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iPeer is a peer review platform which lets students evaluate their group members. It facilitates self-evaluations as well, and is integrated with Canvas.

Supported by:

UBC Sauder Learning Services

Integrated with Canvas:

Yes

Use by UBC Sauder Instructors:

Frequent

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Teaching Scenarios

iPeer helps collect feedback within student teams. This encourages accountability in group work, and provides students with opportunities to reflect and be heard by the instructor.

Any feedback given is anonymous, and instructors can choose whether they want the results to be released or not.

Evaluations can be created from scratch, with a variety of question types (Likert, Paragraph, Sentence, Dropdown) to choose from. These can be saved and re-used in future courses.

Grades can be synced to Canvas, or exported to a CSV for further analysis.

User Guides & Links

Instructors @ UBC Sauder

iPeer is used commonly at Sauder to get students to:

1 — Reflect

Students can be given a text box to write in.

How did this teammate contribute most when working working with others?

2 — Rate

Students can be given a Likert scale to click on.

Rate this person’s participation. A rating of “3” indicates that the team member’s contributions met your expectation. A rating of “4” means that the team member contributed slightly more than expected, and “5” reflects a contribution well above your expectation. Similarly, a “2” reflects a contribution slightly less than expected and a “1” is a contribution that was much below what was acceptable.

3 — Distribute

Students can be given a dynamic slider to adjust for each group member.

Example — Did each group member contribute equally? Rate your peer’s relative performance using the sliders below.

Resources & Support

How to Facilitate Group Work

Set Up and Utilize Groups

Review UBC’s guide on creating group sets in Canvas: https://keepteaching.ubc.ca/group-work/.
You can then assign groups to assignments, discussion posts, etc. click here to see how to assign an assignment to a course group.
You can also allow real-time group work within ZOOM breakout rooms. This has to be done while you are hosting the meeting.
If you have more than 20 groups, we recommend batch-uploading groups through iPeer, then syncing to Canvas (Step 6B in How to create a course in iPeer and create groups )

Let Students Manage Groups

Read UBC’s guide on how to allow students to create their own groups for discussion and collaboration: https://keepteaching.ubc.ca/group-work/#student-groups

Group Presentations

If you have in class group presentations planned, here is the approach we recommend:

Synchronous Groups Presentations:
- Set up a meeting in ZOOM and name for each group. Ensure that you change the role of group members presenting from ‘Participant’ to ‘Co-Host’. This will allow them to share their screen or PowerPoint slides. The group members can join remotely and present to just the instructor or the whole class. The presentation can also be recorded to review later.
Asynchronous Groups Presentations:
- For asynchronous group presentations involving students, we suggest using distinct Collaborate Ultra sessions for each group. Students in each group would be moderators with the ability to share slides, speak, control the room etc. When they are ready to present, they will record their session and it will become available for the instructor to access in Collaborate Ultra. For instructions on set up click HERE.

Group Evaluation

iPeer is a group peer review application where instructors can customize and receive students’ evaluations of one another. These anonymized evaluations can then be shared with the evaluated student or kept confidential between the evaluator and instructor.

For more information about iPeer, see Peer Reviews page (STP) and iPeer Instructor Guide (LT Hub).

If you would like to use iPeer please complete the steps in Canvas Step by Step: How to Link iPeer with Canvas. Then contact help@sauder.ubc.ca to set up the evaluation.

If you have more than 20 groups, we recommend batch-uploading groups through iPeer, then syncing to Canvas (Step 6B in document above)