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Peer Review Assignment Best Practices for Instructors

Canvas has a built-in Peer Review tool that allows instructors to assign student submissions to each other for feedback. This feature can be enabled for groups and can be set up to be anonymous. 

If the built-in tool in Canvas doesn’t meet your needs, there may be other options . 

Before You Start

We strongly recommend working with your LSP if you want to create a peer review assignment in Canvas to create the best experience for you and your students.

• Consider providing clear instructions or a rubric in your assignment for students on what a peer review is in Canvas , how they will grade, and how they can view their feedback .
• We recommend reiterating to students that it is important that they submit on time so they don’t hold the assignment up for others in the course.
• Students who haven’t submitted an assignment can no longer be invited to review others’ work. If students don’t submit, they can’t participate. 

How to Create a Peer Review Assignment in Canvas

• If this will be a group assignment, you will see an additional option to “Allow intra-group peer reviews”. Select this if you would like Canvas to select a member of the same group for that student to review.

Note – Canvas assigns peer reviews to individuals, EVEN if it’s a Group Project assignment. The only project member who will see feedback is the one the peer reviewer was assigned to. It will not be visible to other project members.

• If you select assign reviews manually , instructors will need to go in and pair up the students after students have finished submitting their assignments.
• Instructors should provide a buffer for students to allow for late submissions and not use the same time as the due date of the assignment.
• Once all additional settings have been configured, save and publish the assignment.
• Students will receive an email and a to do list item once they have been assigned a peer to review. Students will not receive a peer to review until they submit the assignment.

Keep in Mind

• We recommend using the Manually Assign Peer Reviews option (see screenshot below) to assign peer reviews later if they need to be done at a specific time. 

• “ If a student has not submitted the assignment or submits the assignment after the due date, the student will not automatically be assigned a peer review and you must manually assign one. ”
• For assignments with Turnitin enabled, only the original student can see the originality score, not the assigned reviewer. Reviewers won’t be able to assess this information, since it isn’t visible to them.

Known Issues 

The manual drag and drop option to assign peer reviews has not been reliable . For the best experience, we recommend using the “assign peer reviews now” option for this need instead.

• Automatic (randomly assigned) peer reviews may take up to an hour to be assigned to students. We recommend letting your students know that there may be a delay before submissions are available to them to review.
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Other Peer Review Options

• Wharton instructors – contact the Wharton Courseware team ( [email protected] ) for a full list of your options for peer review assignments. 
• If you’re already using Perusall in your course, consider using Perusall’s peer review functions . 
• For group assignments: consider creating a Canvas discussion board or using Ed Discussion to allow students to share feedback with the entire group.

Please contact [email protected] or your Local Service Provider for assistance. 

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2023

Use Peer Review in Canvas to Build Your Learning Community

by Michael Hernandez | Sep 16, 2022 | Canvas , Canvas Features/Functions , How-tos

It can be challenging to effectively communicate expectations for student work and build a class community–whether in person or online–that promotes meaningful learning. However, Peer Review in Canvas can help you do both!

How Peer Review can Support Your Teaching

By using Peer Review, you can help students get feedback for revision(s) before they submit projects, and you can assess the work of your students as reviewers. Students can leave comments and write global feedback on work that’s been submitted for review by their classmates.

Additionally, if you’re currently using Canvas Rubrics to share your expectations and assess student work, Peer Review can support that work even further by allowing students to give feedback using the same clear expectations you set out in your rubric. Even if you’re new to the practice of grading with rubrics, this process may help you to flag any areas where assignment expectations are unclear to students or where additional instruction may be helpful. (If you’re interested in learning how Canvas Rubrics can help you share expectations and help students thrive in your course, see our previous blog post on rubrics.)

How to Configure Peer Review

To set up peer review in Canvas, go to Assignments within your Canvas course. You can either add the process to an existing assignment or create a new assignment. When you’re editing the assignment, scroll down to the section titled Peer Reviews . ( Important: make sure the submission type is set to “Online.” )

Once there, you’ll have two settings to configure:

• Manual assignment is useful if you have specific pairs in mind. You’ll have the option to choose as many classmates’ submissions to assign to each student as you like.
• Automatic assignment allows you to designate a specific number of submissions for each student to review and let Canvas do the rest. If this is a group assignment, you’ll need to specify whether students within the same group should be matched.
• Once you’ve saved your selection, this cannot be changed . You will have to make a new assignment if you change your mind.
• While students will not know each other’s names in the peer review process, instructors and TAs will have access to that information.
• Note that Canvas DocViewer (Canvas’ built-in tool for document annotation) does not work for anonymous peer review. For more information on DocViewer, check out Canvas’ video overview .

Associating Rubrics with your Peer Review Assignment

If you choose to associate a rubric with the assignment, students will be able to submit their review by filling out the rubric. If you’d like to add a rubric, the process is as follows:

• Open your assignment page.

• If you’d like to create a new rubric, you can fill in your criteria, rating levels, and other rubric settings there.
• A menu allowing you to sort by course and preview individual rubrics will appear.
• When you’ve found the one you want, select it, scroll down in the preview, and click Use this Rubric .

A couple of notes to keep in mind:

• Whether you choose to use a rubric or not, students are required to submit their own work before they leave feedback for another student.
• Grades assigned by peer reviewers using your rubric do not go into your gradebook. Instructors still assign grades manually.

For further technical guidance on setting up and administering the peer review process in your class, check out this guide from Canvas . If your students require guidance on how to complete peer review, you can refer them to the student guide or video from Canvas. You can also contact ATS for an individual consultation or visit our office hours .

