Stop automatically assigning 2 peer reviews from 1 group

[gklowden]

Hello, I automatically assigned peer reviews for a group project. Students were to peer review 5 other group's submissions. Unfortunately, students received more than 1 peer review from the same group (not their own group but 2 from a different group). In other words, if the student was in group 1, they should get 5 peer reviews from 5 other groups (e.g. groups 2-6). However, they were not assigned reviews for other groups but instead were assigned peer reviews from individual students, some of which are in the same group. In other words, they receive peer reviews for student A, B, C, D, and E but student A and D are in the same group and student B and C are in the same group so they really only have 3 unique reviews.

I have reviewed the settings and do not see any way to prevent this. When I student alerts me of this error, I end up having to manually figure out what groups each student review they received belongs to and then manually assign them a review from a different group. This has created an insane amount of work. I may as well have just assigned them all manually.

Thank you for your assistance.

[bsr]

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Okay, I'm dating myself here, but has this issue been addressed? Does anyone have a work-around or a trick that would make manual assignment feasible for a group assignment in a large class? Or make the automatic assignment feature work?

I've been looking at adding a peer review component to a group assignment in my class, because it's the right thing to do pedagogically, but the more I read about peer review of group assignments, the less feasible it appears to be with the current system. If you have 130 students in groups of 4, the prospect of figuring out a peer review assignment scheme manually is prohibitive. But if the automatic system doesn't recognize that submissions from the same group are the same submission, it just won't work for assigning two (or more) unique peer reviews. Add to that the issues with peer review deadlines, and sound pedagogy is looking like self immolation. Yet again. 

[carlinjm]

To get around this limitation, I plan on assigning twice the number of peer reviews that must be completed and instructing the student to peer review 2 different group submissions.  In my case, I have 20 groups of 4 or 5 students.  Since I want each student to peer review 2 group projects, I will assign them 4 group projects, and the students will select 2 different ones from that group.  I still have the unlikely possibility of a single student being assigned 4 of the same group, but I can live with that.