Using PeerMark
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What is PeerMark?
PeerMark is a peer review or peer assessment environment available through Turnitin. The basic stages are:
- Staff set up a Turnitin assignment to which students submit their work.
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Setting up a new PeerMark Assignment
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In the first 'Peermark Assignment' tab you can set the title, Point value (required), Instructions to students, and the dates.
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Adding Questions
'Peermark questions' allows you create the questions you want the peer reviewers to answer. To add a question, click 'Add question' |
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Enter your question text, the question type. There are two types of question you can use; |
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For a 'Free response' question, enter the minimum answer length (this counts words). |
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For a 'Scale' question, enter the scale size and the lowest and highest values |
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You can also use libraries to manage your Peermark questions. Clicking on Library Settings allows you to create and delete libraries, and to save and retrieve questions from those libraries. There is also a 'Sample Library' which you can add pre-made questions from. |
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Short ped considerations |
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On the 'Peermark Assignment' tab there is a link for additional settings. 'Award full points if review is written' If ticked this means tutors will not be able to mark the reviews and a student will need to meet the criteria for every part of the review in order to get the marks. If unticked, tutors can assign marks to each student's review. 'Paper(s) automatically distributed by Peermark" ' This sets the number of randomly allocated papers each student has to review. "'Papers(s) selected by the student" ' This sets the number of papers a student can choose to review. Students can review a combination of allocated and selected papers. "'Require self-review" means that ' If checked, a student has to review their own paper before they can review anyone elseselse's. |
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Accessing Peermark reviews
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