Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Formative assessment with Peergrade.com!


As part of the assessment for learning, teachers may want to try out peergrade online platform to help in developing learners’ (students) confidence in peer and self-assessment. These are skills that learners need time and practice in. By using Peergrade platform, learners are able to keep track on their friends’ feedback as and when they want.

STEP 1
 Open https://www.peergrade.io/   and click get started. You may register yourself as a teacher.




STEP 2
Click on ‘teacher’ instead of ‘student’. If your student will be registering for themselves, they will then click ‘students’.


STEP 3
You can choose to sign up via Google account or other account.


STEP 4
Once you have create an account, you may start to create a class.





STEP 5
Click on ‘Use Class Code’ and the system will then generate a code for you. You may give
your students the code and get them to register to join the class.


STEP 6
Once you have created the class, you may begin creating an assignment. You can click
‘create assignment’ on bottom left of the page.
STEP 7
Key in the information required. You can also upload file, image or video to better facilitate
your students understanding on what’s required. 

STEP 8

Create your own rubric. You can copy questions from previous rubrics that you have
created in peergrade or if you are a new user, you may create your own. 

STEP 9
When you create question for the rubrics, you can choose students answer type to be in
text, scale or just yes/no. 

Tick below box appropriately. It will be better to tick that you require students to comment,
so that their feedback will be more explicit. 

Click preview if you want to view all the questions for your rubrics or click next to set the
date of submission and feedback. 

STEP 10
Set the date to your preference. Submission date must be earlier than feedback. Remember to set the time too. Once you are done, click create assignment. 

STEP 11
There will be 5 tabs that will appeared after you are done setting the date and time. Click settings to set the types of submission and/or the number of students to give feedback. 


You can also download all the students’ submission for your reference. 

STEP 12
From the course activities, you will get to see the progress and the allocation of feedback given to individual students. 



All the best in trying!!