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Do all group members in a peer-reviewed group assignment receive feedback from *all* reviewers (regardless of the specific individual pairings)?

JRMitchell
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In my understanding, Canvas only allows peer reviews to be assigned from one individual reviewer to another individual student. However, for group assignments this is often not what's needed. For group assignments, there is only one submission per group, so it only makes sense for reviewers to review the group as a whole (not individual members of the group). I'm guessing there's a workaround (which I need to confirm; I'll elaborate in the next paragraph). Lets say I have two groups (group A and group B) each with three students. What I need is for every member of group A to review group B's work (as a whole), and then for every member of group B to receive the feedback from every reviewer (i.e. every member of group B should be able to see three sets of feedback, one from each member of group A).

The workaround: I'm not totally sure how peer feedback is distributed to group members in a group assignment, but I would expect (and hope) that feedback would be distributed to all members, just like instructor feedback and grades are. If that's the case, I could just choose one student per group to "receive" the peer feedback, and all members of the group would see the same feedback. So (since canvas only allows individual to individual peer feedback). But I need to confirm: do all members of a group (in a group assignment) receive the peer review feedback that is provided to each member of that group?

If that's not the case - if each member of a group receives feedback from only their own individual reviewer - then the reviewer would have to copy-paste their feedback for each member of the group their reviewing, which would be very cumbersome.

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