Create a Peer Evaluation with Categories
Updated: July 24, 2017
Peer evaluations with categories allows students to assess their teammates on a variety of areas.
Before you start
- Be sure you’re familiar with how Peer Evaluations work.
- This guide is specifically for evaluation with categories. If you want to balance points between team members 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 Categories.
- Click Select Template.
- To edit the default scales, click Edit Question.
- You can change the label, scale range, and add endpoint labels.
- Click Update Question when you’re done editing.
- To add a new scale, click New Scale.
- Use the arrows to rearrage the scales.
- 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.
![Categories](/assets/support/pe/pe__category-template-d4f1c1c6c271ea22c75a31eb1f33549fde088a3719a526fffb302d3e92dec6c1.png)
![Category scale](/assets/support/pe/pe__categories-quant-727885305aef27140f7db5e6b822b91d368a77f8cc33d85aade531dd123bc82e.png)
![New Scale](/assets/support/pe/pe__new-scale-btn-5786ac58c96ae32a8dbebd469b423d081b3887ca64d15150eabaa04a8811cd83.png)
![Arrows](/assets/support/pe/pe__arrow-btn-991d48d8bd3388791c54a347819303dabae999178dd7f742e16c4da0f5557091.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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