Help Center: Creating a PeerMark Assignment
Instructors can create PeerMark assignments to allow students to review one another's work. There are three steps to creating a PeerMark assignment: the assignment settings, the distribution options, and adding questions to the PeerMark assignment. A PeerMark assignment is based on a Paper assignment or a Revision assignment. A Paper assignment must exist in the class before creating a PeerMark assignment.
Step 1 of How to create a PeerMark assignment
1. Click on the class name
2. Click on the “new assignment” button
3. Select “PeerMark Assignment” by clicking on the radio button to the left of the PeerMark Assignment
4. Click on the Next Step button
5. Select the assignment to base the PeerMark assignment on from the “Select an assignment” pull down menu
6. Enter in a Point value for the PeerMark assignment and select whether to "Award full points if review is written" by clicking in the check box next to this option
7. Assignment dates will automatically enter into the Assignment Dates fields once an assignment has been selected for PeerMark to be based on. If you would like to adjust any dates or times click on the date or time you would like to change and select a new date or time
8. Click the "Save & Continue" button to continue to Step 2 of PeerMark assignment creation
Step 2 Assigned Distribution
Step 2 of PeerMark creation allows an instructor to select the number of papers students are required to review.
1. The next step is to enter the number of paper(s) automatically distributed by PeerMark and papers selected by the student that each student will have to review within the appropriate fields. The default is to have 1 paper automatically distributed by PeerMark. To change the number of papers a student will have to review click on the Edit link
2. Enter the number of papers you would like a student to review that are automatically distributed by PeerMark or selected by the student
3. To require the student to write a self-review of their papers click on the check box next to the "Require self-review" option
4. Once you have selected how many papers you would like students to review click on the "Save" link to save the changes
5. To view the advanced distribution options click on the "Show more distribution options" link
6. The advanced distribution options allows an instructor to choose to exclude student papers from distribution or specify which student papers a student(s) will have to review. To specify which student paper a student will have to review click on the "Pair Students" button
7. Click on the "BROWSE for student" link and select a student from the drop down menu that you would like to review another student's paper
8. Click on the "BROWSE for student" link and select the student whose paper you would like to be reviewed by the student you just selected in the prior step
9. You may add another student who will review the student's paper you have selected by clicking on the plus icon next to the student's name who will review that paper
10. Click on the "BROWSE for student" link and select another student from the drop down menu that you would like to review the student's paper that has been selected
11. Click on the "Save pair" button once you have finished selecting the student pair
12. Once all the student pairs or exclusions have been selected click on the "Save & Continue" button at the bottom of the page
Step 3 Adding Questions
Step 3 of PeerMark creation allows an instructor to add questions that student will have to answer while reviewing their peers' papers.
1. If you would like to add instructions that will appear above the peer review questions click on "Click here to add instructions." link
2. Enter the instructions within the text box that appears and click on the "Save instructions" button to save the instructions
There are two types of questions that may be added to a PeerMark assignment: free response questions and scale questions. Free response questions require written responses from the student and have a minimum word requirement the instructor chooses. Scale questions requires the student to rate their peer's paper on a scale selected by the instructor.
Adding free response questions to the PeerMark assignment
1. Click on the Add question button to begin adding questions to the PeerMark assignment
2. Select "Free response" from the drop down menu
3. Enter the question and the minimum answer length in the appropriate fields
4. Click on the Add Question button to add the question to the PeerMark assignment
Adding a scale question to a PeerMark assignment
1. Click on the Add Question button and select "Scale"
2. Type the question into the "Question" field
3. Select the scale size by clicking on the "Scale Size" pulldown menu and selecting a number 2-5
4. Fill in the Labels for the scale. Exmample 1: Not very well and 5: Very well for the question: "How well did the introduction pull you in as a reader?"
5. Click on the Add Question button to add the question to the PeerMark assignment
Adding questions from a PeerMark question library to the PeerMark assignment
1. Click on the Add Question button and select a library you would like to add questions from
2. Click on the "Add this question" link next to the question you would like to add to the PeerMark assignment
3. To add all the questions in the library to your PeerMark assignment click on the "Add all questions" button located below the questions in the library
4. Click on the "Finished adding question from library" link to return to viewing the PeerMark assignment questions
Once all the questions have been selected for the PeerMark assignment click on the "Save & Finish" button to complete PeerMark assignment creation.
Additional Information
- Only accounts for which the PeerMark feature has been purchased will be given the option of creating PeerMark assignments. If you are interested in purchasing PeerMark for your account, please contact your Turnitin sales representative.
- Papers for review will be distributed on the start date; papers submitted to the “based on” paper assignment after the peer review start date will not be distributed unless the instructor has allowed late submissions to the base paper assignment. If the instructor has allowed late submissions they will then have to set "The Late Papers" option which is the last date for papers to be submitted to the base paper assignment and still be included in the pool of papers to be reviewed. This date must come after the due date of the base paper assignment and before the due date of the PeerMark assignment.
- The post date is the date on which the reviews will be made available for the original paper's authors to view.
- For information on how to write a review in PeerMark, please view our article on writing a review in PeerMark.
- For information on how to grade reviews in PeerMark, please view our article on grading reviews in PeerMark.
- For information on how to add comments to a paper in PeerMark, please view our article on adding comments to a paper in PeerMark.
- For more information about the anonymity and non-submitter participation settings, please view our article anonymity and non-submitter participation options.
- For more information about the view access settings, please view our article on view access settings.
- For more infromation about PeerMark grading, please view our article on PeerMark grading logic.
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