What are Peer Reviews?
NoRedInk’s Peer Reviews match students anonymously and guide them to share structured and actionable feedback. Students will work through three steps in the writing process: Write, Rate Peers, and Revise. Peer Review is great for feedback skills and for targeted revision of specific essay components.
Assigning a Peer Review
When creating a Peer Review, you will add your prompt and can choose from several essay types, which will impact the students' writing experience. The grading rubric will adjust based on the essay component you select, and you'll be able to specify the criteria you'd like students to focus on when rating their peers.
Ready to assign? You can check out this article to learn how to create a Peer Review!
💡 Premium teachers can choose to require mastery in the Practice topics associated with each criteria, enabling students to provide more robust and thoughtful feedback. Learn more here!
Student Experience
When starting a Peer Review assignment, the students will be presented with the steps they'll take from start to finish. Students will submit their writing for peers to rate. Next, students will be matched up with peers to rate and receive anonymous feedback. NoRedInk guides students through the feedback process by providing tips on writing meaningful feedback.
When students finish rating what's required, they move to the final step of their Peer Review, where they will review the feedback left by their peers and revise their writing. You can find out more in our article about the student experience of writing a Peer Review!
💡 Since the rating step works best when students begin at the same time, we recommend students write their drafts in advance so that it's ready to copy and paste into Step 1.
Grading a Peer Review
Once your students have submitted their work, you'll be able to review the students' efforts in the revision process by comparing drafts and viewing goals, ratings, and comments received and given.
Once you're done reviewing student submissions, return to your Submissions & Grades tab to post the queued grades and requests for additional revision. Check out this article to learn more about viewing and grading a Peer Review!