Peer Review Feature: How will it work?

Patrick92037065

I have never used the Peer Review feature on Canvas, but I'd like to start. However, I am thinking of an idea and I have no way to test it, because it will require me seeing a bunch of different students' dashboards with submissions. Can anyone help?

I want to assign an assignment due at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday. I want to have my students do a Peer Review for that same assignment due at 8:00 a.m. on Friday. So do I create the assignment, make the assignment due on Wednesday, and then the Peer Review due on Friday?

• Will both dates show up on the students' calendar?
• What if a student doesn't submit the original assignment? Can they peer review? Do they still get to peer review others?
• Is there any other hiccup I am missing?

It makes me nervous that I cannot adequately test this feature.

PennyBarter

Hi Patrick!

Once you've selected "Require peer reviews" in the assignment settings, you should then be able to set up the two separate deadlines, which will look something like this:

If you don't see the option to give a separate "Review due date", your institution might not have enabled this function, or you may need to adjust the course settings. In that case, I recommend contacting your IT department, learning technology team, or similar!

The students will then see the two deadlines separately under To Do on their Canvas dashboard and on the course page:

In my version, there's a (1) after the peer review name - I suspect this is because I set up the assignment to require just 1 peer review from each student.

Once you've set up the assignment, you should also be able to see these deadlines in the course via the student view option.

Does that help you along the way?

Best wishes,

Penny