API functions to access peer review comments?

[lsloan]

Researchers at the University of Michigan would like to perform AI analysis of the comments left by reviewers in Canvas' Peer Review feature. After browsing through the Canvas API documentation and exploring the Canvas live API, I've not been able to find an API function that will let us access those comments.

Does an API function exist for reading peer review comments?

I've found that the API will show me who has been assigned to review each author's submissions, but I can't find the review comments. The only comments I've been able to access are the submission comments, but those are made by the instructor/TA only, they don't include peer review comments.

[agschmid]

Hello, I'm able to get the peer review comments using the following API call:

<instance>/api/v1/courses/course_id/assignments/assignment_id/peer_reviews?include[]=submission_comments&include[]=user&per_page=100

I have several test users, some of which did a peer review and others did not. The ones who did give a peer review had their comments display under submission_comments, snippet:

	"submission_comments": [
			{
				"id": 39838916,
				"comment": "Peer review comment from osp5",
				"author_id": 5820048,
				"author_name": "OSP Five",
				"created_at": "2022-12-05T19:23:15Z",
				"edited_at": null,
				"avatar_path": "/images/users/5820048-0ae2d77379",
				"author": {
					"id": 5820048,
					"anonymous_id": "3gqs0",
					"display_name": "OSP Five",

[lsloan]

Thank you for the response.

However, when I use that API function, the only comments returned are the submission comments, which are comments entered by the instructor/TA on the submission document(s).

The comments I need are the reviewer (apparently known as "assessor" in Canvas terminology) comments. I've been discussing this with a colleague and he's come across a possible solution: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/rubrics.html#method.rubrics_api.show

That is, the rubrics function with very specific flags…

/api/v1/courses/:course_id/rubrics/:id?include[]=peer_assessments&style=full

The specific combination of `include[]` and `style` flags may be what I have been missing. I will investigate further and give an update soon.

[agschmid]

If you try the call out, you will see it does show the assessor's comments. Here is the full json returned for that user (with some items removed):

osp2 is the student who submitted while osp5 is the student who did the peer review

Notice "comment": "Peer review comment from osp5",

You should be able top reproduce this with a test course and test users

	{
		"id": 952830,
		"user_id": 4578824,
		"asset_id": 315900095,
		"asset_type": "Submission",
		"workflow_state": "completed",
		"assessor_id": 5820048,
		"user": {
			"id": 4578824,
			"anonymous_id": "2q51k",
			"display_name": "OSP Two",
			"avatar_image_url": "REMOVED",
			"html_url": "REMOVED",
			"pronouns": null
		},
		"assessor": {
			"id": 5820048,
			"anonymous_id": "3gqs0",
			"display_name": "OSP Five",
			"avatar_image_url": "REMOVED",
			"html_url": "REMOVED",
			"pronouns": null
		},
		"submission_comments": [
			{
				"id": 39838916,
				"comment": "Peer review comment from osp5",
				"author_id": 5820048,
				"author_name": "OSP Five",
				"created_at": "2022-12-05T19:23:15Z",
				"edited_at": null,
				"avatar_path": "/images/users/5820048-0ae2d77379",
				"author": {
					"id": 5820048,
					"anonymous_id": "3gqs0",
					"display_name": "OSP Five",
					"avatar_image_url": "REMOVED",
					"html_url": "REMOVED",
					"pronouns": null
				}
			}
		]
	}