Configure your peerScholar Teamwork and Group Work Activity - Individual Assess
- Daspina Fefekos
This article will walk you through the steps to create a Teamwork and Group Work Activity using the Individual Assess option. This activity type means students will submit their work as a group but each group member will individually assess the designated number of peer groups determined in the activity.
Please note: Students will see what appears to be an annotation tool bar when reviewing their peers who uploaded a file for their submission in peerScholar. Students should NOT attempt to use it to annotate files or provide feedback. The annotation tool bar is not a peerScholar function but a browser feature and any annotations added to documents will be lost. peerScholar is planning to introduce annotation functionality for uploaded files in the future. In the meantime, please inform your students that to annotate files, the file must be downloaded and annotations must be done in the file using a native tool like MS Word (for .docx files) or Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (for PDF) or they will be lost.
Step-by-step guide
Begin by adding the peerScholar link to your LEARN course.
Return to your LEARN course and click the newly added link to begin configuring your Activity.
Select the Teamwork and Group Work - Individual Assess activity type from the list of options.
Enter your activity instructions in the Create Phase then scroll down to the Assess phase.
In the Assess phase you will determine the number of groups each student is expected to review and provide feedback to, add or import additional assessments, enable or disable the self-assessment section or add additional self-assessment types.
After you are done configuring the Assess phase, scroll down to the Reflect phase to determine if your students will be required to assess the feedback they received from peers and if you will allow students to Revise and Resubmit their submissions after reviewing and incorporating the feedback provided. If you do not want to include these elements in your activity, toggle them off and move to the next section.
After you are done configuring the Reflect phase you will see the group member assessment section, this evaluation is for students to assess the members of their own group and the contributions made to the group activity. This section does not have any pre-populated assessments and requires you to add at least one to proceed.
Click continue to move to the group management section of the activity.
This section is where you can import and synchronize your LEARN groups or you can manually create new groups directly within peerScholar.
Once you have selected your LMS groups or created new ones you will be taken to the page to review the groups and their members. On this screen, you can drag and drop students into new groups if they were manually created, otherwise the groups will be based on the corresponding LEARN groups.
If you are satisfied with the groups, click continue to move to the next section of the activity and set your dates.
After setting dates and continuing to the next step you will see the custom peerScholar Grades page where you can configure the remaining elements of your activity.
Need help?
Contact LEARNhelp at learnhelp@uwaterloo.ca or 519-888-4567 ext. 41744 for assistance.
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