The Peer Assessment activity is a group assignment submission combined with peer grading. For this activity, peer grading refers to the ability for students to assess the performance/contribution of their peer group, and if enabled, themselves, in relation to a group task.
The group task component of the activity is submitted as a file(s).
The peer grading component consists of each student assessing each of their peers against 3 or more written critieria. In addition, students may be asked to write additional comments per peer or per criteria for each peer to justify their peer grades. Each written criteria translates to a number during the calculation which provides the student's overall grade for the Peer Assessment activity.
The default settings on the Peer Assessment activity have been set in line with Bayes Business School's requirements. The settings can be changed as required.
Before setting up your assignment, ensure that you have your groups set up ready to be attached to the activity. If students are in more than one group on a module, a grouping must also be created in order for the Peer Assessment activity to work. Please see the Manage Groups Guide for more information.
Lisa Baker (LEaD) and Dr Russell Gerrard, when he was Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching at Bayes Business School, discuss the background and development of the Peer Assessment activity which adds a peer contribution element to group assignments on Moodle. This session was recorded as part of the LEaD Light Lunch series in December 2020. The demonstration was recorded in Moodle 3.9 but the functionality of the Peer Assessment activity is the same in Moodle 4.
