When managing peer reviews, you can manually control how students are paired for reviewing each other's work using Allocation Rules.
You can create strict rules to require or prevent specific reviewer-to-submission pairings, or flexible rules that prioritize preferred pairings while allowing alternate assignments when needed. Allocation rules are saved and apply every time the Allocation Engine runs. Rules apply on a per-assignment basis and are not shared across assignments.
Peer reviews continue to be allocated until the Available Until date, if one is set.
Notes:
- This enhanced Peer Review experience requires the following feature options to be enabled: Peer Review Allocation and Grading, Assignment Enhancements - Student, Enhanced Rubrics, and Performance and Usability Upgrades for SpeedGrader.
- By default, no action is required from instructors for automatic allocation.
- Instructors can add as many rules as desired.
Open Assignment
To open an existing assignment, click the Assignment name [1]. To create a new assignment, click the AddAssignment button [2].
View Allocate Peer Reviews
To manually allocate peer reviews, click the Allocate Peer Reviews button [1]. Then click the Add Rule button [2].
Note: By default, no action is required from instructors for automatic allocation.
Create Rule
To create an allocation rule for a reviewer:
- Enter the Reviewer Name [1].
- Choose whether the reviewer will review or will not review the specified recipient(s) [2].
- Enter the Recipient Name [3].
- To add additional recipients, click the Add another recipient name link [4].
- Select either a Flexible or Strict rule type [5].
- To save your selection, click the Save button [6].
You can manually manage reviewer pairings using Allocation Rules.
- Strict rules:
- Require or prevent specific reviewer-to-submission pairings.
- If this option is selected and no submission is available, the student will not have a peer submission to review.
- Flexible rules:
- Prioritize preferred pairings while allowing alternate assignments when needed.
- If this option is selected and no submission is available, the student will be assigned another student's submission to review.
Allocation rules are saved and continue to be used every time the Allocation Engine runs. Rules apply on a per-assignment basis and are not shared across assignments.
Note: As an instructor, you can add as many rules as desired.
Create Rule for Recipient of a Review
To create an allocation rule for the recipient of a review:
- Enter the RecipientName [1].
- Choose whether the recipient will be reviewed by or will not be reviewed by the specified recipient(s) [2].
- Enter the ReviewerName [3].
- To add additional reviewers, click the Add another reviewer name link [4].
- Select either a Flexible or Strict rule type [5].
- To save your selection, click the Save button [6]
Create Rule for Reciprocal Review
To create an allocation rule for a reciprocal review:
- Enter the name of Review Partner 1 [1] and Review Partner 2 [2].
- Select either a Flexible or Strict rule type [3].
- To save your selection, click the Save button [4]
View Allocation Rules
In the Allocation Rules tray, you can view, edit and delete your allocation rules.
