Self and Peer Assessment

Overview
Self and Peer Assessments allow your students to critique each others work.

Creating a Self and Peer Assessment

1. Go to the correct course.
2. Select Control Panel in the course menu on the left.
3. Under Content Areas select the area where you wish to place the assessment.
4. Select the drop down menu to the right and choose Self and Peer Assessment.
5. Select Go.
6. Choose whether you want to create a new assignment, or import an old one. If this is your first time using the tool, you should leave this set to New.
7. Provide a Name for the assessment.
8. Provide any general instructions for the assessment. You will provide more detailed ones later.
9. Set your Submission Dates. Please be aware that once the submission window closes you cannot extend these dates.
10. Set your Evaluation Dates. Please note that once the evaluation window closes you cannot extend these dates.
11. Select whether or not you want to Allow Anonymous Evaluation. If set to Yes users will not know who they are evaluating, or who is evaluating them. If set to No this information will be visible.
12. Decide if you want to Allow Self Evaluation. This setting allows users to critique their own work.
13. If you want the original submitter (not the evaluator) to see what their evaluators said, set Show Evaluation Results to Submitter to Yes.
14. Decide how many submissions each user should evaluate (not including any self evaluations) and enter it in Number of Submissions to Evaluate. Note that if you are only doing self evaluation, this number should be 0.
15. If you want the students to be able to see the assessment, make sure that Make the assessment available is set to Yes. Please note that none of the details of the assessment will be visible except during the submission and evaluation periods.
16. If you wish to set date restrictions, do so under Choose Date Restrictions. Please note that unless the assessment is made available above, the students will never see it. Also, as mentioned above, students will only be able to see relevant information during the submission or evaluation periods, so it is generally not necessary to set date restrictions.
17. Select Submit.
18. Select OK.

Once you have set up the basic assessment, you must add Questions for student responses to generate the initial submission. The students will be evaluated based upon their answers to these questions.

1. Select the correct course.
2. Select Control Panel in the course menu on the left.
3. Under Content Areas select the area where you placed the assessment.
4. Select Modify to the right of the assessment to which you wish to add questions.
5. Select Assessment Canvas.
6. Select the + Question button.
7. Enter the Question to which you want your students to respond.
8. Provide a Model Response for your students if you wish. If you want the students to see this model response, make sure Available is set to Yes.
9. Select Submit.
10. Select OK.
11. Repeat these steps to add any additional questions.

Once you have added questions to which users can submit answers, you then need to set up evaluation criteria for students to evaluate those answers.

1. Select the correct course.
2. Select Control Panel in the course menu on the left.
3. Under Content Areas select the area where you placed the assessment.
4. Select Modify to the right of the assessment to which you wish to add questions.
5. Select Assessment Canvas.
6. Select Criteria to the right of the question.
7. Select +Criteria.
8. Provide the evaluation criteria in the Criteria box. This is what the evaluators will use as a reference when evaluating submissions.
9. Set the Points Possible for the criteria. The total points possible on all criteria for the assessment will be the points possible for the assessment.
10. Decide whether you want evaluators to be able to give either full or no credit, or whether you would prefer to allow partial credit, then select the corresponding button next to Assign Points.
11. Decide if you want the original submitter to see the feedback provided by the evaluator on this particular criteria and set Allow Feedback to User accordingly.
12. Select Submit.
13. Select OK.
14. Repeat these steps until all criteria are set up.

Word Count Criteria are much like standard criteria, but they check the word count on a submission to make sure it meets specific requirements.

1. Select the correct course.
2. Select Control Panel in the course menu on the left.
3. Under Content Areas select the area where you placed the assessment.
4. Select Modify to the right of the assessment to which you wish to add questions.
5. Select Assessment Canvas.
6. Select Criteria to the right of the question.
7. Select +Word Count Criteria.
8. Change the question in the Criteria box as needed, it will default to Does the submission meet the word count recommendation?.
9. Set the Points Possible for the criteria. The total points possible on all criteria for the assessment will be the points possible for the assessment.
10. Enter the Recommended Word Count.
11. Enter how far above or bellow the word count is acceptable. Please note that the system appears to add one word to the user's submission word count, so it is important to account for this in this space.
12. Select Submit.
13. Select OK.
14. Repeat for any other Word Count Criteria needed.

As the instructor, you can view all student submissions and evaluations in the Control Panel.

1. Select the correct course.
2. Select Control Panel in the course menu on the left.
3. Under Course Tools select Self and Peer Assessment.
4. Select the Assessment for which you wish to view details.
5. To view all student submissions, select Submissions, to view all evaluations, select Evaluations. The Results menu allows you to view detailed information on evaluator responses, includes the ability to transfer the evaluation scores to the Grade Center, and also allows a mass download of submissions and evaluations.
   • To transfer all evaluation scores to the Grade Center select Send Results to Grade Center. This should be done after the end of the evaluation period.

Once they have completed the submission or evaluation for the assessment, nothing will change under My Grades. Once they have submitted their answers or evaluations, they will be marked as Completed next to the question or criteria when they return to the assignment. Since this information will become unavailable to them after the end of the submission or evaluation period, it is important that they check immediately upon submission to make sure their data was properly submitted.

Questions? E-mail help@campus.fsu.edu or call (850) 644-8004.