Moodle ISU Workshop: Options in ISU Canvas for Faculty

Canvas Assignments for Peer Review

• Process
  • Students submit their work directly in the assignment.
  • Canvas can automatically assign reviewers, or you can assign reviewers manually.
• Benefits
  • Provides a clear structure for students.
  • Everyone who submits their work is assigned as a peer reviewer.
  • Students are notified in their dashboard when they are assigned as a peer reviewer.
  • Peer reviews can be set as anonymous.
  • Instructors can see the work and the peer review comments together in the Speed Grader.
  • A Rubric can be used for peer comments.
• Caveats
  • If the assignment is set to automatically assign reviewers, late submissions will not be assigned a reviewer.
  • To assign a grade to the reviewer, instructors will need to create a No Submission assignment and assign points in that assignment.

Canvas Discussions for Peer Review

• Process
  • Students post their work in a discussion
  • Reviewers can be assigned with one of the following options:
    • Students choose which posts to comment on.
    • Instructors manually assign reviewers.
    • Instructors set Canvas to automatically assign reviewers.
• Benefits
  • Students can choose who they review.
  • More flexible.
  • A Rubric can be used for peer comments.
• Caveats
  •  All initial work is public.
  • Peer reviews can only be created in graded discussions.
  • There is no option to make it anonymous.

• Review the instructions in How do I create a peer review assignment?

• Review the instructions in How do I create a peer review discussion?

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