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If you’re looking for additional support using Peer Review in Canvas, please consider signing up for our Canvas Peer Review workshop . Visit the Academic Technology Solutions Workshop Schedule to see a calendar view of all current workshops.You can also consult with ATS or drop by our Office Hours .

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Canvas Peer Review

A peer review assignment enables students to provide feedback on another student’s assignment submission. Peer reviews allow communication between students and can help students master the concepts of a course and learn from each other.

• Can show students’ names or be completed anonymously
• Rubrics can be included to ensure consistent review criteria
• Manual or Automatic distribution
• Available for Discussions and Assignments

Getting Started

Canvas Peer Reviews are a part of the Canvas Calendar. Begin by logging in to Canvas .

Instructor Resources

• From within your Canvas course, edit or create a new assignment.
• Scroll about halfway down the screen, locate and check the box to Require Peer Reviews .
• Select to assign peer reviews manually or automatically .
• If assigning automatically, determine how many reviews each student should complete and the date/time they should be made available for review. Note: It is recommended to leave several hours between the assignment due date/time and the assignment of peer reviews so that late submitters are not excluded from being reviewed.
• How do I use peer review assignments in a course?
• How do I create a peer review assignment?
• How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment?
• How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
• How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?

Enabling peer review of a Canvas discussion

• From within your Canvas course, edit or create a new discussion.
• Scroll about halfway down the screen, locate and check the Graded box, then choose to Require Peer Reviews .
• How do I use peer review discussions in a course?
• How do I create a peer review discussion?
• How do I manually assign peer reviews for a discussion?
• How do I automatically assign peer reviews for a discussion?

Syllabus Statement

Student resources.

Locating a peer review activity in Canvas

When your instructor assigns a peer review as part of an assignment or discussion, you will receive a notification in several locations: on the Recent Activity view of the Dashboard, in your To Do List, and on the specific assignment/discussion.

Click the link to begin the peer review.

See the ‘ How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete? ‘ guide for more information.

Submitting a peer review in Canvas

To complete the peer review of an assignment/discussion, you must review the student’s assignment/discussion and add a comment in the comment sidebar.

If your instructor includes a rubric, which is a pre-determined outline of how an assignment is graded, you must assign a grade using the rubric. However, your instructor may also ask you to leave a comment in the comment sidebar.

Some peer reviews may also be anonymous, which means you cannot view the name of the student whose assignment you are reviewing. Additionally, the student cannot see your name as the reviewer when you leave a comment to complete the review.  

Review the ‘ How do I submit a peer review to an assignment? ‘ guide for more information.

Viewing a peer’s feedback in Canvas

When a peer has provided feedback on your assignment, you will receive a notification in the Recent Feedback section in the sidebar of your Canvas course. Feedback is also accessible via the assignment’s submission details or on the individual assignment page.

See the ‘ Where can I find my peers’ feedback for peer reviewed assignments? ‘ guide for more information.

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How to Set Up Peer Review in Canvas

• by Kory Lawson Ching
• April 10, 2020

This helpful tutorial was developed by Sylvia Morales ( [email protected] ), a Continuing Lecturer in the University Writing Program. 

Set-Up the Assignment that will receive the peer review

Step 1: Set up an assignment that will receive the peer review.

• Click on “require peer reviews”

• Only if you choose “automatically assign peer reviews” will you see the date box. “Assign Peer Reviews” is the date Canvas will automatically assign each student a review. 
• You could leave it blank, which means Canvas will assign the reviews immediately after the assignment due date. Assignment due at 10 am, reviews assigned at 10:01 am
• Or you could put a date/time an hour past the assignment due date. Assignment due at 10 am, reviews assigned at 11 am. Doing this will ensure that people who submitted their assignments late will still get a peer review assigned.

Step 2: Once peer reviews are assigned, you will see the “peer review” menu item on the right.

Step 3: Click on the above “Peer Reviews” link will allow you to see who has been assigned which paper to review and whether they’ve completed it. 

• You can always add or delete the automatically assigned reviews.
• You can also add one for someone who did not originally receive one (because they turned in their assignment after the reviews were assigned automatically by Canvas)

Set-Up a Separate Peer Review Assignment

I create a separate peer review assignment in my grade book for two reasons:

• I assign points for peer review
• I can put the assignment into a module to remind the students to complete the peer review.

However, you do not have to do this step.

Step 1: Create a new assignment called “Peer Review for X” or something similar:

• TIP: include “do not submit here but read these instructions” in the name so students don’t get confused.

Step 2: make sure to select “no submission,” but do put a due date

Step 3: Add this peer review assignment to your module

What Students See

Step 1: The module with both assignments

Step 2: They click on the “Workshop Draft” to submit the peer review

• TIP: You could make this clearer by putting instructions in the name of the assignment so it shows in the module. (“Workshop Draft - submit peer review here”)
• The below shows “none assigned” because I’m in the “test student” screen. However, students would see a name that is linked to that person’s submission.

This is what students would see:

• they will not see any comments that others wrote to the student writer
• They will see the “Add a Comment” box

Help Students

Instructions you could give to students

Your peer review assignments will be assigned through Canvas after the due date for the workshop draft has passed.

For more information about how to access peer feedback assigned partners, see the links below:

• How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?
• How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?
• Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewe d assignments?

Frequently Asked Questions

When will I see my assigned peer review?

• You will not see your assigned peer review until after the due date and time for the original assignment.

For example, if the workshop draft is due at 11:00 pm, you will see your assigned peer review for this assignment 11:01 pm.

• If you do not see your peer review after the original assignment due date and time, try refreshing your window.

Where do I see my assigned peer review?

• You must go to the original assignment to see your assigned peer review. For instance, go to the 1 Workshop Draft assignment to see your assigned peer review.
• You may also see your peer review as a “to do” item on your Canvas Dashboard.
• For more help, How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?

