How do I create a peer review assignment?

When creating an assignment, you can require students to complete a peer review of another student's work. Learn more about  peer review assignments . 

 For peer reviews, you can  manually assign  peer reviews or choose to have Canvas  automatically assign  peer reviews for you. You can also choose to allow students to see other students' names in peer reviews or make them anonymous. When anonymous peer reviews are enabled, instructors and TAs can still view the names of student reviewers in SpeedGrader and in the student submission page. However, if anonymous grading is enabled in SpeedGrader, the names of both students will be hidden in SpeedGrader but not in the student submission page. 

 To complete the peer review, students are required to leave at least one comment. If you include a rubric, they are only required to complete the rubric. 

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 To learn how assignment and peer review due dates appear in a student's To Do list, view the  Peer Review Tips resource document . 

 Peer reviews cannot be used with External Tool assignments. 

 Students can see peer review comments if assignment grades are hidden. However, students cannot see instructor comments until after assignment grades have been posted. 

 Instructors cannot edit or delete student peer review comments. 

 

 

 

 Open Assignments 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In Course Navigation, click the  Assignments  link. 

 Add Assignment 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Click the  Add Assignment  button. 

 Add Assignment Details 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Add  details to the assignment . 

 Select Submission Type 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Click the  Submission Type  drop-down menu [1], and select your preferred   submission type [2]. 

 Note:  The External Tool submission type does not support peer review assignments. 

 Select Online Entry Options 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Select the checkboxes for the types of online entries allowed in the assignment. 

 Add Group Assignment 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Peer reviews can be used with group assignments. If you want to  create a group assignment , click the  This is a Group Assignment  checkbox. 

 Require Peer Reviews 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Click the  Require Peer Reviews  checkbox [1]. By default, peer reviews are assigned manually [2]. 

 If you want to assign peer reviews automatically, select the  Automatically Assign Peer Reviews  radio button [3]. 

 Note:  Peer reviews must be manually assigned for On Paper and No Submission assignment types. 

 Automatically Assign Peer Reviews 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If you automatically assign peer reviews, the menu displays additional options. In the  Reviews Per User  field [1], enter the number of reviews each student will be required to complete. 

 In the  Assign Reviews  field [2], use the calendar icon to select a date or manually enter the date for student peer reviews to be assigned. If left blank, Canvas will use the assignment due date. 

 Assign Group Assignment Intra-Group Peer Reviews 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In group assignments, you also have the option to allow intra-group peer reviews. 

 Peer reviews require a student to review an individual submission by another student. However, group assignment submissions are made by one group member on behalf of the entire group, and all group members have the same submission. 

 By default, the  Allow intra-group peer reviews  checkbox is not selected, which means Canvas will filter out members of the same group when automatically assigning the reviews. 

 To allow Canvas to assign a peer review to a student from within the student's own group, select the  Allow intra-group peer review  checkbox. 

 Assign Anonymous Peer Reviews 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If you want to make peer reviews anonymous, check the  Peer Reviews Appear Anonymously  checkbox. 

 Note:  Canvas DocViewer does not support anonymous comments, so it cannot be used for annotated feedback on assignments with anonymous peer reviews. 

 Save and Publish Assignment 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If you are ready to publish your assignment, click the  Save & Publish  button [1]. If you want to create a draft of your assignment and publish it later, click the  Save  button [2]. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 When your assignment is saved in a draft state, you can return to the page and publish it at any time by clicking the Publish button. 

 View Published Assignment 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 View published assignment. 

 You can also attach a rubric to the assignment for students to fill out when completing peer reviews. To  add a rubric to the assignment,  click the add  Rubric  button. 

   

   

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