Grading the Peer Comments

This screen is used to enter the teacher's grades for the comments made by the students during the peer grading phase of the assignment. A relatively simple grading is used, the score out of 20. The treacher can decide what is being graded and the relative scores from the instructions given to the students before the peer grading started. For example, at a higher level the students may be required to give critical comments, at an intermediate level the students may be required to point out strengths and weaknesses, and at a lower level the students may be simply pointing out errors and inaccuracies.

The comments are grouped together by submission, that is each set of comments refers to the same piece of work. If available the teacher's own comments are shown first as a kind of benchmark.

Note that this screen can be used iteratively and there is no need to grade all the comments in one go. Indeed it may be desirable to regrade some of the comments once the "standard" of the comments has been established.

The grades of comments that have been scored are saved by clicking on the apprpriate button at the foot of the page. Once the teacher is happy with all the comment grades the next step is to calculate the Final Grades.