Create an Individual Peer Assessment Assignment

Peerceptiv Individual Peer Assessment assignments allow learners to submit their work and review other individual peer submissions in the program. Instructional designers can also choose to include tasks to have learners respond to the reviews they receive or complete a reflection on the process. To set up other types of assignments, refer to directions for Group Assessment assignments, Live Presentations, or Team Member Evaluation tasks. 

To create an assignment, start in the LMS if you are using one or open the Peerceptiv course for this program. We recommend that most programs use the 'Build a Custom Assignment' option so it can be customized for your specific outcomes. If you want an async assignment with deadlines and feedback, you can use a standard workflow. If you have used Peerceptiv before, you can Copy an Assignment and then make any needed edits.

Individual Peer Assessment Assignments

Choose Build a Custom Assignment and then Peer Assessment. Select No for Live Presentations and Individual Students for Who Submits?

We generally recommend No for Include feedback phase? for corporate learners. If you include Feedback, learners must wait until they have received all required reviews and evaluated those reviews in order to complete the assignment. The benefits of feedback are that it requires learners to view the comments they received and holds reviewers accountable for giving helpful comments. However, if there is not a steady stream of learners moving through the review process, it will extend the assignment completion time because learners need to wait on their peers to complete the required reviews before being able to give feedback on those reviews.

We generally recommend No for Include reflection phase? for corporate assignments where the learners need to move through the process as quickly as possible. If you include Reflection, learners will use the reviews they received and their experience from reviewing others' work to answer free-form reflection questions. They must answer all reflection questions in order to complete this task and receive their results. If you include a Reflection phase, then learners will need to receive at least one review on their work before they can complete the task.

Deadline Options

Peerceptiv Individual Peer Assessments can have no deadline, one final deadline, or three deadlines. Async deadlines are usually utilized at the end of a course, semester, or cohort when it needs to be closed out. Students can do any and all assignment tasks while the assignment is open, but once a deadline passes, that assignment or phase closes for all students and cannot be reopened. Async deadlines are final, so we only recommend using them when you want the assignment to end. 

• No Deadlines: If there are no deadlines, the assignment will run until it is unpublished or the course is archived. This assignment setting is best if you plan to have rolling submissions over a long period of time. There is no end date in Peerceptiv so learners will not receive deadline notification emails from Peerceptiv but they will receive notifications about their assignment progress if they do complete the assignment tasks.

• One End-of-Assignment Deadline: This is best if you want learners to have a deadline, even if it is multiple months or years in the future, but maximum flexibility until that deadline passes. In this setup, learners can continue to submit, review, and complete any other assignment tasks until the deadline passes. After the deadline, learners who have submitted will receive a grade if they have not already, and learners will be unable to complete any additional assignment tasks.
• Deadlines for Each Assignment Phase: This setting means that learners must submit at least 24 hours before the reviewing deadline and must complete reviews at least 24 hours before any other assignment tasks. This is best if you have a set deadline for your course or program and want all learners to receive peer reviews on their work. Learners who do not submit by the submission deadline will not be able to proceed with the assignment. Learners who do not review by the review deadline will not meet the completion requirements and will be blocked from any additional assignment tasks.

Confirm that the assignment visualization is accurate for the desired student workflow and click Submit. If you need to change any of the settings selected up to this point in the assignment creation process, you will need to contact [e-mail]. The following settings can be changed at a later time.

Editable Assignment Settings

1. Details: Enter the assignment name. If you are using an LMS, copy and paste the assignment name from the LMS and enter it here. The names, including punctuation and capitalization, should be identical for the easiest assignment connections using course copy.

2. Submission: Choose the submission types that you want to accept. If you keep all three options, learners will be able to upload files, links, or enter text into a text box. If you have a specific format that you want learners to use when they submit, please click the box of the type(s) you do NOT want. The red X on a box means that type is not permitted.

Then select whether you want learners to be able to resubmit after assignment completion. If you select Yes, learners will be able to use the results from their first attempt to improve their work and re-submit. If they resubmit, they need to repeat the entire peer review process. Their original submission and grade are NOT saved if they choose to resubmit.

If you select No, learners will only be able to complete the Peerceptiv process once for that assignment. 