When is the peer review due?

• Check the calendar for due dates and times.
• ⚠️ Canvas will show that peer review is due at the same time as the original assignment, but this is wrong.

What should I write for my peer review?

• See the "Minimum Requirements" above.

How do I submit a peer review?

• For more help: How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?

How can I see the feedback that I received?

• For more help: Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments?

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Canvas Peer Review Guide for Students

What exactly are peer reviews?

Peer reviews are assignments where students receive another’s paper, make comments and annotate, and return to its original owner. They’re a tool used by faculty to improve student writing, feedback skills, and to clarify learning goals and assignment details.

However, they’re not always so clear. Through several conversations with students, we’ve learned two important things:

• Students need clear expectations.
• Rubrics are essential.

With this in mind, the Office of Digital Learning has prepared the following student guide to Canvas peer reviews. We hope this will help you to understand how Canvas can mediate the peer review process.

Introduction to Canvas Peer Review

Your instructor may ask you to do a peer review once you’ve submitted your assignment on Canvas. In order to locate the peer review, you can use the following steps:

• Click on the Assignments link in navigation.

2. Click the title of your selected assignment.

3. Under Assigned Peer Reviews, you will see the review assigned to you (sometimes anonymous). Click on the student name or review available.

4. To download the submission, click the name of the assignment. For annotating the document within Canvas, select View Feedback.

5. From this window, you can add comments, highlight (and even write!) directly to submission.

• To leave a comment, click on the “ballon” icon.
• For highlight, click on the next icon of a “pen.” From here you can also leave comments similar to Microsoft Word.
• To add text, click on the “T.”
• For writing, on computer or via an iPad, use the “paint brush” icon.

6. If you’ve been assigned to review via a rubric, you do not have to annotate the document for it to be considered “completed.” However, please follow your instructors instructions on how to complete the peer review! To use the rubric, click on the top right corner, “Show Rubric.” When you are finished, click the “Save Comment” button.

7. Once you have completed your annotation, rubric, etc., feel free to share an assignment comment for the entire document. This is often required if there is not an attached rubric. This is where you can re-upload your comments if you chose to annotate the document outside of Canvas.

8. Don’t forget to click save!

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Peer Review Assignments have multiple advantages

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Assigning students to review each other’s work has many advantages, both for the student completing the review and the one receiving the feedback.  The student who reviews their classmate’s work benefits from learning new content and observing the quality of the work of their peers and thus improving their own work.  They gain experience providing thoughtful, critical feedback.

The student receiving the feedback begins to see a wider audience for their work than just the instructor.  They also gain comfort around receiving feedback from a peer (that’s a beneficial life-skill in and out of the classroom).  Peer reviews can help the instructor as well, they can speed up the grading process and help provide another point of view.

Canvas makes distributing students’ work to peers and gathering feedback easy, but it’s necessary to provide the tools the students will need.  Tips for creating successful peer review assignments include:

• Clear requirements – obviously you’ll want to let the students know the specifics of the assignment and exactly what’s expected of them.
• A rubric – this is helpful to the student completing the assignment, as well as later on, when they review their classmate’s work.
• Knowledge of the type of feedback they’re expected to provide.  Be clear with your students about what you want them to address, and how.  Give them the tools they need to provide constructive criticism.
• A timeline – timeliness is important in the peer review process.  If an assignment isn’t turned in on time, it risks being left out of the peer-review process.

Creating a Peer Review Assignment in Canvas

To create a peer review assignment, go to your course and start to create an assignment as you normally would.  On the Assignment page, you’ll see an area for “Peer Reviews” and a box next to “Require Peer Reviews”.  Checking that box will expand the options.

Peer Review Options

Select whether you want to manually assign the submissions or allow the system to assign them automatically.  Unless there’s a specific reason you really want to control this, save yourself some time and let the system do it for you.  Select how many reviews each user (AKA: student) should complete.

Enter a date on which the reviews will be distributed under “Assign Reviews”.  Obviously, this date must be after the initial due date, when the assignment itself is due. TIP: If you have the luxury of time, leave a grace period here to allow for late papers .

As instructor, you have the ability to choose if the reviews appear anonymously.  If you select to have the reviews appear anonymously, the students will not see the names of the person they are providing feedback for, nor will they see the name of the person who has provided the feedback.  The instructor, naturally, maintains omniscient power over all content in their course.

Students will find the submissions they are to review on the Canvas page for the assignment.  Feedback is immediate.  As soon as the complete their review, the original student will see the feedback on their “Grades” page in Canvas.

More information on creating peer review assignments in Canvas .

How to Create a Peer Review Assignment Using FeedbackFruits in Canvas

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At a Glance

The Group Member Evaluation tool in FeedbackFruits streamlines the way students assess their peers’ collaboration skills. As the instructor, you specify the criteria your students will use to evaluate their peers’ contribution to group work. Groups are automatically synced from the People tool in Canvas to FeedbackFruits.

Additionally, you can require that students add comments to the feedback they have provided to their peers, thereby combining quantitative and qualitative feedback.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to create a peer review assignment using FeedbackFruits in your Canvas course.

Create Groups

If you’d like students to provide peer feedback to some or all of their group members, first you need to create your groups in your Canvas course:

• How do I add a group set in a course?
• How do I manually create groups in a group set?
• How do I manually assign students to groups?

Create a Peer Review Assignment

• Type the assignment title in the Assignment Name field [1]. If you created your assignment as an assignment shell, this field will be populated for you, but you can change it if necessary.

