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  • <p>You can find your peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments in several places.</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> If the peer review is anonymous, the name of the reviewer will not be included in any feedback. </p>
  • <p>Your instructor can assign you to review another student's assignment. You can view peer review notifications in Canvas in the Recent Activity Stream, the To Do list, and from the individual assignment page. Once peer reviews are assigned, you will also be notified via email.</p>
  • Updated on: Sep 11, 2024

    What are Peer Reviews?

  • <p>Crocodoc is a tool that allows annotations on online assignment submissions in Canvas. If Crocodoc has been enabled for your institution, you can use Crocodoc for assignments. You can also use Crocodoc when <a href="../../4212/l/352349?data-resolve-url=true&amp;data-manual-id=4212" data-object-class="article" data-object-uuid="7bcc573f-ab98-4928-a3d5-ad2859a5b2f0" data-object-manual-uuid="2E9743B0-E3D9-012F-D7F0-12313804AAC3" data-resolve-url="true" target="_blank">viewing annotated feedback</a> on assignment submissions. </p> <p>When you open a submission, Crocodoc will automatically save any annotations made to the submission file for one hour. You can restart a Crocodoc session at any time by refreshing the submission page. To help you avoid losing work, Canvas will generate a session expiration warning after 50 minutes. </p> <p>Some browsers may not initially render comments correctly when viewing feedback. If your browser includes a built-in PDF viewer, select the option to view the PDF in the system viewer. You can also download PDF files with comments to view on your computer. The settings required to view or print the annotations in the PDF vary based on the software installed on your computer. </p> <p><strong>Compatible Crocodoc Files</strong></p> <p>If a submission includes a file that can be rendered in Crocodoc, but the submission preview is not complete, Canvas will generate a message stating the document is still processing.</p> <p>If a file is submitted that is not compatible with Crocodoc, the Canvas document previewer will still display the file, but Crocodoc markup and commenting will not be available. </p> <p>Canvas currently supports .doc/.docx, .ppt/.pptx, and .pdf Crocodoc file formats.</p> <p><strong>Notes:</strong></p> <ul><li>Crocodoc is not available in the Canvas beta environment, so Crocodoc documents will never be rendered.</li> <li>Files over 100 MB and password-protected files will not be converted by Crocodoc.</li> <li>Crocodoc annotations can be viewed in the Canvas by Instructure app.</li> <li>Crocodoc annotations cannot be viewed by screen readers; for users with accessibility concerns, please leave feedback in the assignment's comments sidebar.</li> <li>Crocodoc has limitations when used in Firefox. To avoid losing any annotations, click the screen before navigating away from the page, or choose another browser.</li> </ul>
  • <p>You can reply to Conversations messages in your Inbox on your device so you can keep in touch with your course at any time.</p> <p>The images in this lesson are shown for a phone display, but unless otherwise noted, tablet displays mirror the same steps.</p>
  • <p>You can send conversation messages to multiple people in your courses in the app.</p> <p>The images in this lesson are shown for a phone display, but unless otherwise noted, tablet displays mirror the same steps.</p>