I've set up a basic workshop and it's up and running. A student has asked a fair and rather predicatable question: is peer assessment anonymous?
Obviously, the answer to this question would have a strong bearing on how students assess each other's work. Although the help files discuss anonymous peer assessment in general terms, they do not seem to indicate how to implement it, or whether this is the default condition. Nor is it obvious from the workshop setup screen.
Any help very much appreciated.
John O'Sullivan
. Obviously if the work contains the author's name the student will know whose work they are grading but the workshop does not give the author's name. The student assessment is anonymous, the student being assessed by another student wouldn't know which student did it. The teacher's assessment are labelled as the teacher's assessment (it may have the teacher's name either on the assessment itself or the email about the assessment), so the students are able to distinguish between assessments done by peers and those done by the teacher. The teacher gets to see names when doing their assessments so from the point of view of the teacher the grading is not anonymous.
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