PeerWise Instructor User Guide What's Inside
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1. and paste Define the student identifiers for this course one per line in the text are Each value should be unique and Student identifiers should be disting Administrator identifiers You can return to edit the identifiers in this list at any tig Course ID Number Students will need this number to access the course Tip Simply copy and paste your list of identifiers into the text area on the left ID 81 54 For example if you are using student ID numbers as the identifiers for this course simply paste the list of student ID numbers into the text area Customize the instructions you When a student registers or joins a course with PeerWise they must enter the Course ID shown above and one of the values on this list Students will be shown the prompt below when asked to provide their identifier is prompt so that it would like students to see when is more appropriate for the list of identifiers that you are specifiying to modify simpl j they join your PeerWise course Prompt Please enter your identifier for this course Ex Enter your student id This message should prompt students to enter their identifier i e one of the values from the text area above e g Please enter your identifier for this cot e aS indicated Dy y r course instructo e g Please enter your student ID numbe e g Please enter your email address Update identifier list and prompt Upda2. PeerWise site at http peerwise cs auckland ac nz at unb_ ca Use the username and password provided in the email from PeerWise after you register it takes about 1 2 days to receive the email PeerWise User Guide page 1ofn printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08 PeerWise i gi A A he FF University of New Brunswick Welcome to PeerWise PeerWise supports you and your peers in the creation sharing evaluation and discussion of assessment questions relevant to your studies You design the questions fa Creating a question requires you to reflect on what you are learning in a course Explaining the answer to your question in your own words helps to reinforce your understanding If you teach it you understand it See what everyone thinks Az Attempt questions written by your peers and see how everyone else has answered Feedback is immediate you have access to explanations and you can participate in discussions See what others think is important Learn from your peers p 4 Search by quality difficulty and topic to find questions of interest to you Follow authors who contribute questions that you like and request help when you need it Help your peers and let them help you PeerWise is simple to use you can access it anywhere and anytime New to PeerWise Find out all you need to know Create new course 2A Create a course Click create new cou
3. gt gt View instructions for students gt gt gt View daily usage charts gt gt gt Define course tags gt gt gt Define course messages gt gt gt Choose editor profile gt gt gt Delete this course 4D Copy the displayed instructions to a place where all your students can access it a class email or on Desire2Learn PeerWise User Guide page 4 of n printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08 Link to PeerWise Registration This term we will be using PeerWise as a place for you to create share and evaluate assessment questions with your classmates Start by visiting PeerWise here http peerwise cs auckland ac nz at unb_ca If you have not used PeerWise before just click the Registration link and follow the prompts All you need to do is choose a user name and a password for your PeerWise account Course ID Number If you have used PeerWise before simply log in and then select Join course from the Home menu students will need To access our course Instructional Tech Lab Demo you will need to enter two pieces of information when registering 1 Course ID 8154 2 Identifier Please enter a number between 100 and 300 to uniquely identify you in the course Prompt This will display the customized prompt asking for student ID s 4E Click Back to Administration tab when you are done 5A Customize the question editing pan
4. the tags that might be used in an Introductory Psychology course PeerWise User Guide page 5 of n printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08 Define course tags When a student creates a question they can assign one or more tags to their question indicating relevant topics Appropriately chosen tags can help other students find questions of interest The list of tags from which students can select may be populated initially with a set of instructor defined course tags There are currently 0 course tags defined Define the course tags for this course by entering them one per line or separated by spaces in the text area below Psychological Science Brains Each tag should be no longer than 33 characters and may consist of Behaviour alphabetic characters numbers the underscore _ or the hyphen Sensing_and_perceiving States_of Consciousness Growing_and_developing Examples aaa da Introduction to science Intelligence_and_Language Lecture_s Emotions_and_Motivations Anatomy_of_the_endocrine_system Personality Weeks 1 3 Psychological_Disorders Allow students to You can choose whether or not students are able to define their own tags If create their own tags you disallow this then you should provide the course tags Update tags for this course 6C Optional Restrict students from creating their own tags by unchecking the box Allow students to create their
5. PeerWise Instructor User Guide C ET Updated 2013 Oct 08 by Teaching amp Learning Services CENTRE FOR ENHANCED TEACHING amp LEARNING Contact cetl unb ca What s Inside Introducing PeerWise Access to PeerWise Step by Step Example 1A LOGIN TO THE UNB PEERWISE SITE PA CREATE AoCOURSE oipenaccazcceuaund sane ssaacaau sna deccnavennssumeadesucaneeesecund ancncees ore amuncesiels wadeaau amc esnan ua neeun count ome nnduivans maceeune aeuauseoeeueertaaees 2 SA UPLOAD STUDENT IDENTIFIER sescdecenes ctysacetcatsacescee aeedeonceeccensteuinccetresintussececceecaenateserceicetaaescseesnuecasnceesecnstaunece tress nanesaceceetcamaee 3 4A PROVIDE YOUR STUDENTS WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACCESSING YOUR PEERWISE COURSE sscsccscceceeceecsececcecesseenececeucsesseeeceeceeeass 4 5A CUSTOMIZE THE QUESTION EDITING PANE sccscceccecsecsecnececcecsecsecsececsecsessececeecessecsececeecsesseseececeessesseeeeeecsesseseeeeceesseseeeeeeeseesas 5 CREAT PU UG ero cece cara ess sc ee sew cre ed ce teas noe ei sen ne es ce ics en eee eee 5 7A PROVIDE AN INSTRUCTOR WITH ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS TO YOUR COURSE ssccsecescceecceeccnceuceeecenseeustseeenceeuctseeeuceeuctseseueeeeseseees 6 SA YOUR COURSE S SE GU P 2 cccaso nie wnsuecastactasacusedeavatanaseccrutaasseeceehuoneadenecnsiat pie EE OEE a 7 QA MODERATE YOUR COURSE cccceccecceccccccctscencececceceeceecencencencenceaeesessensensescencenceueeneesessescessenseeeaeesessessensensenceace
