Getting feedback from different readers is a great way for students to get a different perspective on their writing.
In this video, let’s check out how to set up Peer Reviews on Scribo Writing.
On the Scribo Writing homepage go to the activity where you would like to set up peer review, click the three dots icon, then select Peer Review.
Peer Review is a uniquely helpful feature that gives your students an opportunity to read their classmates’ work and give feedback. This allows students to get a fresh set of eyes on their writing and puts them in the position of a reader.
First, switch on peer review for this activity. You can then select a due date when your students should submit their reviews.
You can choose to make peer reviews anonymous if you want your students to focus the feedback and not on the reviewer.
Turning on Students should leave review comments ensures that students will only complete their reviews if they left feedback.
You can give students instructions on how to write a review,
or you can click Sample review instructions to choose from a list of instructions provided by Scribo. Simply click on a question and it will be added to your instructions.
Lastly, you can set the student pairs that will review each other's work. By default, Scribo already sets up the pairs at random. However, you may click edit should you want to change the pairs.
If you’re satisfied with all the settings, click save and your students can begin with their review.
Once peer review has been set up for an activity, your students will see a peer review section on the Scribo Writing homepage. To begin, students must click peer review. They will then see their assigned classmate’s work.
On the right, they will see your review instructions and the space where they may leave feedback. When they’re done, they may click finish to submit their review.
As a teacher you can monitor the progress of your students’ reviews by clicking progress.
Here you will see an overview of this activity’s peer review. Up top you have a search bar for student names, a set of filters based on each review’s progress status, and a couple of useful functions to the right.
You can click refresh data to update this page with the most recent peer review data available.
If you want to remind your class to accomplish their reviews you can click here to send an email reminder to the whole class. You may also use the individual reminder button if you would like to send individual reminders instead.
Below you can check who among your students have already left comments, and who among them have not. Hovering over the speech bubble icon shows you a preview of the comments a student wrote.
Lastly, you may view all the feedback your students gave by clicking report.
Here you will see all peer review comments.
You can also go to the class list to check the comments written by each individual student.
There you go! Peer review helps students learn from each other as they hone their writing skills.