Body
In this article
Guide Topic
PeerMark is a Tunitin’s tool for structured peer review. It allows anonymous reviews and includes plagiarism detection through Turnitin. Instructors can place specific questions for reviewers to answer and distribute papers automatically among students for review.
In Turnitin PeerMark, instructors can grade two items:
- The paper submission and
- The Students’ peer feedback
This guide will walk you through the steps on how to create and grade Turnitin’s PeerMark assignments.
How to create a PeerMark Assignment
- In Canvas, click on Assignments from the Course Navigation Menu.
- Click on the 1) options menu next to + Assignment button and select 2)Turnitin from the shown options to create a Turnitin assignment.
- A new window will pop up with the options to create Turnitins' assignments, click on Classic Standard Assignment.
- Next, you will be able to introduce the assignment details:
- ❶ Title, Instructions and Max Grade of the assignment.
- ❷ Dates for the student submission.
- ❸ Check the box next to Enable PeerMark.
- ❹ Click the Optional Settings link to adjust Turnitin behavior related to this assignment.
- Click the Submit button to create the assignment.
Configure Peer Review Criteria
- Access the assignment by clicking on the assignment title from the assignments page.
- Open the PeerMark menu and select the PeerMark Setup option.
- Under PeerMark Assignment tab, you can edit the assignment set the max points value for the peer review assignment and adjust the additional settings, this is where you can review or distribute the papers.
- On the PeerMark Questions Tab you can add specific questions for students to answer during the review of their peers. You can choose sample questions from a library, add or delete from a library, create your own questions and reorder them.
- From the Distribution Tab, you can check and confirm how peers’ reviews are going to be assigned. You can see the number of reviews that have been assigned to students (system Assigned) and adjust as needed using the plus and minus buttons.
- When you are done with the PeerMark Setup, return to the PeerMark Assignment Tab and click on the Save & Continue button.
Grading a Turnitin PeerMark Assignment
In Turnitin PeerMark Assignments, instructors can grade two items: ❶ the paper submission and ❷ the students’ peer feedback.
- To grade students’ submissions, open the Assignment Inbox and select the paper by clicking the blue pencil in the Grade column,
then use Turnitin Feedback Studio tools to annotate and grade the paper.
- To grade the students’ peer feedback, open the assignment, click on the PeerMark Tab, and select PeerMark Reviews option.
The PeerMark inbox will open displaying all the students, how many reviews out of the total number of reviews assigned to the students have been completed.
To grade students’ peer feedback:
- Locate the row belonging to the student whose review you'd like to grade. Then, select the numbered View submitted reviews badge in the Submitted column to reveal the student's reviews.
- Select the blue checkmark button to open a PeerMark review for grading.
- At the top right, enter a grade for the review, and click the Submit button. NOTE: The Grade field will only be displayed once the due date for the PeerMark assignment has passed. Once it appears, you can set or edit the grade.
If in Additional Settings you selected the option to Award maximum points on review within the PeerMark assignment settings, then every completed review by a student will be awarded 10 points. A completed review is when all the questions an instructor has added to the review have been answered. Once the due date has passed for the PeerMark assignment, the student’s total grade for the assignment will be available for the instructor to view.
Additional grading information
- Paper submission grades sync with Canvas Gradebook automatically upon the PeerMark assignment’s Feedback Release Date.
- Peer Feedback grades don’t automatically sync with Canvas Gradebook. If peer feedback grades need to be posted in Canvas, a separate column on the Gradebook must be created to enter grades manually.
- The total score for all reviews for a reviewer will be normalized to the point value that was selected for the PeerMark assignment during assignment creation. This is true whether the Award maximum points on review is set to Yes or No.
Example 1 - If Award maximum points on review is set to No there are a total of three reviews in the review set for the PeerMark assignment and the point value is 100.
- Review 1 -- The instructor gives the review a 9
- Review 2 -- The instructor gives the review a 10
- Review 3 -- The reviewer did not start the review
The total score for all the reviews would be 19 (9+10+0=19) out of the total possible points of 30 19 out of 30 = 0.633. Normalizing the 63% to the PeerMark point value of 100 would be: 0.633 * 100 = 63.3, rounded to 53 points out of 100.
Example 2 - If Award maximum points on review is set to Yes, there are four questions to be answered in the review and there are a total of 3 reviews in the review set for the PeerMark assignment. The point value for the PeerMark assignment is 100.
- Review 1 -- The reviewer entered content for all four questions, but one is considered “unanswered” because it does not meet the minimum length requirement. The score for this review is 0.
- Review 2 -- The reviewer answered all four questions. The score for this review is 10.
- Review 3 -- The reviewer did not start the review. The score for this review is 0.
The total score for all the reviews would be 10 (0+10+0=10) out of the total possible points of 30. 10 out of 30 = 0.33. Normalizing the 33% to the PeerMark point value of 100 would be: 0.33 * 100 = 33 points out of 100.