PeerScholar offers the following functionality:  

 

  • Brightspace integration: account creation, group functionality, grading synchronisation 

  • Multiple pedagogical activity types built in: 

    • Classic peer & self-assessment activities 
    • Teamwork & Group Work activities 
    • Team member evaluations 
    • Case Study activities   

  • Multimodal activities: text, videos, audio, computer code, documents, and LaTeX content. Annotations & inline comments (including video timeline annotation) 

  • Flexible management: late submission, ability for students to assess additional peers 

  • Customizable workflow for formative and summative assessment, enable self-assessment anywhere in the peer assessment process, ask students additional questions anytime, additional training support videos for students in each phase, ability for students to revisit all aspect of their activity 

  • Granular control over grading, access to validated rubrics, or create your own