Student Review Links

This article covers how to enable and share student review links — per-student URLs that let a student (or parent) view their assessment results without needing a PaperScorer account.

What Student Review Links Are

A student review link is a unique URL tied to one student’s result on one assessment. When you share the link with the student, they can open it (no sign-in required) and see what you’ve chosen to expose — the scanned sheet image, their answers, the correct answers, or any combination.

NOTE: Anyone with the link can view the result. Treat it like any other piece of student data — share through a channel the student has private access to (LMS, school email, etc.), not in a public group chat or printed handout.

When to Use Student Review Links

Review links are useful for:

Parent-teacher conferences — parents can see their child’s results on a phone or laptop on the spot.
Emailing results home — include the link in a progress email so parents can review at their own pace.
Self-reflection exercises — students review their own mistakes and the answer key.
Make-up students — share results without needing them to create an account.

Enabling Review Links on an Assessment

From the dashboard, click the Assessments main-navigation option.

Find the assessment, click its action menu, and select Edit. (If you haven’t created an assessment yet, see Creating an Assessment.)

The edit assessment modal opens with four toggles controlling review-link visibility:

Enable student results link: the master switch. Must be on for any of the other options to take effect or for per-student links to be available. If off, the link returns an “unavailable” message.
Enable scanned sheet: if on, the student sees the image of their own scanned answer sheet.
Enable student answer: if on, the student sees the answers they submitted (as captured by the scan).
Enable answer key: if on, the student sees the correct answers for any question they missed.

Common configurations

Maximum transparency — all four toggles on. Students see their scanned sheet, their answers, and the correct answers. Great for learning from mistakes.
Self-review without answers (typical) — master + student answer, but not the answer key. Students see what they wrote but have to look up what was correct — useful for re-teaching.
Score-only review — just the master switch. Students see their score and performance band but no answer detail.

Once review links are enabled, you have two ways to distribute them.

Option 1: Copy from the assessment student list

From the assessment student list, open the student’s action menu and select Copy results link. Paste the link into an email, chat, or any other channel the student can access. Each link is unique to that student and cannot be used to see other students’ results.

If you don’t see the Copy results link option, review links aren’t enabled on this assessment. Edit the assessment and turn on the master Enable student results link toggle.

Option 2: Include with an LMS data sync

When syncing to an LMS, you can include the student review link in the submission. The student finds their link inside their LMS feedback or submission area.

The integrations that support including the review link as part of the submission:

NOTE: On Google Classroom specifically, once a review link is attached to a student’s submission it can’t be removed automatically — un-checking the option on a later sync leaves the existing link in place, and you’d remove it in Google Classroom yourself. See Syncing Assessment Data to Google Classroom for details.

What Students See

When a student opens their review link, they see a clean, read-only page with:

Their name and the assessment name
Their score (e.g. 18/20 — 90%)
Their performance band (e.g. “Meets Expectations”) if performance bands are configured
A question-by-question breakdown showing — depending on your settings — the question, their answer, the correct answer, and points earned
The scanned sheet image if enabled

Students cannot edit their answers, see other students’ results, or access any other part of PaperScorer.

Link Security

How secure are the links?

Review links contain a long random token unique to each student. They aren’t sequential or guessable — someone would need the exact link to access that student’s results.

Do links expire?

Currently, links don’t expire automatically. They remain valid as long as the assessment exists in your account and the master toggle is on.

Can I revoke a link?

You can disable the master Enable student results link toggle on the assessment — all previously shared links immediately return “unavailable.” Re-enabling restores them (with the same URLs). Individual per-student revocation isn’t supported today.

Can an administrator turn review links off for everyone?

Yes. If your school or district is on an enterprise plan, an administrator can turn student review links off org-wide. When that happens — or when a link is otherwise unavailable — students who open a review link see a friendly Review Not Available page rather than an error, so they’re never left staring at a broken or confusing link.

What if a link is shared publicly?

Links show only one student’s results, so a shared link only exposes that one student’s grades — not the whole class. Still, treat links as sensitive student data.

Parent-Facing Best Practices

When sharing links with parents:

Include context in your email: “This is your student’s link to view their Unit 4 Quiz results.”
Explain the performance band — parents may not know what “Meets Expectations” means in your school’s grading scheme.
Invite follow-up: “If you have questions about these results, please reply to this email.”
Mention what they can/can’t see based on the toggles you enabled (their answers, the correct answers, the scanned sheet, etc.).

Troubleshooting

The student’s link doesn’t work.

Make sure the master toggle is on for the assessment. Verify you copied the full URL (some email clients truncate). Try opening the link in an incognito/private window. If it still fails, copy a fresh link from the student’s row.

Students see a blank page.

Their browser may be blocking scripts. Ask them to try a different browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge). If they’re on a school device, check that the district’s content filter isn’t blocking paperscorer.com (see Whitelist Requirements).

Students see “Not Found” errors.

The assessment may have been deleted or archived since the link was sent. Or the link may have been generated before review links were enabled — copy a fresh one.

I scanned the wrong sheet for a student — will the wrong result show on their link?

Yes, the link reflects whatever scan PaperScorer has on file for that student. Fix the scan (re-scan, or switch the student to the correct version) and the link will reflect the updated result.