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How do I create a peer review discussion?

When creating a discussion, you can require students to comment and provide feedback on another student's work.

Peer reviews can only be created with graded discussions and do not have an anonymous option.

For peer reviews, you can choose to manually assign peer reviews or automatically assign peer reviews. To complete the peer review, students are required to leave at least one comment. If you include a rubric, they are only required to complete the rubric.

Note: To learn how graded discussion and peer review due dates appear in a student's To Do list, view the Peer Review Tips resource document.

00:07: How do I create a peer review discussion?

00:10: In Course Navigation, click the Discussions link.

00:14: To create a new discussion, click the Add Discussion button.

00:19: Create a graded discussion by selecting the Graded checkbox.

00:24: Determine if you are going to manually assign peer reviews or automatically

00:28: assign peer reviews. Select the radio button next to the option

00:32: you prefer.

00:34: If you automatically assign peer reviews, the menu will expand. In

00:38: the Reviews Per Student field, enter the number of reviews each student will

00:42: be required to complete.

00:44: In the Assign Reviews field, use the calendar icon to select a date or manually

00:49: enter a date for when peer reviews will be assigned to students.

00:53: To allow intra-group peer reviews, click the Allow intra-group peer reviews checkbox.

00:59: If you are ready to publish your discussion, click the Save and Publish button.

01:04: If you want to create a draft of your discussion and publish it later, click the Save

01:09: button.

01:10: When your discussion is saved in a draft state, you can return to the page

01:14: and publish it at any time by clicking the Publish button.

01:19: View the published discussion.

01:21: You can also attach a rubric to the discussion for students to fill out,

01:25: when completing peer reviews to add a rubric to the graded discussion, click

01:30: the options icon, then click the add rubric link.

01:34: This guide covered how to create a peer review discussion.

Open Discussions

In Course Navigation, click the Discussions link.

Add Discussion

To create a new discussion, click the Add Discussion button.

Select Graded Option

Create a graded discussion by selecting the Graded checkbox.

Assign Peer Reviews

Determine if you are going to manually assign peer reviews [1] or automatically assign peer reviews [2]. Select the radio button next to the option you prefer.

Automatically Assign Peer Reviews

If you automatically assign peer reviews, the menu will expand. In the Reviews Per Student field [1], enter the number of reviews each student will be required to complete. In the Assign Reviews field [2], use the calendar icon to select a date or manually enter a date for when peer reviews will be assigned to students.

To allow intra-group peer reviews, click the Allow intra-group peer reviews checkbox [3].

Note: If left blank, Canvas will use the discussion due date as the peer review assign date.

Save and Publish

If you are ready to publish your discussion, click the Save and Publish button [1]. If you want to create a draft of your discussion and publish it later, click the Save button [2].

When your discussion is saved in a draft state, you can return to the page and publish it at any time by clicking the Publish button.

View Published Discussion

View the published discussion.

You can also attach a rubric to the discussion for students to fill out when completing peer reviews. To add a rubric to the graded discussion, click the Options icon [1] then click the Add Rubric link [2].

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