• Note: If you leave this field blank, you will not be able to publish/save the assignment. You can add a voice note or an attachment to the instruction if needed.
• Individually
• Individually: Students will individually get assigned to anyone.
• Note: This option is disabled if ‘as a group’ is chosen.
• Note: This option is disabled if ‘individually’ is chosen.

• Groups selected to participate (select the Group Set you’ve already created).

• To learn how to set up criteria, refer to Setting up feedback criteria (rubrics, scale ratings and comment criteria) .

• Reviewers will not be able to view or edit their reviews after this deadline passes.
• Leave the deadline blank to allow reviewers to view and/or edit their feedback indefinitely.

• If you want students to review all their group members, we recommend selecting All .

• Reviewer anonymity: Enabling this option will make reviewers anonymous. Reviewers will still see the name of the peer they are reviewing. Instructors can also see the name of the reviewer.
• New user interface design: Students use the new design for reviewing and reading feedback. This option is enabled by default and is recommended.
• Optional – Rate Reviewers: You can choose if you’d like students to rate their reviewers or reflect on it [1].

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2. Set up PeerMark

Once PeerMark is enabled, you will see a PeerMark tab show on the top of the page. It has a drop-down list that gives you two options:  PeerMark Setup  and  PeerMark Reviews  (see the screenshots below). You may choose  PeerMark Setup  to customize how and when students should do the peer reviews. Peer reviews can be automatically assigned, you may allow students to choose which submission they would like to review. You can also decide whether the peer reviews are anonymous or attributed. 

Please refer to  the detailed instructions on how to set it up . 

3. Create PeerMark Questions

When you create the assignment, you can choose to use a rubric for the peer review. The rubric can be used for scoring the assignment submissions by using the criteria and scales defined in the rubric. If you want your students to provide additional feedback, you may add specific questions to solicit responses. You may choose questions available in the library or create your own questions, which could be saved to the library for use in the future. Two question types are available: Free Response and Scale. 

To learn more, please refer to  this documentation on how to add PeerMark questions .

4. Review assignment instructions before publishing it

After you finish PeerMark setup, you can publish the assignment. However, we recommend that you review the instructions of the assignment to see if they provide students with clear information on what they are expected to do and how to do it for the peer reviews. Here is a checklist for you to consider regarding what to be included in the assignment instructions: 

• When is the assignment due? 
• When are students assigned to do the peer reviews?
• When are the peer reviews due? 
• Are peer reviews assigned to students or do you allow them to select the peer reviews?
• How many assignment submissions will each student review? 
• How are students expected to do the peer reviews? For example, are they supposed to respond to any questions? Should they provide inline comments?
• Are the peer reviews anonymous?
• Does students' evaluation of the assignment submission count for its grade?
• Do students get credit for completing the peer reviews? 
• Are there any instructions you can provide to your students regarding how to do the peer reviews? - The section below, How does it work for students? provides resources that you can provide to your students.

5. Provide instructor feedback

Besides having students review and provide feedback on the assignment submissions, you may provide your feedback as the instructor.

This video tutorial  demonstrates how to use QuickMarks and other commenting tools to provide feedback. 

6. Verify and review students' peer reviews

You can verify if students have completed the peer reviews assigned to them and review the feedback they provided. Please watch  this video tutorial  for more details.

Instructor Guides

The  instructor guides  on the Turnitin website provides help documentation on creating and managing Turinit assignments, using and interpreting similarity report, as well as setting up and managing PeerMark. 

How does it work for students?

The PeerMark assignments allow students to read, review, and evaluate assignments submitted by their peers. The basic stages of the PeerMark peer review process are: 

Submit a Turnitin assignment in Canvas  - We recommend that you have the assignment submission checked for its originality, grammar, spelling, etc. Students could use the reports generated from Turnitin to improve their assignments before submitting the final version. That means you need to allow multiple submissions before the assignment is due. Here is a  video tutorial  on how students submit a Turnitin assignment and view the originality and e-rator reports.

Conduct Peer Reviews  -  This tutorial  demonstrates how students can use QuickMarks and other commenting tools to conduct peer reviews and provide feedback in a PeerMark assignment. 

View and rate peer feedback  - After the peer reviews are released, students can view the feedback they received from their peers. They can also rate the helpfulness of the review by selecting a number on a scale from 0 to 10. Here are  instructions on how students view and rate peer feedback

Student Guides

The  student guides  on the Turnitin website provide help documentation for students on how to submit a Turnitin assignment, interpret the similarity report and the e-rator feedback, and how to conduct peer review and provide feedback in a PeerMark assignment. 

Technology for Peer Review: Canvas Peer Reviews

Introduction.

The Assignments tool in Canvas gives you an option of requiring peer reviews. Setting up the peer reviews takes a few steps: 

• Enable peer reviews when creating a new assignment. 
• Manually or automatically assign peer reviews. 
• Decide whether the peer reviews will be anonymous or not.
• Save the assignment draft. 
• Add a rubric for peer reviews. 
• Review the instructions of the assignment before publishing it.
• Verify and view students' peer reviews.

Enable peer reviews when creating a new assignment

When creating an assignment, you can require students to review submissions of this assignment by other students and provide feedback What you need to do is check the box next to  Require Peer Reviews  in the assignment settings. 

Manually or automatically assign peer reviews

You have two options when assigning peer reviews: 

• Manually assign peer reviews : Choose this option if you want to assign a particular student to review another.  Here are instructions on how to do it . 
• Automatically assign peer reviews : If you choose this option, Canvas will randomly assign peer reviews for you. You need to decide how many reviews each student needs to complete, and enter the date when the peer reviews will be assigned. The Assign Reviews date must come on or after the assignment due date. If left blank, Canvas will use the assignment due date.   Here are instructions on how to do it . 

