Peer reviews

In a peer review you rate the work of another learner — and in return your own work is rated by two or three others. You learn twice in the process: once while writing your own answer, once while attentively reading others'.

Reviews are usually anonymous — you don't know whose work you're rating, and no one knows that you're the reviewer.

Submitting your own work

1. Open a lesson of the type "peer-review assignment" in the course player.
2. Read the task.
3. Compose your answer — type text or upload a file, depending on the assignment.
4. Submit.

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Input field for a peer-review submission with the task

Once you've submitted, the system automatically assigns two or three reviewers. When their ratings come in, you get a notification.

Reading the ratings

1. Bell icon at top right → click the "Peer review received" notification.
2. You see the ratings of all reviewers one below the other.

Per rating you see: - Scale ratings — e.g. "1-5 stars per criterion" - Yes/no questions — e.g. "Are all requirements met?" - Free-text feedback — the reviewer's detailed notes

Use the notes as learning material: what went well, what can I improve next time.

Rating someone else's work

When a piece of work is assigned to you for rating, a notification arrives along with an entry under Peer reviews in the main navigation.

1. Click the peer-review entry.
2. Read the assigned work carefully.
3. Go through the rating criteria — these are the scale and yes/no questions your trainer defined for this assignment.
4. In the free-text field, compose constructive feedback — what was good, what can be better, phrased concretely and politely.
5. Submit review.

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Review form with criteria and a free-text field

Tips for good feedback

• Specific instead of general — "The second paragraph is unclear because X" helps more than "not so good".
• Polite — you'd read the same feedback about your own work, too.
• A suggested solution — if you criticize something, ideally write right away how it would be better.
• Not only negative — what worked is just as important to mention.

Frequently asked questions

Can I rate my own work? No — the system distributes reviews so that your own submission doesn't come back to you for rating.

What happens if I miss a review deadline? The rating stays open, you can still submit it after the deadline. In reports, though, the late review is marked as overdue.

Can I see whose work I'm rating? In most assignments, no — reviews are configured as anonymous. If your trainer set the review mode to "not anonymous", you see the name.

Someone commented inappropriately. What do I do? Contact your trainer or the content manager. There's no automatic moderation, but insults can be removed afterwards.

When do I get ratings of my own work? As soon as the assigned reviewers have submitted their rating. That can take a few hours to a few days, depending on the deadline and how active your fellow learners are.