Submitting your presentation

In the activity which follows, you will submit your second piece of research for peer review. You have the chance to learn from others and engage in conversation about major engineering projects.

As in Week 3, this activity gives you the opportunity to review the work of another learner, with the assistance of an assessment criteria. Peer assessment gives you greater insight into what the assessment criteria actually require. It also develops evaluative skills, which are useful in employment and in lifelong learning.

Through peer assessment, you have the opportunity to engage with another peer in a meaningful way and help them develop their knowledge and understanding of a topic. Likewise, you are also likely to enhance your own learning through the peer review process.

The peer review process is designed to be informative and constructive. You should consider the type of feedback you would hope to receive on your work when writing feedback for other learners. Pay attention to the assessment criteria and the work you are reviewing and try to provide a fair assessment of the work. You'll also be asked to justify your feedback.

Creating and submitting your presentation

Your presentation is your opportunity to share your learning with others. You can choose to be creative in designing your presentation and showcase your learning to your peers.

You can create your presentation in a programme of your choice such as Microsoft Office, Keynote or Prezi. You should follow the criteria given about what to include in each of your slides. Once you are happy with your slides you need to save these as a PDF document to be uploaded for peer review. To do this, make sure that when you save a copy of your work you select the PDF format.

Avoid animating your presentation, because this may affect the words on your slides when you save as a PDF.

There are three steps involved in the peer review process:

1. Your assignment

You will first produce your own presentation slides. You will upload this as a PDF document on the 'My submission' page. You will be asked to give your presentation submission a title. You are advised to save a copy of your work elsewhere for future reference. You have the option to save a draft copy of your work and preview the text before submission.

2. Reviewing your peer's work

After submitting your work, you will be presented with another learner’s assignment to mark. If your peers have not yet submitted their work you may need to return to this step once there is work for you to review. You will be presented with your peer's work and the assessment criteria. You are asked to grade their work using the criteria listed. You also have the option to leave comments for the learner. Remember that your comments should be designed to be constructive and guide the learner in making improvements to their work.

3. Your review

Once your work has been reviewed by a peer you will be notified by email that a review is ready for you to read.

Coming up...

In the next section you will begin your peer review activity.