Help Center: Writing a Peer Review

When an instructor creates a Peer Review assignment, he or she will set the assignment to either distribute papers to students automatically or allow students to choose papers to review or a combination of both. Papers will become available for review on the start date set for the Peer Review assignment by the instructor.

Students will be able to write reviews for assigned papers using the links to the papers.

How to write a Peer Review for an assigned paper

The class name link on the student homepage

1. Click on the class name

The title of the assigned paper

2. Click on the title of the assigned paper

The topic question field

3. Answer the first topic question

The submit button

4. Click “submit”

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the remaining topic questions. Once submit has been clicked for the last topic question, the metric questions will appear

The metric question radio buttons

6. Answer the metric questions by clicking on the radio button for the number rating you would like to select

The submit button

7. Click “submit”

Students will be able to select papers for review using the select a paper link.

How to write a Peer Review for a chosen paper

The class name link on the student homepage

1. Click on the class name

The select a paper link amongst the assigned papers to review

2. Click on the "select a paper" link

The write a review pencil icon

3. Click on the write review icon next to the paper you would like to review

The topic question field

4. Answer the first topic question

The submit button

5. Click “submit”

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for the remaining topic questions. Once submit has been clicked for the last topic question, the metric questions will appear

The metric questions radio buttons

7. Answer the metric questions by clicking on the radio button for the number rating you would like to select

The submit button

8. Click “submit”

Additional Information

  • Peer Reviews can be modified by clicking on the paper title in the student's assignment portfolio anytime before the Peer Review assignment due date.
  • Peer Reviews can be saved and closed for later completion by clicking the save and close link at the top of the Peer Review.
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