BRIAN KLAAS: Hi there. This is Brian Klaas. And in this video, I'm going to take you on a tour of the new peer assessment, a new version of the peer assessment tool. This video is going to focus on setting up peer assessments, working with rubrics, and a separate video will focus on working in student data. 

But here we are on the main page for the peer assessment tool, and this looks a lot like the old peer assessment tool in this regard, believe it or not. You have information about when the peer assessment opens and is due. You've got an action here for deleting a peer assessment. And if you want to drill down into the peer assessment and do other work, you would click on the link to the peer assessment here. 

Now, note that compared to the old version of the peer assessment tool, there's less options on this page because a lot of the options have been moved inside of the actual peer assessment itself rather than being listed on this main page. But let's start kind of at the very beginning, and let's start by creating a peer assessment. 

So if you want to create a peer assessment, you have two options. You can either create a brand new peer assessment-- blank, nothing there-- or you can copy a peer assessment from a class that you teach or otherwise have access to, say, as a TA. So let's say you have a peer assessment in one of your other courses. It works really well. 

And you say, I want to use that peer assessment in this course as well. You can click on copy peer assessment. It's going to give you a dropdown that's going to list all the different classes that are available to you to copy from. If you want to make a duplicate of a peer assessment in the same class, you can do that, too, by using this copy existing peer assessment tool. 

But let's focus on creating a new peer assessment from scratch. So I'm going to go ahead and say create new peer assessment, and it's going to bring me to the setup tab for the peer assessment. So the new peer assessment tool works by organizing activity into three main tabs-- setup, rubric, and student activity. And in this video, we're looking at the setup and rubric tabs. 

So we'll start by giving our peer assessment a title, and then you need to give an open and close date or the date that the peer assessment is open to the student and the date the assessment is due by. Now, it's important to note that the opening time needs to be at least an hour in the future. This is because when we create the assignments from student to student, that takes time to do. 

So you can't say, oh, I want my peer assessment to open in 10 minutes. There's at least a one hour buffer from the current time before your peer assessment can open to students, which then ensures that the assignment from one student or another are able to be made. 

And then, you need to say what kind of assessment it's going to be. And in this case, there are five options for you, randomly assigned. Students assess their group members, everybody in the class evaluates a single group of students, and then group assesses other group where you have groups assessing each other's work, and finally, a manual assignment. 

And manual assignment is really for those situations where you know that Jasmine needs to evaluate Henry, and Bill needs to evaluate Jane, where you have a very clear and specific knowledge of who is supposed to evaluate who in these peer assessments. But I'm going to focus here on this one on randomly assigned, on a randomly assigned peer assessment. 

So when I select randomly assigned, I'm then given another option here. I want to know how many assessment students are going to do. And I'll say, in my class, everybody is going to do three assessments. You can put a number in there right up to the maximum number of students in the class, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend that. 

You have a couple of options around letting students see the name of the people that they're assessing, and in the results, showing students the name of the people who assessed them you can enable those. Those are disabled by default so there's more anonymity in the peer assessment here. I can then link to a dropbox, which you would definitely want to do. This is a final paper assessment. 

So I'm going to pick an item, a dropbox here, from my class, and it's going to link to that. And that means when I link to a dropbox that when the students do the peer assessments, they'll be able to access the file of the person they are currently assessing. Now, you can also link the peer assessment to an event on the course schedule, although most people tend to do that from the schedule builder side of things, or list this particular peer assessment on a page builder page, or multiple page builder pages if you want. 

And then finally, there's a couple of options that have to do with the rubric and sort of filling out that rubric for each assessment. There's an option for faculty or TAs to have an instructor comments row on each rubric. So students can evaluate each other, but then faculty can go in and then type, type, type, and add more comments, and there's an option to allow students to upload a marked up file as part of their feedback. 

So let's say you are doing a final paper assessment, and you want students to use comments in a tool like Word to add comments in line in the document. Well, enabling this checkbox here enables those same students to then upload that file so that when the students who are assessed see their results, they're able to grab that file and see all those comments that people made. 

So that's the basic setup. I'm going to continue on. I'll come back in a moment and show you another option type here in just a second, but I'm going to save this because this is how I want things to be. I'm going to continue on to the rubric itself. So the rubric editor works exactly like the rubric editor that's been in the gradebook since the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year. 

It's fairly straightforward. You have criteria in a series of rows. You have levels of quality in the columns there, and then you can assign point values and put whatever you want in how each individual quality level or performance level matches a set of criteria or doesn't meet it in the case of poor work. 

And you also have the option to, in the rubric setup, copy an existing rubric. So if you're using rubrics in your other classes, you can do that as well. So I could say copy existing rubric. It gives me a list of all the classes to which I have access where there are rubrics, and I can see these rubrics. I can take a look at them. 

Or I can just say, I know I want to use this rubric from this class, so I'm going to go ahead and use it. And we'll copy that rubric into the rubric tool here. And then I can continue to edit, change it-- it's not going to affect the original source version of my rubric. 

There are also example rubrics that were created by the team in the Center for Teaching and Learning, the instructional design team. You can see those and use those if you want as well. And when I'm done, I can go ahead and say save changes, and that's it. I have set up my peer assessment. 

So my final paper assessment is here on the main listing. I see the dates that it's available. I can go and I can keep tweaking information in the setup or the rubric all the way until the time that the peer assessment opens to students. 

So now, I'm going to create another peer assessment just so you can see what a group peer assessment might look like. So in this case, I'm going to select the students assess their group members type of a rubric here because what I want to do is make sure that students are giving good feedback to each other about their group projects, their group work, and I can see how students evaluated each other as well. 

So when you select a group-based peer assessment, the groups that are set up in the course groups tool will be used, so you have to have groups set up in the course groups tool in order to use them in a group based assessment. You can't just create the groups in here. You've got to have them set up in the course groups tool first. 

And because I want all the different groups in my class to evaluate their group members, I'm just going to say select all. Now, if I didn't want to include a group I could deselect one of them but, in this case, I do want to make sure that all the groups evaluate their group members. Everything else is the same in the setup for this peer assessment as well. 

I can link things to a dropbox and so on. Generally with something like group members evaluate their team members, you wouldn't associate with a dropbox. But again, that's up to you and how you want to do things. Then, I can save and continue on to the rubric itself, and then I know that there is an example rubric in here for the analytic group project process that I want to use. 

I'm just going to go ahead and use this. And I'm done, right? I've got my nice rubric here that helps me evaluate my work of my peers. I'll save that, and my peer assessment is complete. Now, one quick thing about the student activity tab. Before a peer assessment opens, it's going to be empty. You're not going to see the student names there. 

You're not going to see anything here until the individual students have been assigned to each other behind the scenes and the peer assessment opens to the students. So that's a basic overview of creating peer assessments, working with the setup tool, working with the rubric tool. It's all very fast and relatively intuitive, we hope. But if you do have questions, you can always reach out to CTL Help, and they'll gladly answer them.