Help Center: Distributing Papers for Peer Review
There are three ways to distribute papers for peer review: manually assign, randomly assign, and students choose. Manually assigning papers gives the instructor the option to assign a specific paper to a certain student. With the randomly assign option the system will randomly assign the papers to the students. The students choose option allows the students to choose papers to review.
Manually Assign Papers to Students
1. Distribute papers for peer review is the last step when creating a peer review assignment or can be opened up by clicking on the distribute icon next to the review link on the class homepage once a peer review assignment has been created
2. Select the number of papers you would like students to review from the "How many papers do you want to assign each student to review"
3. Click on the red arrow update link next to the students name
4. Click in the empty check boxes to place a check next to all the papers you would like the student to review
5. Click on the red arrow update link next to the students name. The papers selected will now be assigned to the student
6. The assigned papers' number shows up next to the students name
To reassign papers to a student follow the same process above. The selected papers will replace the previously assigned papers.
Randomly Assign Papers to Students
1. Distributing papers for a peer review is the last step when creating a peer review assignment or can be opened up by clicking on the distribute icon next to the review link on the class homepage once a peer review assignment has been created
2. Select the number of papers you would like students to review from the "How many papers do you want to assign each student to review"
3. Click on the distribute button and the papers will be randomly distributed
Assign Papers that Students Choose to Review
1. Distributing papers for a peer review is the last step when creating a peer review assignment or can be opened up by clicking on the distribute icon next to the review link on the class homepage once a peer review assignment has been created
2. Select the number of papers the students get to choose to review from the "How many papers do you want to let students choose to review?" pull down menu
3. Click the distribute button
4. A question mark under the papers assigned column represents how many papers a student gets to choose to review
Additional Information
- If you don't want a paper distributed, you can exclude it by clicking the lock icon next to it. The open lock will close becoming locked, indicating the paper is no longer available for distribution.
- You also have the option of preventing a student from receiving a peer review assignment by clicking the lock next to the student's name. The open lock will close becoming locked, indicating the student is not available to be assigned a paper to review.
- If you need to view or change the distribution for your peer review assignment, click the distribution icon next to the peer review assignment on the class homepage.
- For information on how to create a Peer Review, please view our article on creating peer review assignments
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