Unit 6

Creating Peer Reviews in Canvas

Often when students work together to review each other’s work, they can gain valuable insights into a point of view they may not have considered. Setting up Peer Reviews using Google Docs can facilitate this exercise.

Peer Review Setup

1) Set up a new assignment within Canvas, designating the points and due dates.

2) In the Submission drop down list, change to “online”

• Check the “Allow Website URL”; This will allow students to submit their Google Docs URL for review

3) Check the Peer Review box

• Manually vs. Automatically:
• Manually the instructor will select the reviewers for each group
• Automatically will ask how many reviewers you want in each group and randomly select reviewers from the roster

6) Assign Review Date, leave this field blank if you are using the Automatically option. The due date will automatically be assigned.  

7) Remember to assign the Due Date field. 

 Additional Resources on this Subject

 

Student side of Peer Review

1. Students will access their Google Docs account by either clicking Collaborations on the left side menu or going into a Group if assigned.   
   
2. Once they have accessed their Drive account, they will click the blue button to go into Docs, and then the red plus button in the bottom right corner as discussed in the last unit. This will open a new document they can then use for the assignment. 
3. When the document is ready to submit for review, the student will click the Share link, top right of the screen
4. Students will use the same Sharing feature, discussed in the last unit, to share their work back to Canvas. 
5. Make sure to click “Allow anyone with a link to access” and “Comment” to allow commenting  within the document. Otherwise Google will treat the document as private.
6. The share URL link will appear once the document is saved. High light the URL then press the Crtl+C keys. The will copy the link to the background clipboard, to be pasted into the Canvas assignment.
7. Do not close this browser tab; open a second tab to access their Canvas class.
8. In the Canvas Assignment, click the “Submit” button in the top right corner
9. Click into the Website URL box and press “Ctrl+V” to paste the URL address link into this box.
10. In the last step, they will press “Submit” and their assignment is ready for review.