How Assigning Peer Review For Students Have Come a Long Way Baby
In Canvas, you can automatically assign Peer Reviews to each student. Wow! That is quite an advancement in technology. Now you just press a button and the LMS automatically gives each student another student paper.
When I first started teaching online, I remember I had to manually download each student paper. Then, I had to upload to each student newsgroup or folder another student paper for students to download to comment on. Assigning Peer Review to other students used to be a time consuming task. I had to keep track who had handed in a paper, then I had to make sure each student got a different paper.
At my school when I heard that each student was to be assigned a paper to peer review, I remember asking my boss where to upload and download student papers expecting a long time consuming task ahead of me.
My boss laughed and gave me a screencast video which showed me that you just check an option when you edit your assignment and that's it. Peer Review assigning is done. After you check the option for required peer review for each student, then each student will see their assigned Peer Review in their calendar or agenda. All I have to do is grade that each student had peer reviewed somebody else's peer review.
Also, no need to wait for students to post their rough drafts to a forum either. You just check an option and then grade. No sweat. Sometimes, technology can do wonders!
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