Note : When automatically assigning peer reviews, students will not be assigned peer reviews or see their assigned peer reviews until they have submitted their own assignment. When manually assigning peer reviews, students can complete their assigned peer reviews without having to submit their own assignment first.

Decide whether the peer reviews will be anonymous or not

If you want to make peer reviews anonymous, check the box next to  Peer Reviews appear Anonymously . Anonymous peer review is a double-blind process. The reviewer cannot see the name of the assessee, and the assessee cannot identify the reviewer. 

Save the assignment draft

Once you finish configuring the assignment settings, you may save a draft of the assignment by clicking the  Save  button. We do not publish the assignment at this time because there is one more thing to do, adding a rubric for the peer reviews. This step cannot be done until we save the draft. 

Add a rubric for peer reviews

After you save the assignment draft, you can see that you have the option of adding a rubric that students can use for evaluating their peers' work. Using a rubric can help guide students' peer reviews by providing them with criteria that are clearly defined for the evaluation. Here are  instructions on how to create and add a rubric for assignments . 

Review the instructions of the assignment before publishing it

After you add the rubric for the peer reviews, you can publish the assignment. However, we recommend that you review the instructions of the assignment to see if they provide students with clear information on what they are expected to do and how to do it for the peer reviews. Here is a checklist for you to consider regarding what to be included in the assignment instructions: 

• When are the peer reviews due? - Note that you can only set the due date for the assignment submission in the settings. You have to provide the due date of the peer reviews in the instructions.
• How many reviews will be assigned to each student?
• How are students expected to do the peer reviews? For example, is there a rubric for them to use? If yes, are they supposed to write comments in addition to evaluating the assignment with the rubric? 
• Do students get credit for their peer reviews? - The peer reviews assignment won't allow you to assign a grade for students who completed the peer review. However, you may create a no-submission assignment and assign students a grade for completing the task.
• Are there any instructions you can provide to your students regarding how to do peer reviews in Canvas? - The section below,  How does it work for students?  provides resources that you can provide to your students.

Verify and view students' peer reviews

You can verify if students have completed an assigned peer review in the peer review page. You can also use SpeedGrader to view how each student evaluated the assignment submission by using the rubric, and what comments they provided. Here are  instructions on how to verify and view students' peer reviews .

Instructor Guide

• How do I use peer review assignments in a course? 
• How do I create a peer review assignment? 
• How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment? 
• How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
• How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?

A peer review assignment does not look any different to students than other Canvas assignment that does not require peer reviews. Therefore, students will submit the assignment the way they usually do for any assignments. The peer reviews are not assigned to the students until after the assignment is due. 

The video tutorial below demonstrates how students conduct peer reviews in Canvas: 

In summary, here are three essential things that student need to know about peer reviews: 

How do students know when a peer review is assigned to them?

Once a peer review is assigned to students, they will be notified about the task via email. Please note that how they receive the email notification depends on how they set up their notification preferences. 

Students can also view a notification in three areas within the Canvas course site: 

How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?

You can provide the link below to students for related instructions:  

How do students submit a peer review to an assignment?

The process of peer reviews is similar to what instructors would do when they grade assignments.  If the assignment submission is  a file supported by Canvas DocViewer , it can be rendered in  SpeedGrader , which is a tool for grading assignments and quizzes and providing feedback within the submissions. Students can use the markup tools of the SpeedGrader to provide annotated comments on the assignment submissions. 

If a rubric is provided for the peer reviews, students could score the assignment by using the criteria defined in the rubric. Please note that the score does not get entered into the gradebook. Only the instructor can actually grade the assignment. 

Adding comments on each score on the rubric is optional, but could be encouraged because it is an opportunity for the reviewers to explain why they gave a certain score for each criterion. Please note that the annotated comment would not be anonymous so it should not be used for anonymous peer reviews. 

In addition, overall comments can be added by typing in a comment box or attaching a separate document. Video or audio comments can be recorded and attached. 

You can provide the link below to students for related instructions:   

How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?

How do students view feedback from peer reviewers?

Students can find peer feedback on their assignment submissions in several places. First, there is a notification under  Recent Feedback  on the right sidebar in Canvas. They can go to  Assignments  and open that particular assignment to view the feedback. 

Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments?  

Canvas Peer Reviews vs. Turnitin PeerMark

You just learned how to use Canvas Peer Reviews and Turnitin PeerMark for peer review assignments. They have some features in common, but each seems to have something unique. You might be thinking: which tool should I use? To help you make decisions, we do a side-by-side comparison of these two tools in what they enable you to do in terms of these four aspects: 

• Schedule peer reviews
• Assign peer reviews
• Conduct peer reviews
• Assess peer reviews

You can download the 2-page feature comparison below to learn more details. 

Strategies for Using Peer Review Effectively

Make it transparent

Purpose, task, and criteria are three components of the  Transparency Framework  for creating assignments. This framework can be applied to peer review. You should communicate with students about the key benefits, the purposes, the process, and the criteria of peer review, which will help students take this task seriously and put efforts into it. 

Consider students' workload

You need to consider students' appropriate workload when you decide how many reviews should be assigned to each student and when the peer review will be completed. Having to review too many submissions within a short time could affect the quality of the feedback provided. 

Use rubrics or provide question prompts

Develop a rubric to guide students' review:  what to be reviewed and what criteria are to be used for the review. Go over the rubric with students and address questions they may have on applying the rubric criteria to their review. If you do not use a rubric, you may consider asking a few free-response and/ or scale questions to guide students' peer reviews. 

