Documentation:IPeer/Uses and Benefits

Uses and Benefits

• Rubric-based evaluations
  • Guides students of what is expected
  • Clearly breaks down grading scheme
  • Reduces the workload for everyone
• Quick feedback for students
• Easy management of evaluations for instructors
  • Instructors will more likely encourage peer evaluations

Students form the majority of users of iPeer. They have the most limited amount of possible operations. Students are only allowed to submit evaluation assignments and edit their own profiles

Instructors form the second largest user group. Instructors have the added ability to:

• edit courses
• add/edit/copy students
• add/edit/copy groups
• create/edit/copy evaluation formats
• add/edit/copy evaluation assignments
• email groups

Note: Instructors are only allowed to modify information related to their courses.

Administrators form the smallest user group. An administrator has instructor capabilities (see above) for all courses and users. The administrator also has the very dangerous ability to delete information, which can cause data inconsistency (this is discussed in more detail for each individual section). There is also a super admin account that is used for administration of administrators. Administrators should pay careful attention to the administrator notes of this manual as it is very easy to cause database inconsistencies with the powerful delete/remove command.