PeerAssessment.com vs TEAMMATES

PeerAssessment.com helps instructors assess participation and contribution within student teams. It supports individual accountability, instructor monitoring of team dynamics and peer feedback intended to help students develop team skills. Instructors can customize questions, organize teams, run iterative assessments and extend assessment periods. The platform creates a grading spreadsheet and sends students personalized peer and team feedback. It supports face-to-face, hybrid and online classes; instructors can import student lists from Canvas or Blackboard exports, add co-instructors with equal access, and include teaching assistants whose names are hidden from students. Assessment data can be downloaded for analysis or research. A free trial covers one class, one term, one instructor, up to 100 students and up to 12 assessments. Regular class units cost $18.00 to $25, paid once, depending on purchase quantity; each covers up to 12 assessments, and classes over 100 students require two units. The product is made by Hot Rocks Consulting L.L.C., owned by Rob Anson. Listed platforms are Android, iOS and web.

TEAMMATES is a web-based peer feedback management system for instructors seeking flexibility beyond their main learning management system. Instructors and students are its intended users, and the project describes the system as highly configurable, including for pedagogical research into peer feedback mechanisms. The service is hosted on Google App Engine and is a joint effort supported by the National University of Singapore School of Computing.

The Free plan costs nothing. The team says it will provide the service free for as long as it can, but may change or end it at its discretion. Its terms say the team will try to protect user data while advising against storing information users want to keep confidential. The service is provided without warranty, and users are responsible for risks arising from use. The features page describes a workflow, but its diagrams appear as images without accompanying text. The listed platform is web.