Quickstart Guide
Getting Started with Peerceptiv
The document is a quickstart guide explaining how to access and use Peerceptiv through UVA Canvas. It outlines key features such as peer and self-assessment, live presentation review, team member evaluation, rubric building, and group formation, and describes how these tools support structured, rubric-based feedback. The guide also highlights integration steps, and support resources, additional materials like webinars, videos, and white papers to help instructors get started.
Account Login
All Peerceptiv assignments must be launched through UVACanvas
What is Peerceptiv?
Peerceptiv is an online tool that allows for peer review, peer assessment, team member evaluation, group formation and live presentations.
How can Peerceptiv enhance teaching and learning?
Peerceptiv is a research-validated peer assessment platform that enhances teaching and learning by facilitating anonymized peer review, feedback loops, and grading calibration. It transforms passive submission into an active evaluative process, allowing students to internalize course standards by reviewing their peers' work against rubrics. Peerceptiv can be used for various assignment types, including writing, presentations, and team member evaluations.
Engage
Activates learning through structured peer review that builds evaluative judgment, accountability, and community.
Enhance
Elevates performance with real-time, rubric-based feedback during live presentations, strengthening clarity, professional communication skills.
Extend
Connects coursework to authentic collaboration, industry standards, and ongoing professional dialogue.
Key Features
Group Formation
Peerceptiv's Group formation feature allows faculty to create optimized student groups. By utilizing customizable questions and criteria within surveys, students can enter their schedules, learning interests, experiences, and rank topic preferences. The platform will automatically analyze student responses to form teams that maximize compatibility, and instructors can review, edit, and adjust groups as needed.
Why Use This?
Thoughtfully formed teams provide a stronger foundation for collaboration by reducing common group challenges and creating more equitable learning experiences. Automated group formation saves instructors time while allowing them to intentionally build teams that support diverse perspectives, balanced participation, and meaningful peer learning.
Team Member Evaluation
Throughout or at the conclusion of a group assignment, students can evaluate their teammates' contributions using customizable rubrics and rating criteria. Evaluations can measure factors such as participation, communication, reliability, quality of work, and collaboration. Peerceptiv aggregates this feedback into reports that help instructors identify individual contributions, recognize effective teamwork, and address participation concerns. Furthermore, instructors can provide students with actionable feedback to strengthen their collaboration skills for future tasks.
Why Use This?
Team member evaluations promote individual accountability while encouraging students to reflect on the qualities of effective collaboration. By incorporating structured peer feedback into group work, instructors gain greater insight into team dynamics and contributions that may not be visible through the final product alone.
Peer & Self Assessment
Students review and provide feedback on each other's work using customizable rubrics. Through this process, they engage in continuous cycles of giving and receiving feedback, moving beyond one-time grading events. Students can track their progress over multiple review cycles, building evaluative judgment and feedback literacy that transfers to authentic collaborative contexts beyond the classroom.
Individual Peer Assessment Assignments
Group Peer Assessment Assignments
Why Use This?
By engaging students as peer reviewers, you free up instructor time for higher-order interventions while students develop critical evaluative judgment, metacognition, and feedback literacy through authentic practice. The platform transforms assessment from a one-way, end-of-cycle event into an ongoing dialogue that mirrors real-world collaborative work, preparing students to give feedback, act on it, and internalize standards of excellence they'll carry into their careers.
Live Presentations
This tool enables you to facilitate real-time, rubric-based peer review during in-class or virtual presentations. You design the evaluation criteria, such as delivery, clarity, content knowledge, and engagement, and your students provide structured feedback as they watch their peers present. This transforms your audience from passive observers into active participants, and you receive aggregated data on student performance while presenters gain immediate, actionable insights from multiple perspectives.
Why Use This?
It builds professional communication skills that students need beyond the classroom. By receiving just-in-time feedback on their delivery and presence, students can immediately refine their performance for future presentations. This feature also keeps audiences engaged and accountable, turning every presentation into a collaborative learning opportunity that mirrors real-world professional settings where peer feedback shapes performance and growth.