Offer guidance on providing good feedback

Provide students with guidelines on how to provide good feedback.  Model the respectful, informative, and constructive commentary that you expect of your students. You may use the RISE model as a guide for providing quality peer feedback:

Reflect (Recall, Ponder, and Communicate) :

• I relate/concur/disagree with X because…
• I like what you did with X because…

Inquire (seek information and/or provide ideas through questioning) :

• Have you considered looking at X from Y perspective?
• When you said X, am I understanding that you meant XY?

Suggest (introduce ideas for improvement of current iteration) :

• You might want to consider tweaking X for Y effect…
• You might want to include supporting information for X resource …

Elevate (raise a higher degree or purpose in future iterations) :

• Perhaps you can expand on this in X fashion to further address Y…
• Perhaps you can re-purpose X as Y for Z…

Provide help guides on using the peer review tool

Assume your students do not know how and provide help guides on how to use the peer review tools. You may use the student guides included in the previous sessions. 

Allow revision and resubmission

Provide students an opportunity to revise their work based on the feedback they received and resubmit their improved product. 

Recommended Resources

• Using Peer Review to Improve Student Writing : This is a comprehensive guide on using peer review from the University of Michigan. Although it is focused on using peer review to improve student writing, the strategies and techniques could be applied in other disciplines.
• Using Student Peer Review in Any Class : This resource compiled by the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Waterloo summarizes the Why and How of using peer review in any class. It also provides a list of other resources and further readings.

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Using assignments in Canvas provides a streamlined process for assigning homework and creating quizzes for students.  Canvas considers an ‘assignment’ to be anything that is graded, whether that be a quiz or homework assignment, and whether it’s delivered entirely online, paper-and-pencil, or is a participatory assignment with no actual deliverable.

This Quick Start guide will cover the creation of assignments where the student submits a file electronically, on paper, using an external tool such as Turnitin or Panopto , or where no submission is expected (e.g. class participation). See How to Create Tests and Quizzes for Your Canvas Course and Create and Manage Discussions for more information about using those tools as assignments.

1. In the Course Navigation menu, click the Assignments link.

2. Click “ +Assignment ” at the top right.

3. Write the assignment title and directions for students.

4. Assign the number of points available for the assignment.

5. Choose an “ Assignment Group” . Assignment groups are, in essence, a category of assignment. For more information about using Assignment Groups, see the Canvas guides regarding Assignments.

6. There are four submission types :

• No Submission: an activity where nothing will be collected from students (e.g. a participation grade)
• For the full details about the online assignment subtypes, (text entry, annotation, file upload, etc.), please see the official documentation .
• We have a recorded mini-webinar on annotation assignments, including assignment ideas, available on the Training Webinars page.
• On Paper: assignments/quizzes/activities that were written on paper and collected by the instructor
• External Tool: assignments submitted through a 3rd party tool that is integrated with Canvas, such as a textbook publisher’s website or Turnitin

7. Submission Attempts: You may allow unlimited submission attempts for Online assignments, or restrict attempts to one or more. When a student submits to an assignment they have already submitted to, the previous submission is retained as well, and the instructor may view both.

8. Group Assignments and Peer Reviews:  Assignments can be created as either a group assignment or peer review assignment.

9. Assign options- You can assign an assignment to your entire class, a specific student, and/or a section of your class. You can also set the due date and the availability dates (when your students can submit their assignment). Each section can have different due dates and availability dates.

10. If you are finished creating the assignment, click on “ Save & Publish “. If you are not finished creating the assignment, click on “ Save ” and you may come back and work on it more later without students having access to it.

Instructor Help for Assignments

Creating assignments.

• How do I create an assignment?
• How do I add a moderated assignment to be graded by multiple reviewers?
• How do I create an online assignment?
• How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
• How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
• What assignment types can I create in a course?
• How do I limit submission attempts for an assignment?
• How do I add an assignment that includes anonymous grading?
• How do I enable anonymous instructor annotations in student submissions?
• How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?
• How do I publish or unpublish an assignment as an instructor?

Managing Assignments

• How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
• Can a student resubmit Canvas assignments?
• How do I assign an assignment to everyone in a course?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course group?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course section?
• How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?
• How do I view differentiated assignments with different due dates in a course?
• How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
• How do I delete an assignment?
• How do I duplicate an assignment?
• How do I move or reorder an assignment?
• How do I use Direct Share to copy an assignment to another course?
• How do I use Direct Share to send an assignment to another instructor?

Creating and Managing Peer Review Assignments

• How do I create a peer review assignment?
• How do I use peer review assignments in a course?
• How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
• How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment?
• How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?

Creating External Tool Assignments

• How do I add an assignment using an external app?
• How do I create a cloud assignment with a Microsoft Office 365 file?

Using Assignment Groups

• How do I add an assignment group in a course?
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• How do I create rules for an assignment group?
• How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?

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Peer review assignments have two parts: the creation of the assignment, and the usage of the reviews once they’ve been done. Let’s take a look at how to create and use peer review assignments within Canvas.

Creating a Peer Review Assignment

• Enter your assignment details: Assignment title, description/instructions, points possible, etc.
• If using an online submission type, choose the types of submissions that will be accepted: text entry, file uploads, etc.
• Optional: Check the “This is a group assignment” option if you intend on doing a peer reviewed group assignment.
• Set any date options such as due date and availability dates in the Assign section.
• Click Save or Save and Publish if you are finished creating your assignment and are ready for it to go live to your students.

Using a Peer Review Assignment

Once students have begun submitting their peer review assignments, you can view the feedback that has been given.

To complete a peer review, students must review the assignment and leave a comment on the submission details page [1].

Students cannot view previously submitted comments by any other reviewers, including comments by TAs or other instructors.

