Hello everyone, I am Ben Hertz, the coordinator of the European Schoolnet Academy.
I'm going to briefly show you in this video how to complete a peer review activity.
You can see here that there are three stages of this activity.
The first stage, Hand-in your task, is when you have to hand in your own work.
The second stage, you have to review your colleagues,
and in the third stage, you can access any reviews that have been done about your own work.
Now below this, you can see the deadline for the submission of your own work.
Make sure to hand in your work before this deadline
as it is impossible to receive an extension.
The whole system is automatic so once the deadline is over,
you won't be able to hand in your work anymore.
Now below this, you have the most important part ready.
This is the text box where you can submit any work
that you want to submit as part of this activity.
In most of our courses, we ask you to submit a lesson plan for the peer review activity.
So the important thing is that you paste your lesson plan link in this text box.
You can get that link directly from the Learning Designer
which is the tool that we usually ask you to use when you prepare a lesson plan.
So, I've already got a text here and what you can see here, this is really the most important bit.
So here's the link to my lesson plan, and this is the link.
Why a bit of context for the lesson plan?
Tell your reviewer a bit about yourself, the context in which you teach,
what type of age group do you teach, what type of class size do you teach,
what kind of technology do you have in the classroom,
what kind of other equipment do you have in your classroom.
So here, you have a very short text.
It doesn't have to be long, just a few sentences,
giving a bit of context to the reviewer.
That makes it easier for them to be able to review the lesson plan that you have submitted.
Now finally, it is absolutely essentially that you click here on the “Hand in task” button.
Otherwise your submission won't be counted.
And now we look at the “Hand in task” button, you will get a quick warning message
so that's really the last chance for you to correct anything that you haven't done yet.
And then, make sure you click again on the “Hand in task” button.
Sometimes it can take a little bit but then this screen should disappear
and you have successfully handed in your task. Voilà, here we go.
For the Stage 2, once you have submitted your work,
you will have to wait at least until the next day to do the reviews of other people's work.
The system automatically allocates the work between you around 1am in the morning everyday.
So if you go back to the activity here,
you can now see that we are at Stage 2: “Review your colleagues”.
Now, below here, you can see that there are two reviews waiting for us to be done.
In this case, they are both the work of a test account that we use
but in your case, this will be work from two different people who have also been participating on the course.
In order to look at their work and to do the review, you have to click on the plus sign.
So I did that for the first one here.
This is what the person has submitted.
You will notice it's the same text as we showed you in the Stage 1.
Now what I would have to do is I would have to copy this link here,
have a look at the lesson plan that this person has submitted,
and then, based on that lesson plan, I would have to write a review down here in this text box.
So I'm just going to follow through this now and I'm going to post the review here.
Now, very important, again as in Stage 1, you need to make sure that you click this “Review” button.
If you don't click this “Review” button, the system won't recognise that you've done the review.
So we're going to go ahead and do that now.
Again, you will get a warning box that allows you to review what you have written as the review.
Make sure you still click the “Review” button.
Again, it takes sometimes a bit of time,
but as before, this box should disappear and your review should be recognised.
So you will now see that the text box here has appeared, that the review has been recorded,
and we can proceed with Step 3.
In the third stage, it is pretty simple and you should receive an email
that confirms that your task has been reviewed or assessed by a colleague.
And you can then just visit the section here again and click on “Reviews received”
and you will see two reviews have been made by colleagues on the course.
You just again click on the heading here with the plus or the minus sign,
and that will show you the review that has been submitted by your colleague.