2. What is peerScholar?
Online peer evaluation tool that helps develop your creative and critical thinking skills
peerScholar is an online pedagogical tool that helps you develop your critical and creative thinking skills through a peer evaluation process.

3. 3 Stages: How does it work? Writing Evaluation Reflection
It facilitates this through a series of 3 stages: 1. writing 2. evaluating 3. reflecting
In Phase 1: Writing When you login, you will be presented with an assignment and instructions for completing that assignment . You will be required to complete that assignment within the time provided by your instructor.
Phase 2: Evaluating Once the writing phase is complete, you can begin phase 2. The first time you log into peerScholar within Phase 2, you will see your own submissions presented alongside those of a set number of their peers (the number of submissions presented is determined by your instructor) . These peer submissions are anonymous. During the evaluation phase, you must review your peers’ work and provide them with an evaluation and some critical feedback.
Phase 3: Reflecting As soon as the evaluation phase closes, you can can log back into peerScholar and immediately receive your peers’ evaluations and written feedback. 3

4. Supporting Browsers for peerScholar
Firefox
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer is NOT supported
Your professor will go over more detailed instructions on your actual assignment but for now, I am going to walk you through the registration process. First thing to note is that peerScholar is supported on google chrome and firefox. It is not available on internet explorer so make sure to go to one of the first two.

5. peerScholar Registration
Go to
Select Student under Register
Once you have gone into google chrome or firefox, you are going to want to visit the peerscholar site at From here you will see a registration tab for students. Click on that tab.

6. peerScholar Registration
Select whether or not you have an access code and click ‘next’
If you have purchased your access code at the bookstore, then select yes, I have an access code. If not, then you can click no, I do not have an access code and you will be able to purchase it online.

7. peerScholar Registration
Review the privacy policy and click
I Accept if you agree
Review the privacy policy and click I accept if you agree

8. peerScholar Registration
Create your Username and Password and enter your Access Code. If you already have an existing Pearson account, enter in your existing
Login.
From there, you will be prompted to enter a username and ID. If you already have an account with Pearson from using one of our mylabs then click yes, and you will be able to register using the same username and password (note: you will still need your own code). If you do not, then select the username and password you would like to use for future logins.

9. peerScholar Registration
Enter in your Personal Information
Fill in the information on the following screen and submit.

10. peerScholar - Logging in
Return to
After you are registered, you will go to the same URL each time you login in and click sign in

11. peerScholar – Logging In
Enter the username and password you just created
Enter the same username and password you created when registering.

12. peerScholar - Joining Your Instructor’s Course
You are now registered for peerScholar, but you still need to join your instructor’s class. To do this click on ‘Join a Class’ in the top left
You will now have to join your instructor’s course. Click on join a class at the top

13. peerScholar - Joining Your Instructor’s Course
Enter your instructor’s class code exactly as provided, then select the checkmark - you are now enrolled in your instructor’s course!
Enter your course ID provided by your Professor. Now you are all set. Simply login within the time frame for your first phase and begin your assignment.

14. Insert class ID here YOUR CLASS ID
Enter your course ID provided by your Professor. Now you are all set. Simply login within the time frame for your first phase and begin your assignment.