Intro

Peer review assignments allow students to provide comments on their classmates' submitted essays. This fosters collaboration, critical thinking, and reflection by encouraging students to learn from one another's work.

Peer Review Types

Rumi offers two types of peer review assignments:

• Class-wide Peer Review – Everyone in the class can review any other peer from the class.

• Selective Peer Review – Instructors have full control over who reviews whom, with the option to automatically or manually assign or adjust reviewer pairings.

Instructor Setup

Class-wide Peer Review

To enable class-wide peer review, select the Class-wide Peer Review option within the Rumi Dashboard when creating an assignment. This enables peer-to-peer feedback for your assignment.

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Selective Peer Review

To set up selective peer review:

Step 1. Select Selective Peer Review as the peer review type and click Assign Reviewers.

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Step 2. To automatically assign reviewers, select the number of peer reviewers you want per student and click Assign. The system will randomly assign peer reviewers to each student.

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Step 3. If needed, you can manually adjust the assignments by:

• Removing a reviewer by clicking the X button on their name chip

• Searching for and adding a different student as a reviewer

• Clicking the Clear button to reset all assignments and start over

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Step 4. Once you are satisfied with the assignments, click Save Assignments to save your selections.

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Step 5. You will be redirected to the settings page, where a confirmation message will appear to indicate that assignments were saved successfully. An "Assigned" chip will also appear next to the "Assign Reviewers" button confirming that reviewers have been successfully assigned.

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Student Experience

Class-wide Peer Review

Students will see a View Peer Essays button at the top of their screen.

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Clicking it gives them access to their assigned peers' essays, where they can highlight sections and leave comments. The experience mirrors commenting on their own work, making the process familiar and intuitive.

Selective Peer Review

Similar to class-wide peer review, students can review their peers' work by clicking on the View Peer Essays button located in the top corner of their essay page.

This will open the Peer Review Dashboard, where students can:

• View the essays they are assigned to review

• See who is assigned to review their own essay

• Track whether reviews have been completed or are still pending

Note: Students can only access essays that are assigned to them for review, and only if the essay has been submitted.

Tracking Reviews

Class-wide Peer Review

• As students complete their reviews, the activity is reflected in their Peer Review Dashboard. Students can see submitted essays and the number of comments added to each essay.

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• Instructors can monitor all review activity from the Submissions Dashboard.

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Selective Peer Review

• As students complete their reviews, the activity is reflected in their Peer Review Dashboard.

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• Instructors can monitor all review activity from the Submissions Dashboard.

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• By clicking View Details, instructors can see a detailed breakdown of each student's review progress, including which papers have been reviewed and which are still pending.

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