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In the peer assessment step of an open response assessment, you evaluate responses that were submitted by other learners in your course. The course team sets the requirement for how many peer assessments each learner is expected to complete.
How to Assess Peer Responses
At the top of the peer assessment step, there are counts of how many responses you are expected to assess and how many you have already assessed. For example, if you are required to perform 3 peer assessments and are about to start your first peer assessment, the count appears as '0 of 3 completed' on the right side of the Grade your peers page.
Note: If there are no submitted responses available for grading, a status message indicates that no peer responses are currently available for you to assess, and that you should check back later.
On the Grade your peers page, the assignment prompt will be displayed and your peer's response will be displayed below Peer response.
You assess other learners’ responses by selecting options in the rubric. Additionally, this step has a field below the rubric where you can provide comments about the learner’s response.
Note: In addition to a field for overall comments on a learner’s response, some peer assessments include Comments fields for individual criteria that allow you to enter up to 1000 characters. In some assessments, you must enter comments before you can submit the assessment.
After you have selected options in the rubric and provided comments about the response, select Submit peer grade. Then a modal will ask you, 'Ready to submit this peer grade?' You can select Submit peer grade to submit or Go back to keep working.
After you submit a peer assessment, if you're required to grade more responses, a message will read, 'Peer Assessment Successfully Submitted. Continue to submit peer assessments until you have completed the required number.' Select Grade next peer to review the next peer's response.
When you have completed the required number of peer assessments, the next step in the assignment becomes available.