A Peer Review assignment allows your students to review each others’ work after the submission deadline. They can add feedback (such as written text, video/audio recordings or upload a file) but not a grade or Blackboard rubric. If you wish students to complete an informal rubric, please provide this as a downloadable file in the assignment instructions (‘Assignment Content’). To see the student view, visit the Peer Review student guide.
Set Up Peer Review
Settings Caveats
The instructor view allows you to:
- a) view the original submission,
- b) view the reviews made by the student,
- c) view the feedback provided by other students, who have reviewed this particular submission,
- d) provide a rubric entry, overall mark and enter feedback.
If you wish to provide students with instructions, or see the student view for yourself, see the student guide: Peer Review.
Set up a Peer Review Assignment
When setting up a Blackboard assignment, follow the initial settings and add instructions.
Select the Peer Review check box.
Click on the Select peer settings options link below the check box.
This will open the settings options allowing you to:
- Allocate the number of students to do reviews on the drop down list
- Confirm the assessment due date; you can alter this here and it will update the main due date box
- Set the due date for the peer review part of the assignment. The ability to review starts immdiately after the initial due date
Once set up, the information will display in the assignment settings area under the peer assessment option.
Associated Settings Caveats
If you have selected to peer review in the assignment options, certain settings will now become unavailable or have some restrictions.
Rubric
You can use a rubric to mark the students’ work; this is visible to students when making their own submission but not available for students to view or edit when peer marking. You may need to provide additional parameters, to help students carry out the review, for example, provide a downloadable file in the assignment instructions, which students can refer to (or complete and upload) when reviewing the submissions of others.
Groups
The student paper allocations are randomised, it is not possible to dictate who sees which paper. However, you can restrict access to Blackboard groups, meaning only students belonging to a certain group can submit/review each others work. You would need to set up several instances of the Peer Mark Assignment, and give access to each group. If you wish to collate instructor marks and feedback across the groups, create a weighted column in Gradebook.
Turnitin Similarity
The Turnitin similarity for Blackboard assignment cannot be used when peer review is enabled.
Late submissions
Students cannot review the submissions of others unless they have submitted their own work. After the initial due date has passed, students are able to continue submitting to the assessment point, once they have done so, their paper will be allocated to peers for review. If all their peers have already undertaken reviews, they may not receive a review of their own paper. However, they can still make a review of others work.
Anonymity
Students will not see the names of other the students when undertaking the peer review or when feedback is posted. They should be informed that they should not include their name on submissions or reviews.
Guide last updated on October 15, 2024
