Peer learning requires careful time management. We recommend this approach:
- Monday 11:45 PM Writing task is due.
- At least a 12 hour gap to make sure most writers are prepared for review.
- Tuesday 11:45 AM Review task is assigned, groups are automatically formed, and peer learning activity begins.
- Enough time for late writers to submit the writing assignment.
- Wednesday 11:45 AM Late grouping takes place and writers who submitted after the review start date are placed into groups.
- Enough time for reviewers to give feedback to all drafts.
- Wednesday 11:45 PM Review task is due.
- Enough time for writers to process feedback using Eli’s features
- Thursday 11:45 PM Review plan is due.
- Enough time for the instructor to write back to students (if desired)
- Sunday 11:45 PM Resubmitted writing is due (if desired).
To make this timeline work, we recommend using automatic grouping, but it can also be accomplished manually.
Instructors “save as draft” review tasks until the peer learning activity begins. Once students submit feedback, the writing task and review task lock, so using “save as draft” in a review task keeps students from starting early. This sequence works well:
- Design and assign your writing tasks.
- Design your review task questions (called response types) in advance, if you’d like. “Save as draft” the review task.
- Just before review begins, form groups, excluding late writers.
- “Assign” the review task.
- If you are accommodating late writers, manually add writers who have submitted drafts to groups in the review task.
- “Assign” the revision plan and resubmission tasks (if desired).