You can also assign a rubric to the assignment. If the assignment includes a rubric [2], students must only complete the rubric to complete the peer review. However, you can choose to ask your students to also leave a comment in the comment sidebar. The rubric score is used for an assessment opinion only; you must review the assignment and assign the final grade.

Student Guide to Submitting a Peer Review Assignment

A helpful tip when using peer review assignments is to provide some instruction to your students on how to complete the assignment with Canvas. You can easily include a link to this handy guide created by Canvas in your assignment instructions, which will guide them through the process.

Parts of this page were built using content from the Canvas Guides which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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Peer Review in Canvas

Contributors: Isabel Elizalde, Misty Hamideh, Lindsay Murphy

Enabling Peer Review on your Canvas assignment gives students a way to provide feedback on their classmates’ work. The peer review process exposes students to different perspectives and approaches to the same task, and can often deepen their understanding of the material.

Peer review can be used for various types of assignments, such as:

• Writing assignments (essays, reports, research papers)
• Multimedia projects (videos, presentations)
• Problem sets or coding exercises
• Artistic or creative works (drawings, designs, compositions)

Setting up effective peer-reviewed assignments can be tricky. Consider scheduling a consultation with OAI staff to get help through the process!

How do I set up Canvas Peer Review?

• Setting Up Peer Review Assignments
• Managing Peer Review Workflow
• Providing Feedback on Peer Reviews

Canvas supports peer review through the Assignments tool. When creating a new activity, you can enable the “Peer Review” option and configure settings like:

• Anonymous or named reviews
• Number of peer reviews required per student
• Instructions and rubrics for reviewers

Here are some things to consider as you set up your peer review assignment:

Include the due dates for both the initial submission and peer review comments in your assignment description.

Because you cannot set separate due dates for the initial draft posting and peer review phases, communicating both due dates in the assignment description will make your expectations clear and help ensure that all students have a paper to review. Using Announcements to make sure students stay on track is also a great idea!

Be sure to highlight the importance of submitting initial drafts on time.

Students who don’t submit an assignment cannot be assigned another’s work to review. (Note: If you have chosen to “ Automatically Assign Reviews ”, students who did not submit the assignment by the due date will not be automatically assigned a classmate to review and thus will need to be added manually .)

Peer review may be new to some students.

Consider sharing a model and/or rubric that gives students a framework for providing feedback. ( Note: If you attach a rubric to the assignment, peer reviewers are also able to access this rubric. Rubrics used by peer reviewers for feedback are not included in the final grade. )

• How do I create a peer review assignment?
• How do I use peer review discussions in a course?

Once the assignment is published, you can monitor the progress of submissions and peer reviews through the Assignments page. Canvas provides an overview of the peer review status, allowing you to see which students have completed their reviews and which ones are still pending. If needed, you can extend deadlines or reassign peer reviews to ensure each submission receives the required number of reviews. There’s also a Reminder tool you can use to send a notification to students who have not completed their assigned reviews!

What Should Students Expect?

Peer reviews are not assigned until:

• The student has submitted their own assignment, AND
• The date set by the instructor to assign the reviews has passed (if you choose to assign reviews automatically) or the instructor assigns the peer reviews manually.

Until both of these things have happened, the peer review assignment will not show up on the student’s To Do list or on the original assignment. As many students rely on the To Do list to keep track of their assignment due dates, be aware that this may cause some confusion.

Note: Peer review details do not show up in Student View.  

It may be helpful to ask students to watch this overview video of the peer review process in Canvas:

Canvas Student Guide - Peer Review

As the instructor, you may want to provide feedback to the students on the peer reviews. Canvas allows you to view and comment on the peer reviews themselves, offering feedback on the quality and accuracy of the reviews. You can also use SpeedGrader to view each student’s work alongside the peer reviews they received, making it easier to assess their overall performance and provide your own feedback.

Canvas does not have a way to automatically assign a grade for completing a peer review. However, if you would like to assign points for peer reviews, you can create a No Submission assignment in the Gradebook and assign points manually. The Peer Review page for the assignment will show the names of students who have completed the peer review. ( Note: You can find a link to the Peer Review page on the main Assignment page under Related Items. )

Group Peer Review Assignments

Peer review can also work with group assignments. By creating group set , you can assign students to specific groups and distribute peer review tasks accordingly.  

Some important things to know about using peer review for group assignments:

Peer reviews are assigned to individuals, not groups.

Each group only needs to have one member submit the assignment, but this submission will show up for every student in the group. When the peer reviewer makes comments on their assigned classmate, these comments are compiled with other comments from reviewers who were assigned the same submission. In this way, each member of the group will see comments from all the peer reviewers in their feedback.

By default, automatically assigned peer reviews will not be assigned to members of the same group.

If you would like to allow group members to review their own group’s work, be sure to check the option to “Allow intra-group peer reviews”. This will randomize the peer review assignments, not paying attention to group membership. (Note:  The only way to ensure that students are assigned only to members of their own group is to set peer reviewers manually.)

Learn More Elsewhere

Canvas Instructor Guide - Peer Review

How to Plan and Facilitate Successful Peer Review in Canvas

Dynamic Rubrics: The Key to Better Peer Review

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✔️Put in Zeros for Missing Assignments

If students are missing assignments, you will need to put in zeros for those missing assignments. The easiest way to do this is to open your Grade Center and look for empty grade cells.

Some instructors may also use the  Missing Submission Policy  in the gradebook settings.

Resource:   How do I enter and edit grades in the Gradebook?

✔️Remove any Extra Categories and/or Columns

• Review the Assignments tab for any extra categories you didn’t use in your course. A common one is the category of “Imported Assignments” that gets created whenever assignments are imported from another course.
• Review all the Gradebook columns and make sure there aren’t any extra columns cluttering up your gradebook. These could be from duplicate assignments or assignments that were created but never published.  You can delete these from the Assignments tab.

