Welcome to Turnitin'coms Peer Review

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Welcome to Turnitin.coms Peer Review! This tour
will take you through the basics of
Turnitin.coms Peer Review. The goal of this tour
is to give you a basic understanding of how Peer
Review works, and how to best utilize it as an
effective learning tool in the classroom. Peer
Review allows you to create completely
customizable peer review assignments, composed of
topic and rubric questions of your choosing, that
you can distribute to your students for random
peer evaluation. When completing a peer review
assignment, students will use the criteria
specified by you as a framework to read, consider
critically, and give and receive feedback on work
they and their peers complete in class.
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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 peer review. Your students will 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 your students to evaluate
a paper (or papers) written by their classmates
based on questions chosen by you. The number,
length, and difficulty of these questions is
completely customizable and determined by you
based on the level of your class.
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Peer Review Form This is an example of the form
used to post a peer review. For this particular
review, the instructor has chosen one topic and
one rubric question. Section B allows students
to enter short, descriptive phrases about the
paper being reviewed, 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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Assignments Page Before you can create a peer
review assignment, you must have already created
a paper assignment to which students have made
submissions. When you create a peer review,
papers submitted for a previous paper assignment
are distributed to your students anonymously so
that they can review them based on your specified
criteria. All peer review assignments can be
paired with one paper assignment only, but there
is no limit to the amount of times you can use a
given paper assignment for peer review
assignments.
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Peer Review Assignment Creation This is the first
page of the peer review assignment creation
process. You will be asked to supply a title for
the peer review, and, if you like, provide
additional information about the assignment that
students can access from their class calendar and
assignments pages.
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Step 2 The next step of the peer review
assignment creation process determines the
general criteria for your peer review. First, you
will have to select the paper assignment you want
to pair with the review. Next, you will set the
dates for the review. The start date is the date
that the peer review becomes available to
students. The due date is the deadline for
students to complete their peer reviews.
Finally, the post date is the date when
completed Peer Reviews can be viewed by your
class. Note when creating a peer review
assignment, keep in mind that the due and post
dates must occur at least one day past the start
date. Additionally, the post date may occur on or
later than the due date, but never before it.
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Creating a Peer Review Assignment -- Step 2
(continued) Next, you will need to specify how
papers will be distributed to your students. You
can elect to have a given number of papers
randomly distributed, you can have students pick
a given number of papers to review, or any
combination of the two. For details on how this
works, please refer to the on-screen instructions
by clicking on the button whats this?. You
will need to choose whether you want to create a
customized peer review assignment, or choose an
assignment from our library of created
assignments. If you select custom, you will be
able to write you own topic and rubric questions.
If you select library, you can select from
pre-written assignments developed by a panel of
educators designed to help evaluate writing
skills at both the high school and college level.
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Creating a Peer Review Assignment -- Step 3 Step
3 of creating a peer review assignment will ask
that you select the topic questions students will
use to write short essays about their classmates
papers. There are two options for selecting topic
questions you can write your own, you can select
from our library of questions created by a panel
of educators for Peer Review, or any combination
of the two. Every time you select a question it
will be added to a list of previously selected
questions as shown on the screen to the left.
When you have all the topic questions you want
for a given assignment, you can click on the
next button to take you to step 4 of the
assignment creation process.
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Creating a Peer Review Assignment -- Step 4 Step
4 will ask that you select the rubric questions
for this assignment. Rubric questions are based
on the format Rate, followed by a criterion of
your choosing. Students will respond to rubrics
on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being the worst and
5 the best. These rubrics will then be combined
to form an overall average for any given
paper. Rubrics are chosen in the same manner as
topic questions. You can write them yourself or
choose from our library, and rubrics you choose
will be added to previously selected rubrics as
shown to the left. When you have all the rubrics
you want, you can click on the next button to
go to the final step of the creation process.
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Peer Review Assignment Creation Process -- Step
5 The final step of the process presents a
summary of the review assignment. From this
page you will be able to view the review as a
whole and decide if you would like to add or
update any of the sections. If you are satisfied
with your assignment, clicking on the submit
button will finalize the assignment and send it
to your students. Note You may update a peer
review assignment at any time until a student
submits a review. Once a review has been
submitted, the assignment can no longer be
updated.
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Assignments Page When you are done creating your
peer review assignment, your assignments page
will change to reflect the addition of the new
peer review assignment. If you had set the start
date for the same day, (as in most cases) the
assignment will already have been distributed to
your students. The slides that follow take a
look at what students see when the visit Peer
Review to complete a review assignment for the
first time.
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Student Peer Review When your students first come
to their peer review homepage to review papers,
this is what they will see. As an instructor, you
also have access to a peer review homepage, and
it is almost identical to the one shown here. By
reading the text above the papers for review,
students will be able to see that they must each
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 among the remaining papers. Writing a
review is as easy as clicking on the pencil icon
under the post review column.
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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. Students may edit
any given peer review until the due date for the
peer review assignment has passed. For this
particular assignment, students are required to
write two reviews one that is assigned, and one
they can choose. If students have written reviews
for the assigned paper(s) and must still write
additional reviews, they can choose those reviews
from the remaining pool of papers. When a
student has written the required number of
reviews for a given assignment, the pencil icons
will disappear.
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The final stage of any peer review assignment
occurs after the post date the date when all
the reviews written by your class become
available to read. Clicking on the icon under
read will take your students 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 students the average score
that paper received, and the final column
indicates the grade (if any) you have assigned to
the paper. Note You 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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The reviews page shows a detailed listing of all
the reviews submitted for a given paper. Both
students and instructors may access individual
reviews from this page. At the top of the page
is a summary of the rubric scores for this paper.
In the reviews section beneath is a summary of
all the reviews submitted for this
paper. Clicking on the icon in the reviews
column will display an entire review as shown
earlier in the presentation.
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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!