When creating an assignment, you can require students to complete a peer review of another student's work.
You can manually assign or have Canvas automatically assign peer reviews for you. You can also allow students to see other students' names in peer reviews or make them anonymous. When anonymous peer reviews are enabled, instructors and Teaching Assistants (TAs) can still view the names of student reviewers in SpeedGrader and in the student submission page. However, if anonymous grading is enabled in SpeedGrader, the names of both students will be hidden in SpeedGrader but not in the student submission page.
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.
This enhanced Peer Review experience is available when the following feature options are enabled:
- Peer Review Allocation and Grading
- Assignment Enhancements Student
- Enhanced Rubrics
- Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader
If a required feature option is unavailable, contact your institution administrator for assistance.
Notes:
- Supported by all assignment types that currently support peer reviews.
- Allocation rules, due dates, and points are additive; instructors who do not configure them will see behavior consistent with the current experience.
- Integrations that use public Canvas APIs for peer review data continue to work as expected. API responses are simplified, so consumers do not need to account for the underlying internal data model or its structure.
- This feature is not supported in the mobile app
- Cross-group reviews are not automatically supported (for example, Group A reviewing Group B ), but they can be set up manually using Allocation Rules.
- Peer review assignment settings cannot be copied or sent using Copy To or Send To.
- CSV import and export are not supported for peer review assignment settings.
- Peer Review settings are not supported in Blueprint courses.
- Peer Review settings are not included in Course Copy.
- Anonymous grading is not available for peer review sub-assignments.
- Peer Reviews are not supported in Grade by Student within SpeedGrader with Performance and Usability Upgrades.
Open Assignments
In Course Navigation, click the Assignments link.
Add Assignment
Click the Add Assignment button.
Add Assignment Details
Add details to the assignment.
Select Submission Type
Click the Submission Type drop-down menu [1], and select Onlinesubmission type [2].
Note: The External Tool and Lucid submission types do not support peer review assignments. Students assigned a peer review for an On Paper or No Submission assignment can see the peer review assignment, but they cannot submit feedback online.
Select Online Entry Options
Select the checkboxes for the types of online entries allowed in the assignment.
Add Group Assignment
Peer reviews can be used with group assignments. If you want to make this a group assignment, click the This is a Group Assignment checkbox.
Note: Cross-group reviews are not automatically supported (for example, Group A reviewing Group B ), but they can be set up manually using Allocation Rules
Require Peer Reviews
When creating an assignment, select the Require Peer Reviews checkbox [1]. Enter the number of required reviews [2], then Enter the number of points per peer review (optional) [3].
You can set the following Advanced Peer Review Configurations:
- Allocations [4]
- Allow Peer Reviews across sections (enabled by default)
- Allow Peer reviews within groups
- Grading [5]
- Use complete/incomplete instead of points for grading
- Anonymity [6]
- Reviewers do not see who they review
- Submission required [7]
- Reviewers must submit their assignment before they can be allocated reviews
Note: By default, peer review allocations automatically pair students based on available submissions rather than by student, unless manually allocated.
Add Due Date
For the assignment, configure the Assign To settings [1] as desired. Then optionally add the assignment Due Date [2] and Peer Review Due Date [3].
Note: Peer reviews continue to be automatically allocated until the Available Until date, if one is set.
Save and Publish Assignment
If you are ready to publish your assignment, click the Save & Publish button [1]. If you want to create a draft of your assignment and publish it later, click the Save button [2].
When your assignment 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 Assignment
View published assignment.
You can also attach a rubric to the assignment for students to fill out when completing peer reviews. To add a rubric to the assignment, click the add Create Rubric button.