6. e Under Courses click Choose editor Profile The current editor profile is Images and is highlighted below Plain Basic text editing options only Images Basic text editing options including the ability to upload images Equations Text editing options image uploading and a simple graphical equation editor Videos Text editing options image uploading and uploading of YouTube videos Complete Text editing image uploading a simple equation editor and YouTube videos 5B The different editors that are available when students create questions in PeerWise are shown The default option highlighted in blue includes basic editing and the ability to upload images However some subject matter may require a graphical equation editor or the ability to upload videos for a question or both Click Complete to allow full functionality for students 5C Click Save profile selection 5D Click Administration from the breadcrumbs bar at the top of the page Home Main menu gt Administration gt Choose editor profile 6A Create a Question Tag When students create questions they can indicate which topics it is relevant to by assigning tags As the instructor you can predefine some of the tags that you expect students might want to use Example If a course has several units you could create a tag for each unit name Under Courses click Define Course Tags 6B Enter one tag per line without spaces The example below shows
7. ifiers Your courses Pending courses there are not yet any student identifiers associated with the following courses Select Upload identifer list below to store the identifiers you would like students to provide in order to access the course Students provide this identifier information when they register or join a course with PeerWise Instructional Tech Lab Demo admin Course ID 6154 Upload identifer list You are not yet a member of any courses Your course will be displayed as a pending course until you setup the identifiers When a student wishes to access your course on PeerWise they will first need to provide one of the student identifier values that you have associated with the course This will allow you to track the participation of your students Students only need to enter this identifier value one time when they register a new PeerWise account if they have never used PeerWise before or when they select Join course from the Home menu if they have used PeerWise before These identifiers can be absolutely any values at all provided that they allow you to uniquely identify each student Student IDs are recommended To add identifiers Click Upload identifier list Manage SLORSME Sener Enter your identifiers student There are 0 student identifiers defined for this course 0 are currently associated with students 0 have not yet been associated ids here 1 per line Can copy
8. ions 2 ACCESS TO PEERWISE Instructors PeerWise is free to both instructors and students The first time you use PeerWise you must create an instructor account http peerwise cs auckland ac nz join PeerWise a i Please join us 2 FA g Please tell us a little about yourself so that we can get you started My new instructor account With an instructor account you can easily create new repositories on PeerWise for students at your institution or school Managing student access is straightforward and you can monitor student activity at any time Please let us know who you are where you teach and how we can get in contact with you We will send you a personalised email as soon as your account is ready to go Who you are Your name Where you teach Request instructor account Institution school How we can camact you Work email Once you submit this information we will send you a short email to confirm that we can contact you We will then contact you personally with details of your new instructor account Enter your name and UNB email and University of New Brunswick as the institution name Press Request Instructor Account You will be emailed a verification code which you can copy and paste onto the next screen Code from the email Yes got the email Your account will be created and details will be emailed to you within 1 2 days 3 STEP BY STEP EXAMPLE 1A Login to the UNB
9. ministrator into the identifier field on the left A new user can then create an account using this identifier or an existing user can log in and join the course using this identifier and they will then have administrator access fo fhis course Create new administrator identifier 7D Click Create new administrator identifier 7E Provide the instructor with the same instructions you gave the students in your course However they will need to enter the identifier that you just created for them rather than what the students were asked to use student numbers 8A Your course is setup Students can begin posing and responding to questions using PeerWise 9A Moderate your course There may be too many questions to follow them all You may just want to track total participation 9B Click Administration H g 2 R View leaderboards View my badges Provide feedback Administration 9C Click Display participation summary 9D View the total number of questions answers and comments by each student 9E Click view next to any students name to view the actual questions written by the student 9F Click Administration to go back to the Administration tab PeerWise User Guide page 7 ofn printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08 4 QUICK TIPS Assessment The PeerWise website suggests motivating your students to use the program by assigning a participation mark betwee
