Welcome to Turnitin.coms Peer Review

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Welcome to Turnitin.coms Peer Review! This
introductory tour will take you through our Peer
Review system and explain the steps you need to
get started. Peer Review allows you to
anonymously read and review the papers from other
students in your class. With Peer Review, you
will be able to receive feedback on your papers
from your instructor and classmates, based on
criteria chosen by your instructor. The pages
that follow should give you a good idea what to
expect when you start using Peer Review as a
student. For faculty instructions, please refer
to the faculty version of our Peer Review tour.
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Whats a Peer Review? To the left is an example
of the end product of the peer review process a
finished review. You will likely receive one or
more reviews like this for every peer review
assignment your class completes. The top section
consists of a series of questions rated on a
scale of 0 to 5, called rubric questions. The
second section consists of topic questions, which
must be answered in essay form. These questions
typically ask you to evaluate a paper (or papers)
written by one of your classmates based on
questions chosen by your instructor. The number,
length, and difficulty of these questions are
completely customizable and determined by your
instructor based on the current level of you
class.
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Peer Review Form This is an example of the form
used to post a review like the one shown on the
previous page. For this particular review, the
instructor has chosen one topic and one rubric
question. Additionally, section B allows you to
enter short, descriptive phrases about a paper
you a reviewing, which helps us create quick
reference points about a given review when many
reviews are displayed next to each other in list
form.
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Peer Review Overview When your instructor creates
a peer review assignment, he or she selects a
given set of papers for your class to review (for
example, papers from assignment 7.). Then, your
instructor decides how many papers each student
will get to review. By reading the text above the
papers for review, we can see that, for this
assignment, each student must review 2 papers.
The first paper has been assigned it is at the
top and highlighted in blue. The second paper,
however, can be chosen from the remaining papers.
Writing a review is as easy as clicking on the
pencil icon under the post review column.When
you have written the assigned number of reviews
for any given assignment, the pencil icons will
disappear.
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This example shows the same page as before,
except that now a review has been posted for the
paper Independence or Interdependence, as
indicated by the edit icon where the pencil
used to be. You may edit any given review until
the due date for the peer review assignment has
passed. According to the text above the papers,
however, there is still one review left to
complete for this assignment. If no additional
papers have been assigned to you for review (as
indicated by the blue highlight on the previous
page) you may select a paper to review from the
remaining papers.
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This page shows the peer review screen after all
reviews for a given assignment have been
completed. The status box states that ALL
reviews have been completed since two reviews
were assigned. Note that each time a student
completes a review, it moves to the top of the
list. Also notice that once the assigned number
of reviews have been completed, the pencil icons
disappear from the post review column. From
this point until the due date, you may only edit
your reviews. You may not post more total
reviews than those assigned by your instructor.
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The final stage of the peer review process occurs
after the post date the date, specified by your
instructor, when all the reviews written by your
class are made available for you to read.
Clicking on the icon in the read column will
take you to another page that displays all the
reviews posted for a given paper. The reviews
column to the right indicates the total number of
reviews submitted the avg column tells you the
average score, based on selected rubrics, that
paper received, and the final column indicates
the grade assigned to the paper by your
instructor. Note Your instructor may elect to
turn the grading option off, or not grade papers
through Peer Review. If this is the case, the
grade column will not appear.
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When you click on the read reviews icon for any
paper on the previous page, you will come to a
screen that resembles the one to the left. The
rubric averages section displays the average
score for each rubric question. The total
average score for all combined rubrics is also
displayed at the bottom, in white. The reviews
section shows a list of the all the reviews
submitted for a given paper. If your instructor
has submitted his or her own review, it will be
at the top and highlighted in blue. The remaining
student reviews are listed below. You can read
the contents of any review by clicking the peer
review icon in the full review column.
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This is a copy of the actual review for the paper
The History of Interdependence Day. The top
section shows the rubric results given this paper
by the reviewing student. Beneath the list of
rubric questions is the average score for all the
rubrics. The second section shows the essay
responses for the specified topic questions.
Responses will often refer to specific passages
in the reviewed paper if you want to read the
paper at the same time you are reading the
review, you can click on the papers title at the
top at any review to open a new window containing
the text of the paper.
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Now that we have seen how Peer Review works, we
can take a look at how it integrates into the
rest of Turnitin.com. Your class portfolio page
will now not only show the results of papers you
have submitted for plagiarism screening, but also
list reviews you have submitted for a given
class. Additionally, you will be able to access
any reviews written by other members of your
class for your papers. In the example to the
left, 3 reviews have been written for the paper
Oh, Interdependence Day. Clicking on read in
the reviews column opens a page displaying all
the current reviews for this paper.
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Thanks for taking the time to learn the basics of
Peer Review. The goal of this presentation was to
help you get up and running quickly there are
many advanced functions not touched upon here
that are explained in greater depth online and in
our user manuals. If you experience any
difficulties with Peer Review and cant find the
answers here or at our website, our helpdesk
(helpdesk_at_turnitin.com) is available 24 hours to
help you with any problems. Again, thanks for
supporting us in the ongoing fight against
digital plagiarism. Good luck!