Based on your specific goals for the assignment and available time, you can choose from two different rating options when assigning a Peer Review:
- All students can rate (no prerequisites)
- Only students who have mastered NoRedInk's practice topics
- Students must master the topic before the Peer Review, and this is only available to Premium teachers.
In either option, students can begin rating peers immediately after submitting writing in the first step of your Peer Review! However, the rating option you choose determines what criteria students can rate their peers on.
Here's an overview of the two options:
| All students can rate | Only students with mastery | |
| Prerequisites | None | Separate Practice assignment |
| Students can rate peers on... | All criteria | Only criteria they have mastered via Practice, and any criteria without prerequisites |
| Good for... | Ensuring all students can participate right away and rate peers on all criteria you assign | Ensuring students have a baseline of skills so they can give effective feedback to peers |
| Considerations | Students may not be prepared to give effective feedback, especially on more advanced criteria | The assignment may take longer overall since students will need to complete the Practice prerequisite |
Some criterion have no prerequisites while others do. Criteria with prerequisites have at least one associated topic pathway, and some criteria with more complex and nuanced concepts have more than one.
- For example, "Fact vs. Opinion" has one associated topic, while "Wordy vs. Concise" has 6 associated topics that students must master.
If you choose to require students to master skills before rating peers' work, you'll create an additional Practice assignment with the prerequisite topics. This Practice will appear on their dashboard as a separate assignment.
🍎 If a student hasn't achieved mastery via Practice before the Peer Review, they'll only be able to leave comments or answer questions on the criterion without prerequisites!