Peer Assessment activity guide

1. Turn Edit mode on.
2. Open the relevant section. Select the plus symbol at the end of the section, select Activity or resource.
   • To add the activity between existing content, hover your mouse until the plus symbol displays. Select Activity or resource.
3. The Activity chooser opens. Select Peer Assessment.
4. In the General settings, write a meaningful Peer Assessment name. This is the name that will be displayed on the module page and also in the gradebook.
5. In Description, provide clear instructions to your students about the assignment. Consider adding a link to the student educational technology guidance.
6. Check Display Description on Course Page to display the description beneath the assignment activity on the module page. If unchecked, the Description will only displayed when to the assignment is selected.

Expand the Grade section, if required.

1. Grade category determines where your assignment will sit within the grades area. To use this, you will first need to set up the categories in the Grader Report. You can find more information on this in our Grader Report guide.
2. Grade to pass determines the minimum grade required to pass.  The value is used in activity and module completion, and in the gradebook, where pass grades are highlighted in green and fail grades in red.

Expand the Peer assessment settings section. Several options are available.

1. Allow submissions from: Enter the date and time that students can submit from. Students will not be able to submit before the date and time entered. Deselect the tick box to allow students to submit right away.
2. Due date: Set the due date and time for the assignment. Deselect the the tick box if you do not wish to apply a due date to the peer assessment.
3. Allow late submissions: If changed to Yes, submissions will be allowed after the due date. Late submissions will be indicated on the peer assessment activity summary. Once the group grade has been saved and the final grades calculated, the students' submissions can no longer be edited by students. The Course Office can use the Grade Override feature to amend individual peer grades if required. See the Grade Peer Assessment guide for details of the Grade Override feature.
4. Lock editing: If changed to Yes, students cannot change their submission or peer grades after they have made their submission. Lecturers can unlock editing for individual students while submissions are still allowed.
5. Maximum number of uploaded files: Set the maximum number of files that each student will be allowed to upload.
6. Allow students to self-grade along with peers: The default setting is No according to the requirements of Bayes Business School. If changed to Yes, students will be able to give themselves a peer grade and feedback, along with the other members of their group. If enabled, a student's self-grade will be counted towards their, and their overall groups' peer grade averages.

Expand the Calculator settings section. Several options are available.

The default Calculator settings are set according to the requirements of Bayes Business School.

1. The default Calculator setting is Rebased PA which is used for all Bayes Business School peer assessment activities. Select the arrow next to Rebased PA to select an alternative calculator if required.
2. Truncated (Rebased only) - Truncation is switched off by default. If changed to Yes, peer marks can be adjusted according to a truncation zone.
   • If the Calculator setting has been changed to Web PA in step 1, the Peer Assessment weighting field will be displayed. The default setting is 0%. Select a percentage between 1 and 100 to indicate the percentage of the group's total mark which should be peer assessed. 
3. Penalty for non-submission of marks: The default setting of 0% does not apply a penalty to students who have not assessed their peers. Select a percentage between 1 and 100 to apply a percentage deduction to students who have not assessed their peers. 

Expand the Assessment criteria settings section. Several options are available, including some settings which are revealed only when other settings are selected.

The default Assessment criteria settings are set according to the requirements of Bayes Business School.

1. Peer grades visibility: The default setting is Hidden from students, where students do not see their peer grades at all. Select the arrow next to Hidden from students to reveal other options:
   • Visible anonymous: allow students to see their peer scores but not who gave each score.
   • Visible with usernames: allow students to see their peer scores and who gave each score.
     • If either Visible anonymous or Visible with usernames is selected, an additional field, Display peer grade totals is displayed with a default setting of No. If this setting is changed to Yes, students will be shown the total of their peer grades as a percentage for each criterion.
2. The default setting for Require justification is hidden from students, meaning that student comments will only be visible to lecturers and not to the students' peers. Select the arrow next to Hidden from students to reveal other options:
   • Disabled: Students are not required to provide any comments to justify the grades they have given to their peers.
   • Visible anonymous: Student comments will be visible to their peers but with no names identified.
   • Visible with usernames: Student comments will be visible to their peers, and they will also see the identities of the students who left the feedback.
   • When any of the options except Disabled are selected, two additional fields are displayed:
     • Justification type: The default setting is Peer. Students are required to provide one comment to justify the grades given for each of their peers. If required, select the arrow next to Peer to change the Justification type to Criteria. This option requires the students to provide one comment per criteria for each of their peers.
     • Justification character limit: The default setting for the number of characters that can be entered into the justification fields is 280. This value can be set to 0 to remove the limit.
3. Each Peer Assessment activity has three critieria by default. It is possible to add additional criteria if required. Each of the three default criteria has set wording according to the requirements of Bayes Business School. Each criteria has two settings: Criteria X description and Criteria X scoring type. If required, select the text box to amend the wording of each criteria description or the rating options that are listed underneath the description:
   • The Critieria description is the first line of the text box.
   • Each criteria has four rating options which are listed under the criteria description, and which start with the highest scoring criteria first.  Each rating option translates to a number during the calculation which provides each student's overall grade for the Peer Assessment activity.
4. Each of the default criteria have been set to Peerwork scoring type. In order for the activity to work correctly, this setting should not be changed.

If required, select Add 1 more criteria at the bottom of the assessment criteria settings section to add an additional criteria and repeat to add further additional criteria. The text box will be blank for any additional criteria. For each new criteria:

1. Select the text box in Criteria descripton and add the text for each additional criteria using the same format as the three default criteria. 
2. Select the arrow next to Bad/Medium/Good in scoring type for each new criteria and select Peerwork in order for the activity to work correctly.

Grouping. A Grouping is required if students are in more than one group on the module or to restrict the peer assessment to certain groups. Please see the Manage Groups guide for more information on setting up groupings.

• If a Grouping is required, select the select the relevant grouping from the dropdown menu.

1. Availability is set to Show on module page. The Peer Assessment will be shown on the module page and will be visible to students. Select the arrow next to Show on module page to select an alternative setting:
   • Hide from students hides the Peer Assessment from students.
   • Make available but not shown on the module page. This setting makes the peer assessment available to students but a separate link to the activity must be provided for the students as the activity will not be shown on the module page.
2. ID number, Force language and Include in module content download do not need to be changed.
3. Group mode is not required for the Peer Assessment activity and can remain as the default setting No groups.

You can use the Restrict access settings to control the availability of content and activities based on one or more conditions, including date and group. 

Completion conditions allows you to set completion criteria for a specific activity or resource.

Activities or resources with a completion criteria display a circle next to them in the Module index. The circle turns green (and is filled in) when the student meets the criteria. On the main module page, a tick and the word "done" appears against the item when the student meets the criteria. This helps students manage their progress on a module and staff can easily review student engagement and progress against key activities.

You can combine Restrict access and Activity completion to provide structured pathways through your module.

Apply the settings

1. Open the activity or resource.
2. Select Settings from the contextual navigation menu. This opens the activity settings.
3. Change the settings required.
4. Select Save and display to save any changes made.

View Activity restrictions on module page

If you have applied activity restrictions to an activity or resource, the restriction will be visible to you on the main module page.

When edit mode is on, you will be able to edit the restriction by selecting Edit restrictions.

View Completion condition on module page

You can view the completion condition on an activity or resource from the main module page by opening the dropdown menu next to Competion.

When edit mode is on, you will be able to edit the completion condition by selecting Edit.

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