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Utilizing Canvas Peer Review in Discussions

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The term “assesses” is used for evaluating the quality, thoroughness, etcetera of a post or review using a rubric. The term “award points” is used when students earn full points for completing a post or review.

Discussion Settings: Peer Review no Rubric

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The term “assesses” is used for evaluating the quality, thoroughness, etcetera of a post or review using a rubric. The term “award points” is used when students earn full points for completing a post or review.

Activity Instructions Example

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05.05 Program Evaluation Project: Rough Draft Peer Review Discussion(Title)

Initial Post Directions (Header 2)

Your final evaluation paper, initially assigned in Module 3, should be in a rough draft form that you can post to this class-wide discussion board for peer review.

When you are ready to post your rough draft:

1. <<Provide any specifics here—students may attach or link documents or link, create, or embed video or audio.>>

2. Post a reply to this discussion that addresses the following:

   • Access to your rough draft

   • State your chosen topic

   • List any areas that you would like your assigned peer reviewers to focus on

After everyone has posted, I will assign you two of your peers’ rough drafts to review. You will be able to access your peer review assignments by returning to this discussion. See Canvas’ How do I know if I have a peer review discussion to complete? article for an overview of how to access peer review discussions.

<<Insert specifics for how the discussion and peer reviews will be graded here—align verbiage with discussion settings and point allocations for initial post and completed reviews.>>

Initial posts are due by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time.

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Peer Review Directions (Header 2)

Before reviewing your peers’ rough drafts:

• Skim through Guidelines for Students - Peer Review for tips on how to approach peer review and for guidance on how to provide constructive feedback.

• Plan on spending about 1-hour per review.

When you are ready to perform a peer review, follow these steps:

1. Select Review Now to access the rough draft you would like to review.

2. Read your peer’s post and review their work. 

   • <<Provide any specifics here—students may download Word documents, track changes, save and upload the document or make suggested edits in linked Google documents (as long as students also complete the rubric); or students can free form comments using only the rubric.>>

3. Provide feedback:

   • Follow the steps as outlined in Canvas’ How do I submit a peer review to a discussion? article to provide feedback. You must complete the rubric! You are not scoring your peers, you are simply providing feedback according to the same criteria that I will use to assess final drafts.

Note: Do NOT simply reply to the discussion thread. Access your peer via the Review Now link then add your feedback to the rubric. Following these steps triggers Canvas to notify both of us that your review is complete.

You may access peer feedback from Grades. See the Canvas article Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed discussions? for more details.

Initial posts are due by Friday at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time.

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Students will post rough drafts of their Final Evaluation Paper in the 05.05 Program Evaluation Project: Rough Draft Peer Review Discussion by Tuesday 11:59 p.m. MT.

This discussion is built in a way that allows you to use Canvas to assign a specific person to peer review the work of TWO other students. 

To assign peer reviews, 

1. Go to the 05.05 discussion 

2. Select Peer Reviews from the more options menu (the three stacked dots).

3. Assign reviews:

   • You may automatically assign 2 reviews to each student who has posted a rough draft OR

   • You may manually assign reviews. Tip: If you want to assign reviews only to those who submitted work, consider opening the discussion in a new window so you have access to who posted.

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You can get a quick view of who should earn credit for posting reviews by returning to the 05.05 discussion > Peer Reviews screen. See this Peer Review Screenshot. You will also see the reviewer’s comments in the context of the reviewed student’s discussion post through SpeedGrader.

The 05.05 discussion is worth 15 points. The rubric associated with the discussion is the same rubric students used to provide feedback to their peers—use this to assess the rough drafts shared.

<<If the faculty will be awarding points for completed peer reviews or assessing peer reviews, provide the Peer Review assignment name and additional instruction here.>>

Additional Resources

• Canvas Peer Review - Assignment

• Using Peer Review to Help Students Improve Their Writing, from Washing University in St. Louis

• Student Guidelines for Peer Review, from SERC, Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

• Peer Review Tips

• How do I use peer review discussions in a course?

• How do I create a peer review discussion?

• How do I manually assign peer reviews for a discussion?

• How do I automatically assign peer reviews for a discussion?

• How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?

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