Buddycheck - Group Member Evaluation

Buddycheck is simple to set up and uses a peer evaluation tool which allows students to evaluate each team member’s performance in a group activity, as well as perform a self-assessment. The instructor can create any number of performance criteria or select from a number of samples. Students are awarded an average score (excluding or including their self-score), or have a calculated adjustment factor applied to their final group assessment mark. Students will receive feedback on the group dynamic and their own performance against the group average.

Buddycheck utilises the research-based CATME framework for peer evaluation in groups.

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On this guide:

Activity Creation

• Before you start - create your groups
• Add Buddycheck to your Delivery Space
• Create an Evaluation
• Add Evaluation Questions
• Important Step - Refresh Group Enrolment Details

Manage Activity

• Monitor and Manage Student Evaluations
• Send Results to the Gradebook
• Release Feedback to students

Watch the video below to learn how to set up a Buddycheck evaluation in a delivery space.

 

 

Before you start - create your groups

Before you create a Buddycheck evaluation in a delivery space, you must first create the group category you will use, as it can't be modified after the evaluation has been created. The associated groups, however, don't have to be populated with the student enrolments at this stage, as you can sync the group with Buddycheck as the students are being allocated.

 

Step One: Add Buddycheck to your Delivery Space

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1. Go to Learning Space and click Add Activities.

2. Select External Learning Tools.

3. Locate and select Buddycheck – Group Member Evaluation.

 

4. Once added to the page, click the newly added link, to launch Buddycheck.

5. Make sure you click on Activate Buddycheck for this course before creating an evaluation.

 

Step Two: Create an Evaluation

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You can now create your first evaluation.

1. Click Create Evaluation.

2. Enter an Evaluation title (1) and click Continue (2).
Optionally select a previous evaluation as a template (a).

Enter details

3. Select the group category(s) (1) you wish to include.

4. Then enter the evaluation Start and end dates (2).
Optionally enter a short introduction to the evaluation (a).

 

Step Three: Add Evaluation Questions

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1. You can use the list of default questions (1),

Or, Create question (2) to add a custom one.

• Team question: You answer 5-scale questions about the team as a whole. 
• Peer question: This type of question, scores the student and each group member.

2. Optional - You can turn on the toggle if you would like to add Open questions or Peer messages. 
There is also an option for you to set minimum and maximum adjustment factors under Advanced Options.

3. Once done, select:

• Open preview (1) to preview the evaluation as a student, or
• Create evaluation (2).

4. The evaluation will appear as below.

 

Important Step - Refresh Group Enrolment Details

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Once the group allocations are finalised, or if there are any changes later on, you will need to refresh the activity.

1. Access the evaluation.

2. Click More and then select Sync with course.

3. Select Continue.

 

 

Monitor and Manage Student Evaluations

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1. Once the evaluation starts, you will be able to see the completion progress from the activity page.

2. For more in-depth progress, go to the activity.

• monitor which individuals and groups have completed the task,
• and individual scores have been given and received.

Send an email reminder

In case some students haven't completed their evaluations, you can also send a reminder to their student mailbox.

3. Within the activity, click on More and then Send a reminder.
Follow the prompt to customise email title and texts.

Manage student feedback

4. Tick one or more student's names to modify selected students (1).

5. The manage option (2) will appear.

• Email: email the selected student with the BuddyCheck activity link.
• Reopen: to allow selected students to complete the evaluation if the activity is currently closed, or resubmit their evaluations.
• Clear: to delete the student evaluations.
• Remove: to delete the selected students from the activity. This option can not be undone.

 

 

Send Results to the Gradebook

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Watch our quick demonstration, showing how to release results and publish average grades to the grade book.
NOTE: Submit Avg grades in now Publish Avg grades.

1. Select More and then Publish Avg grades.

2. Select the relevant grade item and submit to gradebook.

3. If succeed, a confirmation message will appear at the top of the page.
You can always go back and re-publish the average grades if there are any changes.

An example of how the Buddycheck score will appear in the gradebook. 

 

Release Feedback to Students

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The steps below are to release all feedback and comments that students received from their peers.
Students can view their feedback within BuddyCheck activity, or via email summary. 

1. Select More and click Release reports. 

2. Follow the prompt to confirm and release the results.