peerScholar

Facilitate student peer assessments with peerScholar, an online peer review tool is ideal for incorporating peer assessment activities into your class, offering customizations in each step of the peer assignment to fit your teaching goals.

peerScholar enables you to set up a wide range of peer graded assignments in your courses where students activities within each assignment phase can be easily turned on and off.

This tool has three phases:

  1. Students submit work
  2. Students evaluate peer work and provide feedback
  3. Students reflect on outcomes

peerScholar is unique among peer review tools for its incorporation of a reflect and revise phase that allows students to review and reflect on the peer feedback provided, before revising their essay for resubmission. Instructors can also download reports of the assessments and evaluations completed in each step of the assignment process.


Features

peerScholar enables you to set up a wide range of peer graded assignments in your courses. It offers a high level of customization throughout each step of the peer assessment.

  • You can easily access peerScholar through Canvas
  • It is completely free to use
  • There are many assignment templates from the peerScholar library
  • Assignments can easily be customized by turning on/off certain phases
  • Multiple options for generating grade reports
  • Accepts assignment submissions in a variety of file formats
  • Option for anonymous evaluations to invite honest feedback
  • Assignments can easily be customized by turning on/off certain phases
  • You can preview different phases of the assignment before making it available to students

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