Creating Review Packs
Learn how to bundle student reports into a Review Pack for colleague review, assign reviewers, and track feedback progress through to completion.
What is a Review Pack?
A Review Pack bundles a class's student reports together and sends them to a colleague for feedback. This streamlines the peer review process that many schools require.
Creating a Review Pack
1. Prepare Your Reports
Only reports marked Ready for Review can go into a pack. On the generate page, finish each comment with Mark Ready for Review (the arrow beside it marks the comment ready and opens the next student).
Packs are usually made once a whole class is written. When every student in a class has a comment, the class page offers Create a review pack, and each class card shows how many reports are ready for review.
2. Open Create Pack
Click Review Packs in the sidebar, then Create Pack. You can also click Create Pack on a class card, which chooses the class for you.
3. Choose the Class and Reports
Each pack covers one class. In the Create Review Pack dialog:
- Class: choose the class first. The report list then shows that class's reports that are ready for review and not already in an unfinished pack.
- Pack Title: named for you from the class, semester and year, for example "3B S2'26", so pack names stay consistent across your school. If you really need a different name, click Customise name (and Reset to standard name to go back).
- Due Date (optional): a suggested timeframe for your reviewer.
- Description (optional): any context for your reviewer.
- Select Reports: tick the reports to include, or use Select All.
Click Create Pack. The pack is saved as a Draft, so you can still add or remove reports before you send it.
4. Send for Review
Open the draft pack and click Assign for Review (or Send for Review on the pack's card). If any report in the pack is not yet marked ready, a quick check lists it first and offers Mark All as Ready.
Choose your reviewer, add any instructions, and click Send for Review. Your colleague receives an email letting them know.
Pack Statuses
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Draft | Pack created but not sent |
| In Review | With reviewer, awaiting feedback |
| Needs Changes | Returned to you with feedback (the pack's badge reads Returned) |
| Approved | Reviewer approved all reports |
Each pack also tracks its review round (e.g. "Round 1", "Round 2") showing how many review cycles it has been through.
Managing Your Packs
View Pack Details
Click any pack to see:
- All included reports
- Current status
- Review history
- Annotations and feedback
Recall a Pack
Sent a pack too soon? Click Recall Pack, on the pack itself or on its card, to take it back. You can recall a pack until the reviewer opens it, and it returns to exactly how it was before you sent it, so nothing is lost.
Once the reviewer has opened the pack, recall is unavailable. Ask them to send it back instead, and their feedback comes with it. See Recalling a Review Pack for the details.
Reopening an Approved Pack
Approved by mistake, or need to change something after approval? Click Reopen Pack on the approved pack, or Reopen for Editing in the pack's menu on your Review Packs page. The pack moves back to Draft, its reports unlock so you can edit them or send the pack for review again, and its full review history is kept. If you closed the pack yourself with Mark as Complete, reopening puts it back as your reviewer returned it instead, with their notes ready to work through.
Track Progress
Your dashboard shows:
- Packs pending review
- Packs with feedback ready
- Recently approved packs
Setting Up Your Review Team
Before creating packs, you need colleagues available as reviewers. There are two ways this works:
- School users: Any member of your school can be selected as a reviewer by default. If your admin has enabled Restrict Reviewers, only members with the Reviewer or Admin role will appear in the reviewer list.
- Individual users: Add colleagues to your review team in Settings > Review Team by entering their email address. They'll appear as reviewer options when you send a pack.
Review History
Every pack keeps a complete record of every action taken against it. Open a pack and scroll to the Review History card to see:
- A timeline of every step (sent for review, sent back for changes, recalled, resubmitted, approved)
- Pack-level comments left by reviewers at each step
- Who took each action and when
If a pack has been through multiple review rounds, the timeline shows them all in order with a coloured badge for each action type:
| Action | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Sent for Further Review | The pack went to a reviewer. Your first send shows this way, and so does a reviewer passing the pack on to a second-level reviewer |
| Sent Back for Changes | The reviewer returned the pack with feedback |
| Recalled | You took the pack back before the reviewer opened it |
| Resubmitted | You addressed the feedback and sent the pack back to the reviewer |
| Final Approved | The reviewer signed off on the final version |
| Reopened by Teacher | You reopened the approved pack for editing (Reopened by Admin when a school admin did) |
Older packs may also show a few event types from earlier versions of ReportRocket.
Review History is the audit trail for the pack. Use it for professional development conversations, to remember why a pack was returned, or to settle "did anyone ever look at this?" questions.
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