Peergrade.io

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 Peergrade is a web-based software that makes it easier for teachers to enable their students to grade each other’s work. At the same time, peer grading is a useful learning tool in its own right. The activity helps the students to evaluate, critique, reflect, and articulate feedback. When students assess their own and others’ work, they are actively involved in the learning process and their independence and motivation is improved. The essence of peer review is that the assignments will be evaluated by several persons, creating more extensive feedback than a teacher normally has time to produce. The students will be more familiar with the evaluation process and criteria and therefore trained in producing better assignments themselves.  Letting students partake in the process of evaluating and giving feedback enables them to learn from the work of others, reflect upon the evaluation criteria in the course and [gain] skills in giving constructive feedback. To that end, Peergrade is a platform solely designed for facilitating peer feedback and peer grading within the school courses. 


It lets teachers set an assignment and grading criteria (rubric), and invite students to upload their completed work to Peergrade, such as in the form of a Word document, images or YouTube video. The platform then distributes those assignments to different students randomly for evaluation. Students give feedback to their classmates using the rubric set up by the teacher; they can add written comments as well as selecting options from the rubric. Finally, students can view the feedback given to them; they can rate the comments as helpful or not, and even flag problematic comments. Letting each student evaluate assignments both frees time for the teacher to focus on other aspects of the course and enables the student to learn more.

The platform uses advanced statistical models to estimate what would be a fair grade and help to eliminate peer bias and natural language processing for inferring the quality of text feedback between students. This enables teachers and students to trust the system, get and give fair grades and gain insight into their course, it’s a platform where students can evaluate each other’s work anonymously.  While teachers get a full overview of submissions, feedback, and results. For teachers, Peergrade offers data about student performance on a class and individual level, including insights about the evaluation rubrics used and the quality of feedback provided.



This would be an outstanding addition to any class where writing or project-based learning are core activities. This is an ideal tool if you wish to:

  • Give more formative feedback to students on their work
  • Activate students as the owners of their own learning
  • Create alignment between teaching activities and assessment practices
  • Heighten students’ capacity for judgement and making intellectual choices

Start with Peergrade's rubric library to get some ideas for using the tool: There are some great tools here that might help you structure peer feedback around a lab report, a history paper, or an ELA essay. In addition to some sample rubrics, this page features a list of tips and tricks for how to give and receive peer feedback. The rubrics included on the site are Peergrade's real standout feature: The sample rubrics are a great tool to help teachers start using formative assessment, and the informative text about offering peer feedback gives an excellent in-depth look at how and why to invite your students to engage in peer review.






A quick introduction - https://youtu.be/US_raZCfJAM
Detailed walkthrough video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajJMWdE8BUQ&t=321s

Check out the pdf listing the features of this tool in ET3 #19 mail.

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