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. 

The biggest difference between a regular peer assessment assignment and a live presentation assignment is that regular peer assessment assignments are potentially double-blind, meaning students won't know who they're reviewing or who reviewed them, whereas live presentation assignments are single-blind, meaning students know who they are reviewing and can select whom to review from a list of presenters. The image below shows the student reviewing screen for a live presentation group assignment. 

Create a Live Presentation Assignment

1. 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.
2. If you do not select to choose a standard workflow, you will need to build a custom assignment for Live Presentations: 
   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 grades will be generated.

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: 
   • The default workflow options is for students to only present and NOT submit an artifact, as shown in the screenshot below. If you want them to submit something, click each possible submission type until it is green. Please note that all student presenters (or one person from each group that is presenting) will still have to login and click the submit button on their assignment dashboard before presenting in order to add their names to the list of live presentations available for review.
   • Keeping File and/or Link is recommended if you want students to upload any materials associated with their presentation, like their presentation slides or a handout. With these options, someone from each group or each student presenting in an individual submission assignment should submit BEFORE giving the presentation.
   • Keeping Text is recommended if you want students to type a short introduction or other note that will be visible during the review process. With this option, someone from each group or each student presenting in an individual submission assignment should submit BEFORE giving the presentation.
3. Review: For the number of reviewers, select the number of presentations you want students to review. If you select all de-anonymized reviews, then students will have to review all presentations except their own. Student task grades will reflect the number of reviews required.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Deadlines: Students must submit and review before the end of the review deadline. Ideally, the review deadline should be some time after all of the presentations are completed.

Note:

• Even with ‘live presentations’ a student or one student from the group OR the instructor will still need to click ‘submit.’
  • If you have the students do it, they don’t have to submit anything, but they do have to submit their name/group name in order to be reviewed.
  • If you submit so for the 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.

• As soon as students submit, they will be able to review any other submissions in the assignment. This will allow student presentations to spread over several sessions if needed but you should make it clear to your students that they should not review anything before the presentation is given.
• Student submissions are NOT anonymous with the Live Presentation assignment setup - students will know who they are reviewing. Student reviewers ARE anonymous - students will never know who reviewed them. 
• Students will not receive their peer comments or results until the reviewing deadline or final assignment deadline has passed and results have been released.
• If you plan to have different students present during different sessions, you can either keep the assignment open over multiple sessions or weeks until everyone has presented and has been reviewed, or you can have a different assignment for each presentation session. If you do the latter, be aware that the grades may need to be manipulated or entered manually into your grade book because students will only get a submission grade for the assignments in which they submit. 

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