with the learner’s name and current status. Attempts that haven’t been submitted are hidden.
4. Choose Assign on a row.
5. In the dialog, search for and select 1–3 reviewers, set the Role (Primary, Secondary, or Adjudicator), optionally set a Due date, and leave Blind review on if reviewers shouldn’t see each other’s marks.
6. Choose Assign reviewers.

Assignment is one submission at a time. There is no automatic distribution, no “reviewers per submission” setting, and no reassign control — to change reviewers, assign different people.

Do a peer review

Reviewers open the same page and use the My Assignments tab, headed Review Queue. It only ever lists assignments made to you. Opening a row shows the assessment, the reviewer’s role, the assignment status, the due date, and a Blind badge when the review is blind.

1. Choose Start Review. The submission stays locked to scoring until you do.
2. Score each of the three criteria — a number plus optional written feedback per criterion. The criteria are generic placeholders labelled Criterion 1, Criterion 2, and Criterion 3; the peer surface does not load a rubric you’ve defined elsewhere.
3. Choose Submit Review.

The scoring sheet does not render the work being reviewed. Reviewers need the submission in front of them some other way — link it from the assessment or section instructions, or have learners submit a shareable link.

Once a review is completed its submitted scores become read-only, and each one carries a five-star Feedback quality control for rating how useful that piece of feedback was.

Resolve a score disagreement

The Reconciliations tab is the Score Divergence Queue. Each row is an attempt where the primary and secondary scores diverged.

1. Open a row. The Score Reconciliation sheet shows Primary, Secondary, and the Divergence between them.
2. Enter a Final Score and Resolution Notes — both are required.
3. Choose Confirm Final Score. Resolved rows keep the final score and the notes on record.

Collect a portfolio

The learner-facing portfolio surface is at /dashboard/assessments/portfolios, titled Portfolio Assessment.

1. Select a portfolio assessment from the dropdown and choose Open My Portfolio. That creates the portfolio if it doesn’t exist yet and opens it.
2. While the portfolio is in progress, choose Add to add an artifact: a Title, a Type (document, image, audio, video, URL, code repository, or other), the URL for link artifacts, an optional Reflection, and optional Competency tags. File upload for non-URL types isn’t available yet — the dialog says so.
3. Edit an artifact’s title and reflection, or remove it, at any time while the portfolio is in progress.
4. Choose Submit Portfolio for Review once there’s at least one artifact.

People who can update assessments get a Mine / All toggle on the list so they can see other learners’ portfolios; everyone else only ever sees their own.

Review a submitted portfolio

The assessor surface is at /dashboard/assessments/portfolios/assessor, titled Portfolio Assessor Workspace.

1. Filter by portfolio assessment and by status — All statuses, Submitted, Under Review, Graded, Returned, or Finalized. It opens on Submitted. (Portfolios still in progress aren’t offered as a filter here — they haven’t reached an assessor yet.)
2. Open a portfolio. The Artifacts tab lists everything the learner submitted; the Grade tab holds an Assessor Feedback box.
3. Move the portfolio along with the status buttons: Mark Under Review, Grade, Return for Revision (sends it back to the learner), and Finalize once graded. Your feedback is saved with the status change.
4. Export JSON or Export HTML downloads the whole portfolio for archiving or moderation.

Milestones

Milestones are checkpoints on a portfolio assessment, edited at /dashboard/assessments/portfolios/milestones.

1. Search for and pick the assessment.
2. Choose Add Milestone and give it a Title, optional Description, a Due date, a Min. artifacts count, and a Sort order.
3. To review a specific learner’s gates, paste that learner’s portfolio ID into the review field and choose Open Gate Panel. There is no portfolio picker here yet, so you need the ID.

Reference

Option	Applies to	Notes
Reviewers	Peer review	1–3 named people, chosen per submitted attempt
Role	Peer review	Primary, Secondary, or Adjudicator
Blind review	Peer review	Reviewers can’t see each other’s marks. On by default
Due	Peer review	Optional date on the assignment
Criteria	Peer review	Three fixed placeholder criteria, each scored with a number plus optional feedback
Feedback quality	Peer review	Five-star rating on each score of a completed peer review
Reconciliation	Peer review	Primary vs secondary score gap; resolved with a final score and required notes
Artifact	Portfolio	Title, type, URL, optional reflection, optional competency tags
Portfolio status	Portfolio	In progress → Submitted → Under review → Graded → Returned or Finalized
Milestone	Portfolio	Title, description, due date, minimum artifacts, sort order
Export	Portfolio	JSON or HTML download of the whole portfolio

Troubleshooting

The Assign tab says to pick an assessment. Assignment is scoped to one assessment. Choose a specific one in the filter instead of All assessments.

No submissions show up to assign. Only submitted attempts can be peer-reviewed. Attempts that are not started or still in progress are filtered out.

I can’t see the Assign tab. It needs permission to update assessments. Without it you can still work your own assignments and view reconciliations. See Roles & permissions.

Submit Review is disabled. Choose Start Review first — an assignment still in the assigned state can’t be submitted.

My rubric doesn’t appear in the peer scoring sheet. It won’t. Peer scoring uses three generic criteria and does not load rubrics attached elsewhere. Put your criteria in the assessment or section instructions so reviewers know what each number means.

Reviewers can’t see the submission they’re scoring. The scoring sheet shows the criteria but not the learner’s work. Make the work reachable another way — a link in the section instructions, or a URL the learner submits — until the sheet renders responses.

Confirm Final Score won’t submit. Both the final score and the resolution notes are required on a reconciliation.

I can’t upload a file to a portfolio. Only URL artifacts are supported today; the dialog shows “File upload coming soon” for the other types. Host the file elsewhere and add it as a URL artifact.

The portfolio pages aren’t in my sidebar. They aren’t in the navigation for anyone. Reach them by URL, and tell Lurno if your organization needs them linked.

Related

• Assessments overview
• Building an assessment
• Grading & feedback
• The grading queue
• Competencies & frameworks