Create a Balance Points Peer Evaluation
Updated: July 24, 2017
Balance points peer evaluation is based off the Michaelsen’s method. Students have 1 slider per team member and he/she must balance a specified number of points between their team members (i.e., If I want to give Timmy 3 more points I must take them away from Sofia).
Before you start
- Be sure you’re familiar with how Peer Evaluations work.
- This guide is specifically for Balance Points evaluations. If you want to have multiple categories on your peer evaluation read our guide here.
- If you need to leave at anytime, click on Exit Builder. Your data will be saved and you’ll be able to complete the evaluation when you’re ready.
Creating a peer evaluation
To create a peer evaluation, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the space you’d like to add a Peer Evaluation.
- Click New Exercise.
- Click on Select Exercise under Peer Evaluation
- Give your peer evaluation a name.
- Add an overview to give your students some direction. Students will read this before they go into their exercise.
- Click on Next Step.
![New Exercise](/assets/support/pe/pe__new-exercise-btn-4ff5ee810bbad8a5537084989cdcd3264275b65c38892f813f176cf2b4159f27.png)
![Select Type](/assets/support/pe/pe__select-type-eecfb3bb25b0bd4022e4c8e4a35ba1d148ac884216eca5e0e3971ba904c9ec39.png)
![Next step](/assets/support/pe/pe__next-step-btn-9f6caf59dd42daae2c5ac7433526af9c2d2df4f862998312414ef6049a47d080.png)
Content step
The content step is where you focus on the questions and content of the peer evaluation.
- Choose Michaelsen’s Method (Balance Points).
- If your evaluations have categories, learn how to create a peer evaluation with categories
- Click Select Template.
- Choose how many points per member for the total amount to distribute.
- Default is 10 points per member.
- If you’d like to edit the default question, click Edit Question.
- You can change the label, scale range, and add endpoint labels
- Click Update Question when you’re done editing.
- You’re given two default questions, click Edit Question if you’d like to edit.
- You can change the label and the feedback type.
- Click Update Question when you’re done editing.
- If you’ve made changes and would like save it as a template, Click on Yes, Make This A Template.
- Name your template and click Save Template.
![Balance points](/assets/support/pe/pe__template--balance-points-d276646baa9dd041d96fbf9d434af3c7f58112c2725801990bf6be2ef315bfb5.png)
![Point distribution](/assets/support/pe/pe_points-distribution-4ab111ccff8e6e6ed1cd86b934a73680fbfe3fc280d8acc81aa3051fe714fab0.png)
![Scale](/assets/support/pe/pe__balance-points-slider-151bf44c106d52693b1280bede32f7b6d817f52586bbedb427fcda5b58c79194.png)
![Qualitative section](/assets/support/pe/pe__qualitative-section-07661df4314881ef1f62cb64a33f4ee88fea419dd20ec567de63e91733fcc086.png)
![Save template](/assets/support/pe/general__save-template-5b2e8e68af347200e7d788c8b5b6336795877384114b3a2303ad560977e36b58.png)
Settings step
- Choose the date and time you’d like the peer evaluation to be available to your students
- Choose the date and time you’d like the peer evaluation to be close.
- Click on Next Step.
![Pick date](/assets/support/pe/general__date-7573d4884bcb61e4e57829b283d7d8f92682f98a1a6129eebbdc0b6266cb9dc5.png)
![Next step](/assets/support/pe/pe__next-step-btn-9f6caf59dd42daae2c5ac7433526af9c2d2df4f862998312414ef6049a47d080.png)
Confirmation step
- Review the details of each section. If you’d like to edit a particular section, click the Edit Button for the section you’d like to change.
- Click Finish Building to complete the process.
![Finish building](/assets/support/pe/general__finish-building-btn-7f24663111eaed512c2f908257e33bf5747538d2490fa7a35c328f23fa2d6fc5.png)
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