Ultra - Creating a Peer Review Assignment

This article will show you how to create and deploy a peer review assignments in your Blackboard Ultra course. Peer assessment is a common resource that allows students to review their peers’ work through criteria-based evaluation. It’s simple for instructors and students to use.

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Please refer to Peer Review for Qualitative Peer Assessments for more information.

Note: When including peer reviews in an assignment, student names will not appear on any submissions or reviews in student view. However, the instructor will still be able to see student names.

1. Within the assignment window, select the gear icon to the right of “Assignment Settings”:

2. Scroll to the Grading & Submissions section of the Assignment Settings panel. Under “Evaluation options”, click the checkbox next to “Peer review”. Note: this selection will automatically set the submissions to one attempt per student. This setting cannot be adjusted:

3. Click the “Select peer settings” link that appears under “Peer review”:

4. Select the number of reviewers you would like to be assigned to each student’s submission. Note: Reviewers will be assigned automatically and randomly. Late submissions will be accepted and may be reviewed if unassigned reviewers remain:

5. Set separate due dates for the initial assessment submission and the peer review. The due date for the peer review must come after the due date for the initial assessment submission:

6. Click “Save” at the bottom to save the peer review settings:

7. Click “Save” again at the bottom of the Assignment Settings panel to apply the changes to the assignment:

8. To view students’ feedback to each other, navigate to the "Submissions" tab in the assignment window:

9. Make selections from the “Peer Reviews” column to open the submission window and view student feedback: