We’ve released several new updates for Pear Assessment this quarter, focused on helping you spend less time managing tools and tasks and more time acting on student data. Read on to see what’s new.

Seamless Folder Sharing for Tests & Assignments

With Folder Sharing in Pear Assessment, you can organize your assessments and assignments into dedicated folders and share entire folders directly with colleagues across your school or district. Curriculum leads, departments, and grade-level teams can build a unified, collaborative hub for common curriculum units, so you can skip creating separate folders and reduce extra overhead. Assessment security is preserved when you share, so your content stays protected.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Folder-Level Sharing for Tests & Assignments: Share an entire folder from the Test Library or Assignment List with specific district colleagues or district-wide in just a few clicks.

Role-Based Access Control: Assign collaborators as Viewers (view-only access to browse contents) or Editors (can add, remove, and organize contents within the shared folder).

Permission Independence & Security: Sharing a folder does not automatically alter or compromise the underlying permissions of individual assessments or student submissions. You only see and interact with assessments that you are authorized to access.

Visual Ownership Badges: Distinct folder icons and visual indicators clearly show whether you are the Folder Owner, an Editor, or a Viewer.

HOW TO GET STARTED:

1. Navigate to Tests or Assignments from the left navigation bar.

2. Click the Folders tab or expand your folder tree in the left pane.

3. Hover over the desired folder, click the Three Dots (⋮) menu, and select Share.

4. Search for colleagues by name or email, choose their permission level (Viewer or Editor), and click Share.

100-Question Bubble Sheet Printing & Enhanced Scanning

Pear Assessment’s expanded paper-to-digital testing now supports full 100-item bubble sheets, breaking past the legacy 40-question limit so you can run your longest, highest-stakes evaluations on paper. Manage paper and digital assessments in one unified platform, with no need for external tools or standalone scanning hardware, so your school or district can standardize all assessment data in one place. Upgraded optical scanning accuracy helps ensure your results are captured reliably as well.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Support for Up to 100 Items: Print, distribute, and grade bubble sheets for comprehensive evaluations, semester finals, midterms, and benchmark exams directly within Pear Assessment.

High-Fidelity Scanning Engine: Detect pencil markings with higher accuracy using upgraded scanning algorithms, significantly reducing misreads and re-scans on high-density sheets.

Unified Reporting: View paper-based responses in Pear Assessment’s reporting suite and Live Class Board alongside digital submissions.

HOW TO GET STARTED:

1. Open any assessment containing up to 100 multiple-choice questions from your Test Library.

2. Assign the test to your class, or select an active assignment from the Assignments page.

3. In the Live Class Board (LCB) top-right menu, select Generate Bubble Sheet.

4. To grade, open the Live Class Board (LCB) and click Scan Bubble Sheets and upload the filled bubble sheet PDF.

Enterprise Surveys, District Library & Bulk Test Sharing

With the introduction of non-evaluative Survey Assessments featuring native Likert scales in Pear Assessment, you can collect holistic student voice, SEL feedback, and school climate data in the same familiar ecosystem you already use for academic testing. Use the redesigned District Library to find official district-certified content and peer-shared materials, narrow your results with the new organized filter, and co-create materials with colleagues through multi-author sharing.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Native Survey Assessments & Likert Scales: Create ungraded surveys, student climate questionnaires, and teacher feedback forms using dedicated Likert-scale question types.

Dedicated Survey Reporting: View survey results in a new “Survey Reports” tab directly within the Insights page

District Library: Find district-relevant content faster, including certified collections that are curated, district-purchased, or custom-approved, plus high-quality assessments that peers share across your district.

Bulk Co-Author Invites: Select multiple colleagues at once when sharing drafts or published tests.

Unified Help & Feedback Action Hub

The support icon in the bottom right corner of your screen is now an interactive Help & Feedback Action Hub, so you can launch AI assistance, share product feedback, search documentation, or chat with Support in one click. Get the help you need without opening separate tabs, hunting down contact forms, or leaving your current task, so your teaching and administrative workflows stay uninterrupted.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Peary AI Assistant: Open Peary AI right from your workspace to ask questions, explore features, and navigate through the platform.

In-App Feedback: Share suggestions, feature ideas, or report issues directly in a quick feedback window (with rich text up to 1,000 characters) without interrupting your grading or lesson prep.

Direct Help Documentation: Open official help articles and guides in the Help Center with one click.

Live Support Chat: Reach our customer support team directly when you need hands-on technical assistance.