10. n 2 5 They suggest requiring students to author 1 2 questions and respond to 20 questions Of course this will depend on your class size Requiring your students to author too many questions may result in lower quality questions Badging PeerWise has a badging system with three levels of badges basic standard and elite Students earn badges for writing questions responding to questions commenting on questions providing feedback helping to improve answers to questions among other things Requiring students to acquire a number of badges from each of the three levels can also be included in a participation mark but may also be intrinsically motivating to the student PeerWise User Guide page 8ofn printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08
11. own tags 6D Click Update tags for this course to save your tags 6E Click Administration from the breadcrumbs bar at the top of the page Home Main menu gt Administration gt 7A Provide an instructor with administrator access to your course Make sure you are in the Administration area Under Students click Display user list for this course Students gt gt gt Display participation summary gt gt gt View scores of all students gt gt gt View badges earned by students gt gt gt Show users in leaderboard tables gt gt gt Display user list for this course gt gt gt Reset user password 7B Students that have claimed an identifier as well as current administrators and their identifiers will be displayed Click Edit administrator identifiers PeerWise User Guide page 6 of n printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08 Administrators Students Edit administrator identifiers Edit student identifiers Administrator username Unclaimed Student username Unclaimed identifier identifiers identifier identifiers emily emily eatkinso 300 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 7C Enter the identifier into the box This should not be the same as a student s identifier 4 To grant another user administrator access to this course Identifier Simply enter any unique identifier for this new ad
12. rse Welcome to PeerWise for the University of New Brunswick Already joined Welcome back username password Forgotten your password Get a new one Forgotten your username Recover it Like to join Please register Registration is very simple W Follow peerwise 2B Choose a course name PeerWise recommends that you include the term and semester in the name for easy reference if using PeerWise again in the future course name SS The course name should be fewer than 50 characters You do not need to include the institution in the name of the course It is recommended to include term semester and year in the course name eg CompSci 101 Term 1 2010 e g Introduction to Biology Semester 2 2010 2C Click Preview new course Home Create new course Create new course confirm You are about to create the following PeerWise course repository Coursename Instructional Tech Lab Demo Institution University of New Brunswick Course creator emily Is this correct Yes create this course No would like to change the name of the course No take me back to the Home menu 2D The course name institution and course creator will be displayed If everything is correct click Yes create this course PeerWise User Guide printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM page 2 of n Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08 3A Upload student ident
13. seeatssessescenseas 7 Quick Tips This document complements 6 other components available through the Instructional Technology Lab at UNB They include 1 a simple online Demo of PeerWise in use from a student perspective and 2 a guide for using the demo 3 a checklist for integrating PeerWise into your course 4 instructions for formulating quality questions 5 suggestions for assessment and frequency of use 6 rationale for using PeerWise Instructional Technologies Lab Center for Enhanced Teaching and Learning Room 249 Marshall d Avray Hall 1 INTRODUCING PEERWISE PeerWise is a free web based multiple choice question repository where students develop questions pertaining to course content Students create questions with up to 5 plausible answers and provide explanations for the correct answer The questions can include text equations graphs chemical formulae and images Students also answer questions submitted by others Once they have done so they see which answer option is listed as correct the distribution of the responses contributed to date and an explanation of the answer Additionally students can request help from the author of a question rate the question for difficulty and quality and comment on the question Only the instructor can see the name of the author of questions or comments to allow the option of intervening if anything inappropriate is posted The instructor does not edit correct or comment on the quest
14. te identifier list and prompt 3B Click 3C Confirmation that the identifiers have been added will be displayed This should be the same as the number of students in your course Manage student identifiers There are 201 student identifiers defined for this course 0 are currently associated with students 201 have not yet been associated PeerWise User Guide page 3 of n printed 2013 Nov 13 3 55 PM Created 2013 Oct 01 Updated 2013 Oct 82013 Oct 082013 Oct 082013 Oct 08 3D Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Home menu Your course will now be displayed under the heading Active Courses Note the Course ID that you will need to provide to students Your courses Active courses you are currently a member of the following courses simply select a course to begin Instructional Tech Lab Demo admin Course ID 8154 4A Provide your students with instructions for accessing your PeerWise course Click your course name Your courses Active courses you are currently a member of the following courses simply select a course to begin Instructional Tech Lab Demo admin Course ID 8154 4B At the bottom of the page you will find links to different areas of PeerWise Click Administration 2 4 amp View leaderboards View my badges Provide feedback Administration 4C You will see three columns Students Questions and Course Under Course click View instructions for students di Course gt
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