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It is a good practice to backup or copy your course materials at the end of the semester by exporting your Canvas course. You may share your exported course with another Canvas user, upload to another institution’s account at a later date, or retain the course as a backup on your local computer. For instructions on how to do this, see  How do I export a Canvas course?

Note:  Exports are packaged as IMSCC ZIP files, which can only be opened by programs that support Common Cartridge files. You may also change the extension from .imscc to .zip and treat it like any other .zip file.

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The end of term is a good time to  organize your Canvas Dashboard . You may unfavorite (“unstar”) any published courses you don’t want on your Dashboard anymore. A concluded course that has not been favorited will appear in the “Past Enrollments” list (Courses>All Courses).

Note: Concluded courses cannot be favorited (“starred”).

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• Participate in Faculty Mentor governance and on other academic committees as needed
• Execute administrative responsibilities, service to CalSouthern and community; and Faculty as assigned by the Dean.  

SPECIAL DUTIES AND/OR ASSIGNMENTS

Occasionally, the Dean may require Faculty Mentors to:

• Supervise Learners attending courses, practicums, Doctoral Project Boot Camp, and Write Days or other department learner-centered events
• Prepare and present materials within courses
• Prepare and present evidence of Continuing Education (CE); and
• Assess the quality and content of oral presentations (including doctoral dissertation defenses).

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Mentor position does not have any supervisory responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Except for special extenuating circumstances, such as extensive and recognized professional expertise and experience, Faculty shall possess professional experience related to the mentoring assignment and an accredited college degree equal to or higher than the degree sought by the assigned Learner, and a minimum of three years of online teaching experience. Previous experience with online instruction and learning management systems is required. Experience with Canvas LMS is preferred.

School of Behavioral Sciences:

• Terminal degree from a regionally accredited institution in psychology, counseling, therapy, marriage, and family, or other related social or behavioral science discipline
• Terminal degree from an institutionally accredited institution with 18 graduate hours in psychology, counseling, therapy, marriage, and family, or other related social or behavioral science discipline
• Active license (Preferred): Psychologist, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (LMHP), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Psychologist

School of Business and Management:

• Terminal degree from an institutionally accredited institution in business, management (administration or evidence-based), operations research and management sciences, IO psychology, political science (theory), economics/econometrics, or research design and analysis
• Terminal degree from an institutionally accredited institution in a related discipline with 18 graduate hours in business, evidence-based management, operations research and management sciences, economics/econometrics, research design and analysis, or other related hard science area

School of Education:

• Terminal degree from an institutionally accredited institution in K-20 education, higher education, corporate training, education technology, or education administration
• Terminal degree from an institutionally accredited institution in a related discipline with 18 graduate hours in K-20 education, higher education, corporate training, education technology, education administration, or related social science area

School of Nursing:

• Master’s degree in Nursing
• Terminal degree in Nursing or related field from an institutionally accredited institution
• Terminal degree in Nursing or related field from an institutionally accredited institution with 18 graduate hours
• Active, unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse (RN) in state of residence

School of Criminal Justice:

• Terminal degree in Criminal Justice or related field from an institutionally accredited institution
• Terminal degree in Criminal Justice or related field from an institutionally accredited institution with 18 graduate hours

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to analyze and interpret general periodicals, professional journals, and technical material related to the academic discipline, and University policies and procedures. Ability to prepare reports, business correspondence, and develop syllabi. Ability to effectively present information both written and verbally and respond to questions from learners, Deans, Department Chairs, Academic Advisors, and other University associates.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficiency with Office 365 (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), familiarity with CANVAS or a similar LMS. Able to use Microsoft Teams and Zoom, Internet connectivity supporting streaming audio and videoconferencing meetings.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to apply basic mathematical concepts (such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions) to practical situations. Some mentoring assignments may require additional mathematical skills. A strong understanding of parametric and nonparametric quantitative analyses involving R (RStudio, Jamovi, and derivatives), SPSS, PSSP, GlueViz, Orange, G*Power, JASP, and other packages is desirable.

RESEARCH SKILLS

Familiarity with the following research methodologies is desirable:

Qualitative : Action Research, Evaluative (Programmatic/Policy), Case Study, Grounded Study, Content Analysis, Historical/Narrative, Delphi Method, Holistic Study, Developmental (Trend/Pattern), Phenomenology, Ethnography, Pure Descriptive, and Generic Designs.

Quantitative : Causal-Comparative; Correlational, Linear and Nonlinear Modelling, and Quasi-Experimental Design. Familiarity with 1-cycle and 2-cycle coding, CAQDAS, and grounded theory coding methods is desirable.

Mixed Methods : Explanatory Sequential, Exploratory Sequential, and Parallel/Convergent Design.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism such as formulas, scientific equations, and graphs. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this position, the employee must regularly talk and actively listen. The employee is occasionally required to stand and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include computer technology and written materials which require close vision and color vision. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

As a remote employee, he/she must provide a workspace that is safe and conducive to a business atmosphere where staff can interact with and provide undivided attention, removed from distractions.

What we offer*

CalSouthern generally compensates its Adjunct Faculty on a per learner basis rate for the completion of a course, that takes into consideration a variety of factors including years of overall instruction experience and highest degree earned. The base rate for an Adjunct Faculty can range between $140.00 and $180.00 per learner per course completion.

• Paid sick leave
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Company paid tuition assistance – subject to approval
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Adoption assistance
• Additional ancillary programs may be available

* Some benefits may vary by jurisdiction and are subject to eligibility.

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