For this assignment you will make the first draft of your Learning Pod/Group’s Interactive Learning Resource available to your classmates for review. Like all assignments in this course it will take the form of a blog post in a WordPress site that belongs to someone in your group. One group member will then submit a link to the blog post to Interactive Learning Resource Peer Review Assignment folder on Brightspace.

Please review the AI policy for this assignment. 

I will provide a sign-up sheet during our Weekly Updates, and you will provide a link to your group’s resource and sign up to give feedback to another group.

During this review, each Learning Pod/Group will act as beta testers for another groups’ Interactive Learning Resource. You will work through the resource as learners and make notes for the group who created the resource so that they may improve the design prior to submitting it. This week is an opportunity for you to provide some substantive formative feedback. You will share a link to your feedback blog post with your instructor as 15% of your final grade. Only one member of your Learning Pod/Group needs to submit the link. You will also need to share a link to your review in the sign up sheet so that the Learning Pod/Group receiving it can access your input.

Your review will not be considered as part of your peers’ grades. Please ensure that your blog posts are accessible to reviewers and not set to private.

Peer Review Guidelines

Provide a thoughtful and constructive review of your peers’ Interactive Learning Resource draft (approx. 500–800 words).

Your review should:

  • Highlight strengths of the design (e.g., clarity, alignment, interaction, accessibility)

  • Identify areas for improvement with specific examples

  • Offer actionable suggestions to help strengthen the resource

Aim to balance supportive feedback with critical insight. Focus on how effectively the resource supports learning, rather than just describing it. A suggested structure might be:

  • Overview (1 paragraph) – What the resource is doing well overall

  • Strengths (1–2 paragraphs) – Specific, evidence-based

  • Areas for improvement (2–3 paragraphs) – With suggestions

  • Final thoughts (optional short paragraph) – Big-picture advice

Notes on Collegiality

Your task in this process is to help your colleagues improve their learning resources. Please ensure that you focus your feedback on the structure of their resource as related to each of the topics that we covered in class. Your task is not to criticize the content that your colleagues have chosen as their topic. This means that you don’t need to be an expert in the content area of the resource in order to help your colleagues improve their resource.

Your notes and critique should focus on aspects of the resource that will be assessed including the clarity of the lesson, appropriate outcomes, alignment, interactivity, inclusivity, technology use and rationale, presentation, citations, etc.), and it must be constructive. Don’t simply say that something is not effective; offer collegial suggestions for improvement.

A good way to ensure that you are being collegial is to ask questions in your review, like the following:

  • Do you have an assessment linked to this outcome?
  • Do you need to cite this idea?
  • In what way is this activity interactive?

You can also use language that indicates that your feedback is based on your particular perspective and experience:

  • It seems to me that…
  • I might have missed something…
  • Correct me if I’m wrong…
  • You might consider…

Note: If English is your first language, remember that some of your colleagues are writing in their second or third language. This is not a course in English grammar and writing. If there is a section that you have difficulty understanding, you can suggest that they work on making it more clear, but if the essential idea is communicated, even if a little awkwardly, then it’s fine.