Live Presentation Assignments

These directions are intended to help instructors run assignments in Peerceptiv where students give presentations or complete other in-person non-anonymous work that is reviewed by their peers in real time, either during or after their work is shown. 

Create a Live Presentation Assignment

Live Presentation Assignment Settings

Live Presentation Submission Type and How to Submit for Students

How to Run a Live Presentation Assignment that Takes Place over Multiple Sessions

How to Use Instructor Control Mode

Live presentation assignments are single-blind, meaning the reviewers will see the names of the students or groups they are reviewing, but students won’t know who reviewed them. The image below shows a sample student reviewing screen for a live presentation group assignment.

Create a Live Presentation Assignment

Choose a Standard Workflow and either select to use the Live Presentations - Individuals assignment to have students submit individually or use the Live Presentations - Groups assignment to have students submit group presentations. These assignment workflows will have all of our recommended default settings, but you are able to edit the settings after setting up the assignment.

If you do not select to choose a standard workflow, you can build a custom assignment and select to use Live Presentations: 

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   1. Assignment Type: Select Peer Assessment and then select Yes for Use Live Presentations.
   2. Submission: Select either Individual Students or Student Groups. Instructor-submission assignments will not work for this assignment. 
   3. Review: You must select Peer Reviews for How are reviews generated?
   4. Feedback: Select whether you would like a feedback phase in which the presenters evaluate the helpfulness of the comments they received. We only recommend including the feedback phase if students are in reviewing circles or reviewing only a few presentations - do not include it if everyone is required to review all presentations. 
   5. Reflection: Select whether you would like a reflection phase. This requires students to reflect on their results (average ratings and comments) and respond to reflection questions.

Edit Live Presentation Assignment Settings

Click the gear icon on the dashboard, then select "Edit" to edit the assignment settings. 

1. Details: Add the assignment name and description.

2. Submission: 

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  • Select Live Presentation if students should not submit any materials into Peerceptiv; however, students will still be required to click the “Submit” button to submit their name for review. If you don’t want students to have to each click submit, you can submit for them (either by each student or for all students at once, see section below). 
  • Select File and/or Link if you want students to upload any materials associated with their presentation, for instance, their presentation slides or a handout. 
  • Select Text if you want students to type a short introduction or other note that will be visible during the review process. 

Note: With all of these options, students should submit BEFORE giving the presentation. Instructors can submit for students (either by each student or for all students at once, see section below). If there is no submission for the student or group, others will not be able to review that student or group’s work.

3a. Review: How will reviews be distributed?  

• Student Selection means that reviewers will see a list of all available presenters and can select presentations for review. Select this option if you plan to have students either review all presentations (All submissions required) or a selection of presentations that are not manually assigned (select a number of submissions required for review).
• Assign Manually means that the instructor will manually assign reviewers to review specific presentations; this is usually done by CSV upload. For further instructions on how to manually assign reviewers, please see this article on How to Use Review Circles or Assign Reviews Manually. 
• Review Circles means that students will only review the individuals in their review circle or group. Select this option if you plan to have breakout rooms or presentations done in small groups rather than the whole class. For further instructions on how to manually assign reviewers, please see this article on How to Use Review Circles or Assign Reviews Manually. 
• Instructor Control Mode means that the instructor will select a presentation and require that all students review that presentation live, in real time. When the student is done presenting, the instructor can end the presentation reviewing process and select another presenter for all students to review. This should only be chosen if you plan to have live presentations where you want everyone to review in real-time. For further information how Instructor Control Mode works, please see this section below. 

3b. Advanced Reviewing Options: In most cases, you will not want to include any of the advanced reviewing options. Students are automatically allowed to review before or without submitting when using a Live Presentation assignment.

4. Grading: You can keep or adjust the grading options.

• Grade curve: If you expect most students to do well, you could raise the mean. If you expect most students to score between 75% and 95% on their presentation, keep the mean of 85.
• Grade weight: We recommend putting most of the weight on the submission grade and some on the review and task grades. The submission grade will be determined by the average ratings received and the submission grade curve mean and standard deviation. The review grade will be based on the accuracy of the ratings given and the helpfulness of the comments. The task grade will be the number of reviews completed/the number of reviews required. If feedback is included, then the task grade includes the number of feedback tasks completed/ required.

5. Deadlines: Students may only begin reviewing once the submission deadline has passed, so you must make the submission deadline before the first presentation begins and before students need to start reviewing. We recommend always allowing late submissions so that students can continue to submit after the submission deadline if needed. Students must complete all their reviews before the end of the review deadline. Ideally, the review deadline should be set for after all of the presentations are completed. See this section for instructions on setting up and running an assignment in which the presentations take place over the course of multiple sessions or weeks. 

Live Presentation Submission Type and How to Submit for Students

Even with the ‘live presentations’ submission type a student or one student from the group OR the instructor will need to submit for them (either all students at once, or individually). 

• If you have the students do it, they have to click submit before the submission deadline for their name/group name to be available for review.
• If you would like to submit for all students at once, click the Advanced drop down menu on the Actions bar on the main dashboard, then Manage Reviews, then Options, then Submit All Live Presentations for Review. Note: This option should only be used for Live Presentation submissions because it does not allow you to upload files or links for students.

 

• To submit for individual students, go to Progress, click on a student’s name and then Submission. Click Submit on Behalf of… and follow the prompts for students to be able to review that person or group’s submission. Click on Live Presentation if you are not requiring students to submit anything.

How to Run a Live Presentation Assignment that Takes Place over Multiple Sessions

You can now use one Live Presentation assignment even if your presentations take place over the course of multiple weeks or sessions. 

Important Settings:

• Set a submission deadline that is before the first presentation date and before anyone is required to review. The review phase should begin whenever students need to start reviewing.
• Make sure you allow late submissions and do not enable late penalties. Some students may need to submit after the submission deadline, but as long as late submissions are allowed with no penalty, that should be fine. 
• If the assignment takes place over many weeks, you should set up an assignment that only has the submission and review phases; do not enable feedback or reflection as the students would be required to complete those phases after the review phase has ended. 

Other Notes:

• Students will be able to view all their reviews in their student results tab (average ratings and comments only, not grades) as soon as they are entered by their peers. This means that presenters do not have to wait for the deadline to pass to view the reviews they received. 
• Overall grades for the assignment will not be calculated until the final assignment deadline passes. If you need grades sooner, you may want to end the phases to close the assignment (click end phase on the dashboard), then manually record and transfer grades to your gradebook before changing the deadlines and reopening the assignment for the next session. 

How to Use Instructor Control Mode

Instructor Control Mode allows instructors to control which presentation students will actively review in real time. If you have enabled instructor control mode in the settings for the assignment, then you will see a button available to use on the dashboard under the deadlines timeline.

Click “Present Now” next to the name of the student who is presenting. When they are finished presenting, click End Presentation. If student reviewers aren’t done giving their reviews before you click End Presentation, they’ll still be able to finish their reviews later and they can go back and edit reviews as needed.

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