Using PeerMark
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What is PeerMark?
PeerMark is a way for Moodle editors to set up a peer review or peer assessment environment available through Turnitin. The basic stages for student submissions to Turnitin assignments which can exist before or alongside the standard tutor assessment. PeerMark is feedback only from the student reviewers i.e. no grade or numeric mark but reviewers receive a mark for their review.
The basic stages of a PeerMark activity are:
- Staff set up a Turnitin assignment to which students submit their work.
- Staff set up an associated PeerMark, including review questions, setting how many pieces of work each students review, by when, how allocated, whether anonymous &c.
- Students submit their work .Sto the Turnitin assignment.
- Students review others' work.
- Students receive the feedback given by their peers, along with a mark for their own review(s).
- [[CHECK]] Depending on the timing, students can then incorporate this feedback into a final submission
What might PeerMark help with?
- Students understanding of and ability to work with assessment criteria.
- Providing feedback on students' draft work - given sufficient time for amendments before the deadline. (Worried students might take each others' ideas? See below.)
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PeerMark Assignment settings
In the first 'Peermark Assignment' tab you can set the title, of the PeerMark Manager you enter basic information about the activity. Title This will appear for students and should be distinctive and descriptive. Point value (required), This is the marks available for the peer review itself - i.e. not for the reviewed work. Instructions to students, and the dates. Start date, Due date, Post date
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Adding Questions
The 'Peermark questions' PeerMark Questions' tab of the PeerMark Manager 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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Distribution
To In the 'Distribution' tab of the PeerMark Manager you can see all the student accounts on associated with this assignment, go to the 'Distribution' tab. If you can't see all the accounts you are expecting, click out outside of the Peermark manager and go to the Manager to return to your Turnitin assignment page; then click its 'Turnitin Students' tab. From there you can click 'Enrol all students', which will associate all students 'enrolled' in that Moodle course area with the Turnitin Assignment you're working on |
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You can exclude student accounts from the Peermark assessment by clicking the red minus icon, and similarly add excluded students by clicking the green plus icon. If you want to pair students (so that a particular student is allocated the work of another particular student to review, overriding any other distribution settings) you can do so by clicking the blue plus icon and then selecting a student to pair with from the dropdown list. Paired students have to review each other's submissionsare then required to review the work they are allocated.
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Additional Settings
On the 'Peermark Assignment' tab there is a link for additional settings. Here's some explanation of the less obvious ones. '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 set requirements for every part of the review in order to get the available marks, on an all-or-nothing basis. If unticked, tutors can assign and differentiate marks to for each student's review. 'Allow students to view author and reviewer names' If left unticked, you probably need to remind students not to put any identifying information in the title, filename, or body of their work. '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' If checked, a student has to review their own paper before they can review anyone else's. |
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