Introduction
In this article we will walk you through how to use Group Member Evaluation from the perspective of a teacher.
If you’d like more information on how this tool works, you can check out other articles here:
Group Member Evaluation: For Teachers (Setting Up)
Group Member Evaluation: For Students
Group Member Evaluation: Overview
Tool In Action
How this article is structured
This article walks you through the steps of an Group Member Evaluation activity, following the same flow as the tool itself. It will describe the process of using the active assignment. This refers to what happens after the assignment is published and available to students. It covers monitoring student progress, viewing submissions, giving feedback, and reviewing outcomes.
Note: When you open a published activity, you’ll land on the Active Assignment view by default. To return to the setup view after publishing, click Edit in the upper-left corner of the activity.
You can see the article about Setting Up this tool here.
Accessibility
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Overall Student Progress
At the top of the assignment, you will see the Overall student progress overview. Click on statistics per active student to see individual students' progress. Here, you can view their overall grade, whether students have read the instructions, and the statuses of both the reviews they've given and received.
Click on the headers in each column to change the order (ascending or descending) in which students are displayed. You can also click Fullscreen to pop out the full display of student progress.
The check marks under read instructions mean that the student has finished the step. The light green dot means the student has not read the instructions yet.
Under the Given Reviews and Received Reviews headers, you will find the completion status of each review for each student. If a student has completed the module, it will display ✔ Completed instead of a percentage.
It is also possible to export all the student data into an excel file. This file contains information concerning review ratings, review comments and grading. You can download this export by clicking on the EXPORT ANALYTICS button in the overall student progress window.
Step 1: Instructions
Here, you can view the instructions you wrote while setting up the assignment. You can edit them by clicking on the Edit button in the top right corner of the screen.
Step 2: Given Reviews
In this step, you can access an overview of all provided feedback. The reviews in this step display the feedback provided by the student.
The star icon at the top of the overview shows what percentage of the grade is taken from this section of the assignment.
Exploring the Overview
Students who have begun giving feedback to their peer will reflected in this step. We'll take you through each area, one by one.
Headers:
Clicking on the headers will change the order (ascending or descending) in which the students are shown.
Progress Bar:
Directly above the student breakdown, you can see a progress bar. This shows the students who have not started, have partial progress, have mostly completed, or have completed the assignment.
You can use the magnifying glass icon to search for a particular student or group name. The three dots next to fullscreen icon allows you to filter to show ratings per criterion or show ratings on reviews.
Clicking on any of the colors (or the progress chips underneath the bar itself) will change the groups and students portrayed accordingly - in this example, we have clicked on mostly completed:
To view more information on student & group progress on one screen, you can click full screen next to the progress bar to pop out the analytics screen.
Keywords:
You can filter by keywords mentioned by students in their reviews to see reviews with a common theme.
In this example, clicking on the work keyword pops up the overview of all reviews where the word work was mentioned - you can see the reviewer, the reviewee, and the criteria the review fell under.
Show Allocations:
Coming back to the overview - clicking on Show Allocations brings up a pop up, displaying the work assigned to each group & group member for review.
Within the pop up, you can click on the arrows next to each group to expand their assignments. You can also see the assignment collaboration type listed at the top.
Show Ratings:
Click on Show Ratings to see a heatmap displaying the assessments given by the students.
Within the heatmap, you can see student ratings per rubric set filtered on the top bar by their given reviews, self assessment and feedback-on-feedback.
Clicking on insights on any particular rubrics criteria will pull up a contribution filter - you can filter for common keywords per review.
In this example, clicking on good will show all of the reviews where good was mentioned and for which criteria.
Full screen offers a wider display for easier view. You may also leverage the Search capabilities to search for individual students.
View Reviews:
The reviews in this step display the feedback provided by the student. View Reviews navigates you to the given reviews playlist, where you can start viewing individual review packets. You may also navigate to a specific student review by hovering over the student’s name in the table below.
After clicking view reviews, you'll be taken to the first student overview. This is a full overview of all of the feedback this student has given. You can also see their ratings per rubric section.
At the top of the page you can see the student name, their group, and can switch between the different review feedback the student has given per person.
The page is divided into two sections - provide feedback and feedback-on-feedback. Provide feedback is an agglomeration of the students' given reviews, separated into rubric groups - feedback-on-feedback is their given review of the feedback they have received from their peers.
For each rubric section in provide feedback, you can see which rating was given by the student in their self review, as indicated by the self text and icon underneath.
You can also hover over the ratings to view what ratings the student has given and to whom.
If the student has left comments, you can also click on the comments icon on the bottom left to view them. Their self review comments are denoted by the self review icon.
In the feedback-on-feedback section, you can check the ratings a student has given of the feedback they received. If the student has not yet rated the feedback they received, or if the feedback-on-feedback module is not enabled, this will show as blank.
Once you're satisfied with the current review page, click Next either at the bottom of the page or in the top right to move on to the next student.
You can tab between previous and next reviews at any point by clicking previous or next in the top right - here you can also see which page of reviews you are on (in this example, 2 out of 17):
Step 3: Received Reviews and Feedback-on-Feedback
The Received Reviews section of the active assignment offers an overview of students in this step. It displays their overall progress, average review rating, self-assessment rating, outliers (if enabled), and more. To view the full analytics of received reviews, please click on full screen.
To view a student's review, hover over their name and click on it. This will direct you to the same page as their submitted review, where you can see the criteria and feedback they provided.
Giving Feedback As a Teacher:
Within a student's received reviews overview, change the show feedback given by filter to your name in order to leave your review for the student.
Step 4: Reflections (Optional)
In this section, you can view an overview of all student-written reflections. Writing a reflection is an important step in concluding an assignment. For example, students can reflect on their experience throughout the feedback process. If the teacher has enabled this option in the settings, these reflections will be visible in an overview in step 4.
Students can write their reflections after providing feedback to their peers, regardless of whether they have completed the Received Review step. You can click on view reflections to see an overview of all reflections left by students.
Grading
In the active assignment, you can access a comprehensive overview detailing the grades of each student within the system.
If the teacher has included grading in the settings, it will be visible after the last step. The image below shows what that will look like.
By clicking on the arrow on the right or using the scroll bar at the bottom, the teacher can view the rest of the grade sections (from left to right). On the far right there is also an optional grade adjustment. This allows the teacher to add or subtract points for each student. Click on Fullscreen to get a better view.
Good to Know
Anonymity: If anonymity is enabled, the students work under a pseudonym, but the teacher can always see the student name.