Buddycheck: Staff Guide

Buddycheck is a tool for peer evaluation of group work contribution. Evaluations are created in the Buddycheck system and when the group work is done, students complete the evaluation, scoring their own and their peer’s contribution to group work.  Buddycheck then calculates an adjustment factor from the students’ responses. This can be used to update a mark awarded to students for any group assessment marked via Minerva.

Buddycheck is integrated with Minerva and both staff and students must access the tool via their Minerva modules. We are piloting this tool until early September 2022.

• What do students see when you click ‘release results’?
• Can I edit an evaluation?
• Can students see what score another student gave them?
• Can students see the Buddycheck labels?
• Can I review grades before I publish them to Minerva?
• How do I sync group sets/student information?
• What is the Adjustment Factor? 

Buddycheck have a number of video demonstrations available.

Please note: In some of these videos, Buddycheck is accessed via a different VLE so before Buddycheck launches, the experience will be slightly different. We have some settings disabled at Leeds. For example, it is not possible for students to send peer messages via Buddycheck.

Video demos (All in Vimeo)

• Create evaluation as instructor
• Review results as instructor
• Advanced features (e.g. import questions from another assessment, automatic reminder, automatic lock feature, reliability feature).
• Publish grades to VLE (e.g. Minerva)
• Complete evaluation as student – this screencast begins in Canvas VLE and therefore is not recommended for distribution to students. Staff may find it useful to see what the Buddycheck evaluation looks like from the student perspective (view the video from 16 seconds).

Other Guides

• Adjustment Factor Calculations (Restricted to staff only. Please LOGIN to the IT site to get access).