Introduction
In this article we will walk you through how to use Peer Review from the perspective of a teacher.
If you’d like more information on how this tool works, you can check out other articles here:
Tool In Action
How this article is structured
This article walks you through the steps of an Peer Review 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 and submissions mean that the student has finished the step. The light green dot means the student has not read the instructions or submitted his file yet.
Under the Given Reviews, Received Reviews and Automated Feedback (Optional) 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: Submissions
Once the assignment has been set up, this step provides an overview of the students' submitted work, and which students have not submitted their work.
The students' submissions can also be viewed in the assignment itself. By clicking on the file in the files handed in column in the row for the student's name, you can see which files they have submitted. Click on view to view the submitted work.
Note: If the student has submitted a video, you will see the video player instead of the document.
Exploring the Overview
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. Additionally, clicking on any of the colors (or the progress chips underneath the bar itself) will change the groups and students portrayed accordingly.
Students who have submitted their work can see whether they submitted it late or on time. Instructors may adjust the deadline or grant individual student’s extensions using the Grant Extension and Change Deadline buttons. In the settings, the deadline can be moved or late hand-in allowed.
All submitted files can be downloaded by clicking the download icon in step 2. The submissions are in a zip file, the files in this zip file have a name in the format [First name Last name Student] Original file name.
Browse Submissions:
View Submissions navigates you to the submissions playlist, where you can start viewing student’s submissions packets. The reviews at this step show the deliverable submitted by the student.
Selecting Open on the line item will direct you to the deliverable. Please note that this action will not allow you to access the feedback given or received on the artefact. To access this feedback, follow the next two steps outlined below.
Note: If the student has submitted a video, you will see the video player instead of the document.
Step 3: Given Reviews
In an active assignment, you can access an overview of all provided feedback. The reviews in this step display the feedback provided by the student.
Exploring the Overview
Students who have begun giving feedback on their peer’s submissions will reflected in this step. Clicking on the headers will change the order (ascending or descending) in which the students are shown.
Underneath the Given Reviews header, you have 3 buttons - view reviews, show allocations, show ratings and full screen. We will cover view reviews in more detail in the next step.
Show Allocations displays the work assigned to the student for review. If you've chosen a collaboration option other than hand in individually you will also see your chosen collaboration option here.
Show ratings presents a heatmap displaying the assessments given by the students. If you have added a self-assessment step, you will also see a button to access this next to the given reviews header at the top of the table.
Full screen offers a wider display for easier view. You may also leverage the Search icon located on the upper right corner 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.
Show feedback given to filter defaults to All Reviewers. This provides a consolidated view of all feedback given by Saul Goodman, enabling you to review all his feedback swiftly without navigating multiple sections.
When navigating the Feedback section of the All Reviewers packet, you can hover over the ratings to view the two peers to whom the student assigned that rating. Additionally, New buttons indicate unread comments.
You may use the dropdown menu to filter by individual packets.
Selecting Open on the line item will take you to the deliverable that has received feedback. Here, Skylar White has provided feedback on Walter White's deliverable. The submitter's name is highlighted in the purple appbar. Refer to the sidebar to review the feedback from Skylar White to Walter White.
To navigate to the next student, click on the back arrow in the purple app bar, and you will be presented with the playlist again. Click Next to move on to the next student.
Step 4: Received Reviews
In this step, you can view an overview of all feedback received. The reviews in this step display the feedback received by the student. 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.
Browse Received Reviews:
The reviews in this step display the feedback received by the student. Clicking on View Reviews takes you to the workflow playlist, where you can start viewing student review packets. The reviews at this step show the feedback received by the student.
The Show feedback given by filter defaults to All Reviewees. This provides a consolidated view of all feedback received by a student, enabling you to review all his feedback swiftly without navigating multiple sections. You may use the dropdown menu to filter by individual review packets. Click on the Next button to navigate between students who have received reviews.
Review, respond or upvote:
You may view ratings and comments view the review packet or the side bar. It is possible to respond to these comments or upvote them.
Add yourself as a reviewer:
To add yourself as a reviewer while reviewing the feedback a student has received from their peer, simply click on the purple icon located at the bottom right of your screen.
Upon clicking the purple icon, you'll encounter an empty review packet, with your name automatically added to the reviewer filter. From there, you can proceed to provide your review. It's important to note that once you submit your review, you won't have the ability to retract it, so please review your feedback carefully before finalizing.
Step 5: Reflect on Activity (optional)
In this step, you can view an overview of all student-written reflections.
Writing a reflection is a valuable step to conclude an assignment. For example, the student can write a reflection on how the entire process of providing feedback went. The teacher will see this reflection in an overview in step 4 (if the teacher has enabled this option in the settings).
Students can write their reflections after providing feedback to their peers, regardless of whether they have completed the Received Review step.
Here, the teacher can see which groups and which specific students have made progress in completing their reflection. Only the groups whose students have made progress on this step will be shown as in the image below. If the teacher wants to read a specific student's reflection, the teacher clicks view next to the student's name to see their reflection.
Clicking the View Reflections button will take you to the reflections playlist, allowing teachers to easily browse through the entire list of student-written reflections.
Grading
In this step, you have to 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.