Your instructor may require you to submit a peer review of another student's discussion reply. To complete the peer review, you must review the student's discussion reply and add a comment in the comment sidebar.
If your instructor includes a rubric, which is a pre-determined outline of how an assignment is graded, you must assign a grade using the rubric. However, your instructor may also ask you to leave a comment in the comment sidebar.
Discussion peer reviews cannot be anonymous.
Learn how to see if have been assigned a peer review discussion.
If your discussion looks different than what is displayed in this lesson, your instructor may be using Discussions Redesign in your course. Learn how to submit a peer review to a discussion in Discussions Redesign.
Note: Peer reviews can only be completed in the web version of Canvas.
Open Discussions
In Course Navigation, click the Discussions link.
Note: You can also access your Discussions through your user or course dashboard, Assignments, the Syllabus, Gradebook, Calendar, or Modules.
Complete Rubric
If the assignment has a rubric attached, you are only required to complete the attached rubric for the peer review to be considered finished. To view the rubric, click the Show Rubric link [1] and enter a score for each criterion in the Points column [2]. Each rubric score will create the total points for the assignment [3].
When you're finished, click the Save Comment button [4].