Guided Onboarding Tour: Walk through the new hub options with a quick, interactive tour.

HOW TO GET STARTED:

1. Locate the Help Hub icon (?) in the bottom corner of your screen on any Pear Assessment page.

2. Click the icon to expand your options and select - Peary AI, Share Feedback, Help Articles, or Contact Support.

AI Deep Insights for Reports

With the upgraded AI Summary in Pear Assessment, you can move beyond surface-level metrics across Standard Mastery, Multiple Assessment, and Single Assessment Reports. The new Deep Insights Engine analyzes complete report datasets to automatically identify hidden trends, risk clusters, and intervention opportunities, so you can focus your attention on the students and standards that need it most. Full student data anonymization means you can review insights without exposing any personally identifiable information.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Hidden Trends & Trajectories: Spot subtle performance gains or dips across assessment cycles.

Outliers & Risk Clusters: Automatically highlight specific student subgroups or standard domains requiring immediate attention.

Actionable Intervention Opportunities: Receive targeted recommendations to guide differentiated instruction and curriculum planning.

Strict Privacy Protection: Full data anonymization ensures zero student personally identifiable information (PII) is exposed.

HOW TO GET STARTED:

1. Log in to your Pear Assessment account.

2. In the left navigation, click Insights (or Reports).

3. Select any Standard Mastery Report, Multiple Assessment Report, or Single Assessment Report.

4. Apply your desired filters (e.g., School, Grade, Subject, or Assessment) and the AI Summary panel will appear at the top of the report view.

Pear Assist (Beta) -  Generating Test-Level Metadata and Rubric Suggestions  

With Pear Assist (Beta), you can streamline test creation by skipping manual tagging of each assessment item. It automatically generates item metadata, including standards, Depth of Knowledge (DoK), and difficulty, and lets you select and apply a rubric across all relevant items in a single flow. Spend less time on administrative work while keeping assessments consistent and aligned with the standards and instructional goals essential to tracking student progress and applying interventions.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Test-Level Rubric Selection: Choose and apply existing rubrics across all constructed-response items.

Automated Metadata Generation: Uses AI to generate standards, Depth of Knowledge (DoK), and difficulty levels for missing test items in a single flow.

Full Review & Control: Maintain full authority to review, modify, and confirm all metadata suggestions and assigned rubrics before saving.

Privacy & Security: User information is kept private, and assessment data processed by AI is never used to train models.

HOW TO GET STARTED:

1. Navigate to the Test Review page. If eligible, locate the Pear Assist option in the right-hand panel.

2. Review and confirm the Grade, Standard Set, and (optionally) select a Rubric from your list.

3. Select the Pear Assist option to proceed. The system will attach the rubric and generate metadata suggestions (standards, DoK, difficulty) for all items missing a standard. Suggestions will appear below the item card.

4. Review the AI-suggested metadata and selected rubric. From the item preview pop up in the test review page, you can modify any suggested standard, DoK, difficulty level, or rubric before finalizing.

5. Once satisfied with the suggestions, confirm the changes to apply the metadata and rubric to your assessment items.

Inline Edit Item Metadata and Rubric (Beta)

New inline editing (beta) in Pear Assessment puts item corrections right in your test review workflow, including standards, difficulty levels, and rubrics, so you spend less time navigating between pages and more time reviewing assessments with confidence. When you spot a metadata error, fix it on the spot instead of leaving for the full item authoring page, then validate your changes immediately.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

Inline Metadata Modification: Quickly update Standards, Difficulty, and Depth of Knowledge (DoK) directly from the test review page.

Rubric Management: Seamlessly change assigned rubrics and preview criteria from the test page without going into the item edit view.

Permission-Based Access: Automatically respect user permissions, ensuring only authorized users with edit access can modify metadata.

HOW TO GET STARTED:

1. In the Item Review screen, locate the metadata panel displaying the item's current Depth of Knowledge (DoK), Difficulty, Rubric, and Standards.

2. Click the Edit button next to the metadata/rubric.

3. A new editing section opens, where you can modify the metadata and rubric.

• Standards: Click to add new standards, or remove existing ones from the item.
• Difficulty & DoK: Select the desired level from the dropdown choices.
• Rubrics: Select a new rubric if needed. Click the View action to open a preview window of the selected rubric.

4. Click Save to apply your changes immediately. The review screen will automatically refresh with the updated values. If you do not wish to keep your changes, click Cancel to revert back.

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