3. Review: Select the number of reviews you want each learner to complete. If you are using Peerceptiv to generate grades on the quality of the submission, then we recommend that you select 3 reviews. If you are not using Peerceptiv to generate grades on the quality of the submission, then you can select 2 or even 1 review. The number of reviews required by each learner is equal to the number of reviews that their work must receive.

4. Grading: If you selected less than 3 reviews in the review setting or if you plan to only have comments on your rubric, then we recommend turning off the async accuracy check and setting up the assignment for “task grading only” or “ungraded - completion only.” We cannot guarantee valid or reliable submission grades for assignments that require less than 3 reviews. We also recommend selecting “No” for the accuracy check if your rubric has fewer than 5 rating prompts or no rating prompts.

Enforce Async Accuracy Check: If you select YES, the algorithm will check for review rating accuracy. If the learner does not pass the reviewing accuracy threshold, an overall grade of zero will be issued. You should only select YES if you want to hold learners accountable for accurate reviewing. You must require at least 3 reviews; you must have rating prompts on your rubric; and you must be prepared for learners to get an overall grade of zero if they aren’t accurate reviewers. 

We recommend selecting No if you are not using grades in Peerceptiv or if you want learners to complete the review process and then be done the assignment. No is also recommended for assignments with fewer than 3 required reviews and with 4 or fewer rating prompts in the rubric.

How would you like grades to be calculated? 

Submission Grading - Learners will get a grade for the quality of their submission when they finish the assignment and complete all of their required assignment tasks. The overall grade will be the combined average rating scores of all reviewers, converted to a 100-percentage point scale. This option is not typically used in professional or adult learning contexts.

Task Grading Only - Learners will get an overall grade based on their task completion for the assignment. If they complete all required tasks, they will receive 100%. If a learner doesn’t complete all assignment tasks, they will receive partial credit for completed tasks when the deadline passes. 

Ungraded - Completion Only - Learners will get a completion check mark when they complete their required tasks. This has no numerical grade associated with it. 

When will students be marked complete? After finishing their assigned tasks OR after finishing their assigned tasks and receiving reviews. If learners should move on from the assignment to other program tasks as quickly as possible, select 'After finishing their assigned tasks.' Learners will receive a completion mark within two hours of completing the final assignment task. 

If learners need the reviews on their work in order to move on to the program task, then select 'After finishing their assigned tasks AND receiving reviews.' There will be a lag for learners between when they submit and when they receive their results because of the time it takes for peers to review that work.

With all grading options, you can choose to show or hide rating, comment, or grade results from the student results pages. However, hiding grades will not prevent results from passing back to the LMS gradebook upon completion. Submission Grading assignments will send a submission grade, Task Grading assignments will send a task grade, and Ungraded assignments will send back a completion checkmark. 

5. Deadlines: In an assignment without deadlines, you will need to set the publication date and time. Learners will not be able to see the assignment or rubric until it is published. However, you should complete all edits to the assignment description, settings, and rubric before publishing the assignment.

In an assignment with one final deadline, you should set the deadline for the last day that learners can complete any work in the assignment. A learner will be able to complete any of the assignment tasks up until the deadline date and time. However, they will not be able to complete any assignment tasks after the deadline has passed. Async deadlines can be extended prior to the deadline time, but they cannot be extended after they have passed.

In an assignment with phase deadlines, you will set the publication date and the deadline for each phase. Learners can complete any assignment tasks prior to the deadline, but they must submit before the submission deadline and must complete all reviews prior to the review deadline. If a learner has not submitted by the submission deadline, they will not be able to move to the next phase, and if grades are calculated, they will get a 0 for the assignment. Async deadlines can be extended prior to the deadline time, but they cannot be extended after they have passed.

6. Advanced Settings:

Convert document submissions to PDF - We recommend allowing Peerceptiv to convert all document submissions to PDF for a smoother viewing experience. However, if students are required to submit a PowerPoint with audio or speaker notes, or a spreadsheet, then please uncheck this option.

Send email notifications - we will send students an email when they have received reviews and when they have results for the assignment.

7. Finish: Be sure to click the orange FINISH button to save the assignment settings.