***NOTE: PlayPosit Peer Review Assignments enable instructors teaching in Canvas to assign an asynchronous activity where students are asked with submitting a video and then reviewing the video submissions of the peers in their small group. The structure of a PlayPosit Per Review Assignment helps avoid some technical issues that students commonly encounter when working with video and empowers students to leave feedback right within the video player as timestamped comments.***

Creating Peer Review Groups in Canvas

PlayPosit Peer Review Assignments leverage the Canvas groups feature to split students into small groups. To complete a PlayPosit Peer Review Assignment, students must submit a video to the assignment and then return to the assignment to complete a peer review for each of the submissions of the students in their small group. Before creating the PlayPosit assignment, instructors should, in their Canvas course, create a group set that can used for the assignment and assign each student to a group within the set. Please reference the following Canvas Instructor Guide for instructions on creating a group set in your Canvas course:

How do I add a group set in a course?

Creating the PlayPosit Peer Review Assignment

Once the group set is ready in the Canvas course, instructors can create a new assignment with the external tool submission type in the course and configure it as a PlayPosit Peer Review Assignment by performing the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Assignments page of the Canvas course by selecting "Assignments" in the course navigation menu.

2. Select the "+ Assignment."

3. Enter a name for the Assignment in the Name field.

4. Enter details and instructions for the assignment in the Details field. In this field, you should specify requirements for both the video submission and peer review evaluations students will be required to complete. To help provide technical scaffolding for students, we recommend including a link to our guide PlayPosit (Canvas) - Peer Review Assignment Guide for Students.

5. Enter a point value for the assignment in the Points field.

6. Select External Tool in the Submission Type drop down menu.

7. Underneath Enter or find an External Tool URL, select the "Find" button.

8. In the list of tools in the Configure External Tool menu, select "PlayPosit." The gray PlayPosit assignment setup screen will load in the Link Resource from External Tool window.

9. In the gray PlayPosit assignment setup screen, select the "Enter PlayPosit" link to load the My Bulbs menu of PlayPosit.

10. In the My Bulbs menu, select the down arrow next to the "Add New Bulb" button and select "Add Peer Review Assignment."

11. Enter a name in the Name of Peer Review Assignment field.

12. Update the text in the Learning objective/instructions field to add instructions and requirements specific to your assignment. Consider writing a condensed version of the requirements you provided in the details field of the assignment in Canvas (see step 4). Students will see these instructions within the PlayPosit interface.

13. If you want to require students to fill out a rubric while evaluating their peers' submissions, select the "Enable grading rubric" option. If you do not wish to have students use a rubric, instead enter the point value you wish to use in the "Points" field. When using a rubric, the total assignment point value in PlayPosit will be calculated automatically from the sum of points possible across all rubric criteria.

***NOTE: This point value does not need to match the value specified in Canvas during step 5; PlayPosit will pass the percentage of points earned versus points possible in PlayPosit to Canvas, which uses that percentage to calculate the Canvas gradebook score.***

14. If you enabled rubric grading in the previous step, select the "Create Rubric" button then proceed to step 15. If you are not using a rubric, select the "Save" button that appears in place of the Create Rubric button and skip to step 17 of this guide.

15. Create your rubric in the rubric designer:

        1. Add additional criterion by selecting "Add Numeric Criterion."

        2. Enter a descriptive label for each criterion in its text field.

        3. To adjust the point value of each criterion, select the "Out of X Points" button and adjust the point value slider. Each criterion can be worth between 1 and 5 points.

        4. If you want to add organizational section headers above groups of criteria, select "Add Section" and enter a title for the section.

        5. Criterion can be reordered by clicking and dragging the handle dots on the left edge of the criterion.

        6. Delete an unwanted criterion by clicking its red trash can icon.

16. Once you have finished creating your rubric, select the "Assign" button located in the bottom right of the rubric designer window.

17. Next you must select a Canvas group set to use for the learner peer groups for this assignment:

        1. In the Link Assignment menu, select the "Manage Group Sets" button.

        2. Under the Import Group Sets tab of the Learner Group Sets window that opens, select the "Fetch Group Sets" button.

        3. If this is your first time fetching Canvas groups from PlayPosit, a tab may open prompting you to authorize PlayPosit to access data from your Canvas account. Select "Authorize" and then return to the PlayPosit tab of your browser.

        4. If you see the message "Unauthorized canvas authenticating now" appear, select the same "Fetch Group Sets" button again. The second attempt should succeed. You will see a "Fetching Imported Groups" message and then your Canvas group sets will appear in the Learner Group Sets window.

        5. In the bottom-right corner of the Learner Group Sets window, select the "Save and Close" button to return to the Link Assignment window where you will select the appropriate imported group set.

        6. In the Select Group Set drop-down menu, select the group set you wish to use for the assignment.

        7. Select the "Link" button. The PlayPosit setup window will close and you will be returned to the Canvas Configure External Tool menu.

18. In the Canvas Configure External Tool menu, select the "Select" button. The external tool URL now appears in the Submission Type box's external tool URL field.

19. Enter a due date and availability dates for the Canvas assignment.

20. At the bottom of the page, select "Save" to save the assignment, or select "Save & Publish" to save the assignment and publish it.

Monitoring and Grading a PlayPosit Peer Review Assignment

After students have begun submitting to the assignment, you can monitor their progress and enter grades by navigating to the assignment in your Canvas course and selecting the Monitor button in the gray PlayPosit window. Grades that the instructor enters in PlayPosit will pass back to the Canvas gradebook. For more information on using the PlayPosit Monitor page to grade Peer Review Assignments, please see PlayPosit Help - Grading a Peer Review Bulb.