Managing peer assessment through Moodle

Date: 19th February 2014.

Time: 13:00 to 14:00

Online Webinar

Peer assessment is the assessment of student work by other students. It has been recognised that engaging students in peer assessment can help them in learning to evaluate their own learning and in interpreting assessment criteria.

Further benefits might also include:

• increasing feedback to students; 
• reducing marking loads for staff;
• giving students a sense of ownership of the assessment process;
• encouraging students to be more involved and take more responsibility for their learning;
• encouraging critical analysis of student work, so students see beyond a mark/grade.

However, one of the main disadvantages is the administration side of peer assessment from a lecturers point fo view; allocating peers to each of the students and collating the assessment grades and feedback. Moodle provides a peer assessment feature called "workshop" that addresses this disadvantage by simplying the entire process. This webinar will explain the workshop feature and address some frequently asked questions on how you can best manage peer assessment through Moodle.

By the end of this session participants will be able to:

• Explain the term workshop with respect to Moodle;
• set up your own peer assessment on your Moodle course;
• address concerns that you may have with regards to managing peer assessment through Moodle.