How do students complete a peer assessment assignment?

Go to Assignments.

Select the Assignments tool from the Tool Menu in your site.

Submit your assignment.

If your assignment has a peer assessment component, Peer Review Assignment will display beneath the assignment title. You must submit your own assignment before you can complete your peer assessment of other students.

Click on the assignment title to submit your work. See How do students submit an assignment? for more information on submitting assignments.

Peer Evaluation window.

Note: After you submit your assignment, you will need to wait until the peer evaluation window opens. This is the time you instructor has allocated for you to review other students' work after the submissions are due.

Select a student submission to review.

Once you have submitted your own assignment, and the peer review window has opened, the peer assessment options will display to you. Click on a student in the list below Peer Review Assignment to select a submission to review.

Review your peer's submission.

  1. Use the Instructions for the Reviewer section for guidance in providing your peer assessment.
  2. The student's inline submission, if available, displays for you in the Assignment Submission area.
  3. The student's attached submission, if available, displays for you in the Submitted Attachments area. Click the attached document to open or download it.
  4. If there is a rubric associated with this assignment, you will see the Grading Rubric displayed here. Click to select your rating for each of the criteria in the rubric. The points will automatically add up and you will see the total in the Grade field below.
  5. If there is no rubric associated with the assignment, you may enter your Grade for the peer review by typing the score directly into the text box provided. Note the maximum possible score that displays for you next to the Grade field.
  6. Enter your feedback into the Reviewer Comments area using the Rich Text Editor.
  7. Optionally click Browse to upload an attachment from your device which contains additional feedback.
  8. Click Submit to submit your review.

Review any additional students assigned.

If you have been assigned more than one student to review, you will be taken to the next student in your list automatically. Repeat the above process to review additional submissions.

View your submitted peer assessments.

Image of the Peer Review Assignment indicating that the peer review has been submitted.

Once you have submitted your peer reviews, the status for that student submission will change to Submitted and a green check mark will appear next to the student in the list.