Lesson 1 - Working with Self and Peer Review Assessments

Introduction
Sandi knows that allowing students to review and assess their peers assignments facilitates collaboration and student engagement in the learning process, so she decides to use the new Self and Peer Assessment functionality provided by Blackboard. She creates assignments that students submit for peer review. Also, she creates assessment criteria that students will use to grade their peers. She also allows each student to self-evaluate. After all students have graded their peers, she sends the results to the grade center, so the scores can be included in the total grade calculations. 

At the end of the semester, she exports all the self and peer assessments and imports them in her next semester course.

Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to: Learning Activities
To create a Self and Peer Assessment:
  1. Please click the Creating a Self and Peer Assessment tutorial created by Blackboard.
  2. Read the Creating a Self and Peer Assessment documentation written by Blackboard.
  3. Read the Completing an Assessment and Viewing and Sending Results to the Grade Center documentation written in the Blackboard Instructor Manual and modified to fit our needs.
  4. In this workshop course, go to Assignments and click View/Complete Assessment to complete the Peer Review Assignment as a student. Please evaluate yourself and three colleagues.
  5. After you complete the self and peer assessment in this workshop course, go to your training course and do the following:
    1. Create a self and peer assessment in the Assignments section.
    2. Create assessment criteria for each item.
    3. Have at least two of your colleagues complete the assessment and evaluate two other colleagues.
      • IMPORTANT: Please make sure you set up the Submission and Evaluation dates within the date limits of this workshop. Otherwise, you will not be able to see the results.
    4. Monitor all submissions and evaluations by clicking the Self and Peer Assessments link in the Control Panel. You have the option to view Submissions, Evaluations, and/or Results. However, results have not been incorporated in the grade center calculations until you send them to the grade center.
    5. Send the results to the Grade Center by clicking Results and then the Send Results to Grade Center button. If you go to the Grade Center, you will see a column for the Self and Peer Assessment with scores for each student. 
    6. Export your assessment and import it back to your training course.
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  6. Post any comments or questions in the Self and Peer Assessments online discussion located in the Discussion Board area of this workshop.

Conclusion
 In this lesson, you learned how to create and work with a self and peer assessment. You learned also how the results are sent to the grade center to be included in the total grade calculations. In the next unit, you will learn how to work with the Grade Center, previously called Gradebook.