Student Peer Review vs WebPA

Student Peer Review is a web-based assessment tool that uses peer learning and artificial intelligence to assess students, gauge understanding, and support learning of curricular concepts with less teacher clerical work. Instructors can build essays, videos, graphics, or multiple-choice assessments. AI content generation covers assessments, quizzes, questions, rubrics, passages, and sample answers; the site also describes using ChatGPT to help instructors create assessments. Listed instructor tools include controlling an AI robot, limiting student use of selected AI tools, collaboratively measuring individual results, and locating misunderstood concepts. The stated audiences range from K-12 schools and colleges to trade schools, businesses, corporations, and government organizations. The Free plan is free and covers one course, 50 students, and 10 assessments for six months, with unlimited features and no credit card. AI Subscription costs $3 a month, with 600,000 generated words and no expiration; a separate AI trial is available for 30 days with 10,000 words. Annual plans cost $8 a year and $25 a year.

WebPA is an open-source, self-hosted web system for peer and self-assessment in higher-education group work. It combines peer assessments, self-assessments, and a group mark to calculate individual grades, with rubric scoring and moderation tools. Administrators download the application and configure a local instance, database credentials, and environment variables. The latest version lists PHP 7.4 or 8.0 with MySQLi, Sessions, and XML extensions enabled; Composer and the repository release page provide download routes. Standard installation does not include LTI support, but a separate connector can link WebPA with LTI-compliant environments such as Blackboard Learn, WebCT, and Moodle. Where services are available, it can synchronize memberships, groups, grades, outcomes, settings, enrolments, and timestamps; Moodle and Canvas membership and group services can use their APIs. WebPA is free and licensed under GNU GPL version 3. Loughborough support has ended, with archived documentation on GitHub and community support directed to the JISC mailing list.