Edit Settings and Deadlines – Peerceptiv Knowledge Base

This article will explain how to edit settings and deadlines in a Peerceptiv assignment.

To get started, click the settings gear icon near the top of the page.

Choose “Edit” to edit the settings and deadline. This is the most frequently-used option on this menu.

Choose "Manage Reviews" to manually assign reviewers or make all submissions available to all reviewers. Manually assigning reviewers is not typically recommended because it is more work for the instructor and relies on students meeting all assignment deadlines.

Choose “Delete” to delete the assignment. If you are using Peerceptiv connected to an LMS, deleting the assignment in Peerceptiv will only delete the Peerceptiv assignment and not the assignment or link in the LMS.

After you click Edit, you can click "Next" on the Assignment Editor until you see the settings or deadlines that you wish to edit or select the item you want to edit on the left navigation bar to jump to that setting.

Important note: You must click "Finish" at the end of the assignment creation wizard to save your settings changes and apply them to the assignment. The settings do not save until you click the yellow "Finish" button.

1. Details: Add an assignment name and description. If you have a detailed description posted elsewhere, you can simply refer students to that description or post the full description in both places. If you are using Peerceptiv within an LMS, we recommend including the assignment description in Peerceptiv rather than the LMS. Click Next to move to the submission type screen.

2. Submission: If all of the default submission types are allowed, students can choose to either upload a file, post a link, or directly type their submission into Peerceptiv (they must choose only one of these methods). To remove a submission type, click on that type and it will not be allowed, as shown by a red X instead of a green check.

Submission notes:

If students post a link, please remind them to make sure that any sharing or privacy settings are set to allow peer reviewers access.
Only one submission can be uploaded per student per assignment. If students need to upload multiple files, have them create a Zip file and upload that folder.
We recommend selecting "Link" as the submission type for video upload assignments. Students should upload their videos to a video hosting service (YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo, etc.) before uploading the link to Peerceptiv. Please deselect 'File' and 'Text' so that only links can be submitted.

3. Review:

How will reviews be distributed? In most cases, you should choose “Randomly” to use our sophisticated randomized distribution algorithm. Randomized reviewing is fair, unbiased, keeps the assignment running smoothly without instructor intervention, and easily accommodates late submissions. You should only use "Review Circles” or “Assign Manually” when you want to have manual control over which submissions students will be assigned to review.

Select the number of reviews each student will complete. For individual assignments where grades are being generated, there must be at least 3 reviews per document for valid and reliable grades. In situations where the instructor will be reviewing or the grades are not being counted toward the final grade, selecting fewer reviews per student is possible. Also, group assignments will generate valid and reliable grades with only 1 or 2 reviews per student.

4. Advanced Reviewing Options:

Allow extra, bonus reviews allows students to complete additional reviews beyond the required ones for extra credit. Each additional review completed will count as 10% added to the task grade. Students can only complete the same number of bonus reviews as required reviews. For example, if there are 3 required reviews, a student could complete up to 3 additional bonus reviews for a total of 30 percentage points added to the task grade. Bonus reviews that are started and not completed are counted against the student’s reviewing task grade.
Allow students who haven't submitted to peer review permits students to review without submitting their own work. If students choose to review without submitting, they are blocked from submitting as soon as they request the first peer document for review. This option allows students to get some credit for the assignment (the reviewing grade and reviewing task grade only) or facilitates assignments where only a portion of the class has to review or submit for any given assignment.
Require students to perform a self-review will require students to use the rubric to assess their own submission. Their ratings will not be counted toward the overall grade. Completing the self-assessment is counted towards their task grade.

5. Feedback: If the assignment has a Feedback stage, you can choose to accept the default prompt and ratings or edit them to have students focus on the specific criteria that the reviewers should include. The feedback stage cannot be added or removed after the assignment has been created. Please email support@peerceptiv.com with any questions.

6. Grading Options

Grading Style

Teacher Review Impact

Grade Release
- - Automatic grade release will publish the results immediately after the final assignment deadline passes. If the course is linked to the LMS, the overall assignment grade will be sent to the LMS grade book. Students will also be able to see their grade and the reviews on their document after grades are released.
  - Manual grade release means that an instructor or TA must release the results to students, giving the instructor a chance to review and approve the grades before the students see them. Students will not be able to see their grades, their average ratings, or the comments on their submission until the results are released.
    - If you want to hide any of the results from students, please select manual grade release. To hide rating results, comment results, or grades from the student results pages (so the students will never see them, even after grades are released), click "True" for the specific results you would like to hide.

Late Penalty

If you used a Peerceptiv workflow or set the options to allow late submissions and late penalties, then you can set the late penalty here. The default is for the late penalty to be 0 but you can change it on this screen. The penalty is deducted from the submission grade after it is calculated. If the submission is uploaded more than one minute after the deadline, it is considered to be one day late. You can waive the penalty for individuals after the assignment is over.

Grade Curve

This only applies to the submission grade of assignments with curved grading. A mean of 85 and a standard deviation of 10 has been shown to produce grades as valid and reliable as those by an expert reviewer. However, instructors can use the default settings or set their own mean and standard deviation.

If the assignment would typically generate high grades if graded by an instructor (for example, if it’s a low-stakes assignment where the students would likely generally receive an A on the assignment), consider raising the mean to 90 or even 95.

The reviewing grade for curved or benchmarked assignments has a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 10. This cannot be edited.

Grade Weight

Set the amount each grading category will count towards the overall percentage grade. The default 40% submission grade, 40% reviewing grade, and 20% task grade has been shown to generate overall grades that are as valid and reliable as instructor grades.

Adjust the numerical percentage amounts on the right with the arrows or type in the desired percentages. The total must be 100.

*If you do not have rating prompts on your rubric, you must put 100% of the weight on the Task Grade. Without rating prompts, there will not be the numerical data needed for the algorithm to generate submission or review grades.

7. Deadlines: Set the publication date (when students will be able to view the assignment), the deadline time, submission deadline, reviewing deadline, and feedback deadline. To edit these dates, click on the calendar, the end date, or the duration.

The publication date will automatically be set for tomorrow's date, but this can be changed once the assignment has been created. Set your publication date so that students cannot see it until you want them to see the assignment.

The deadline time is the time when each phase will end on the day set. This time is the same for all phases to reduce confusion.

Peerceptiv recommends allowing at least 2 days for each phase, with a longer reviewing phase for assignments that will take students a significant amount of time to complete the required reviews in a thoughtful manner.

8. Advanced Settings

Convert document submissions to PDF is recommended for optimal reviewing experience. However, if the file submission is a spreadsheet, PowerPoint with audio files, zip file, video file, or other file format that does not convert to PDF, please uncheck this box.

Send email notifications will send students an email when there is 24 hours before a deadline and the student has not completed a task, and when the grades are released. These notifications are also available in Peerceptiv by clicking on the bell icon on the right of the top navy bar. In-app notifications will be available even if off email notifications are turned off for an assignment.

If not all students are completing every assignment phase or if students are not completing all of the assignments set up in Peerceptiv, we recommend that you uncheck this setting.

9. Finish: Click Finish to finalize the settings and open the assignment in your course. You must click Finish every time that you make any changes in the settings editor or the changes will not be saved.

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