{"id":7077,"date":"2019-11-20T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/?page_id=7077"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:33:27","slug":"setting-up-peerscholar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/other-edtech\/peerscholar\/setting-up-peerscholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Set up peerScholar in Your Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class='content-column one_third'><div id=\"bellows-main-peerscholar\" class=\"bellows bellows-nojs bellows-main bellows-source-menu bellows-align-left bellows-skin-vanilla bellows-type- bellows-expand-current\"><ul id=\"menu-peerscholar\" class=\"bellows-nav\" data-bellows-config=\"main\"><li id=\"menu-item-15551\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-home bellows-menu-item-has-children bellows-menu-item-15551 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class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Set up peerScholar in Brightspace<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14541\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-14541 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/other-edtech\/peerscholar\/creating-a-classic-activity\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Creating a Classic Activity<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14539\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-14539 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/other-edtech\/peerscholar\/creating-a-case-study-activity\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Creating a Case Study Activity<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14537\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-14537 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/other-edtech\/peerscholar\/facilitating-in-peerscholar\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Facilitating in peerScholar<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14533\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-14533 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/other-edtech\/peerscholar\/grading-in-peerscholar\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Grading in peerScholar<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14535\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-14535 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/other-edtech\/peerscholar\/configuring-peerscholar-grading\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Configuring peerScholar Grading<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div> <div class='content-column two_third last_column'><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Set up peerScholar in Your Brightspace Course<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A link to peerScholar can be created directly in the Content area of your Brightspace course site. Instructors, teaching assistants, and students will then use this link to access the peerScholar activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can add a link to a peerScholar activity to a content module. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the <strong>Content<\/strong> area of your course, select the module where you want to create a peerScholar activity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the <strong>Existing Activities<\/strong> dropdown menu and select <strong>External Learning Tools<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select <strong>peerScholar<\/strong> from the menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/files\/2019\/11\/peerScholar-ExistingActivities-1.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is peerScholar-ExistingActivities-1.png\" style=\"width:168px;height:302px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also create a link on a content page &#8211; this is useful if you have more than one peer review assignment in the course, or if you have a different page for each phase of the peer review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In your Brightspace course site, go to <strong>Content<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select a module. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the HTML page where you want to create a peerScholar activity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the page, highlight the text you want for the link.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the <strong>Insert Quicklink<\/strong> icon in the tools menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/files\/2019\/11\/InsertQuicklink.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is InsertQuicklink.png\" style=\"width:156px;height:58px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ol start=\"6\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click <strong>External Learning Tools<\/strong> from the Insert Quicklink dropdown menu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>peerScholar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/files\/2019\/11\/peerScholar-InsertQuicklink.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is peerScholar-InsertQuicklink.png\" style=\"width:338px;height:364px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d9f0fe\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: The first time you click the peerScholar link, you will associate the new activity that you are creating with the link. You do not have to complete the activity setup at this time. When you click the link after the initial association, you can edit and finish the setup, or manage the activity.<\/p><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"parent":6017,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7077","page","type-page","status-publish"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36033,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7077\/revisions\/36033"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}