Comparing ways of distributing peer evaluations, after student presentations in class or online.

This paper discusses and compares three ways students can give and receive peer feedback following oral presentations in university language courses. All have been used in the author’s classes, both in the physical classroom and online in classes held on Zoom. Students used their mobile devices or laptops to give their evaluations. Having students give each other feedback proved a useful way of keeping non-presenters active, as well as making sure presenters received useful feedback from as many viewers as possible. The three methods discussed are: 1. PeerEval; 2. Moxtra; and 3. Google Forms/Sheets. Each was successful, and received positive assessments from the students afterwards, but each was especially good in different ways. Broadly, the first is the most immediate and perhaps ‘fun’; the second is aimed at hosting online presentations and giving and receiving feedback on those presentations within the software itself; while the third was best for in-depth feedback, and was the most popular overall among students, although it required more setting up and organization afterwards from the teacher.