Overview

Designed to facilitate collaborative peer-to-peer feedback activities in both online and in-person sessions, Falmouth University's Peer-review Pinboard template is designed in a simple pin-board style.

Contents

How it works

The template is fully editable and consists of ‘review zones’ each containing a space for a student to share their work and a space for another student (or students) to leave feedback. 

Students are asked to add content directly onto the canvas (including links to documents or media that might be hosted elsewhere) and to leave written feedback for a peer, or peers. Making use of the ‘Outline’ function, students and staff alike can quickly and easily navigate between review zones, making this template suitable for both synchronous and asynchronous peer review activities.

There's also a Reflection activity that you may wish to use to help students consolidate their learning.

Accessing the template

While our template can be accessed via the MURAL website, there is a copy of the template in each workspace in MURAL.


To access the Peer-Review pinboard template follow the steps below.

  1. Log into MURAL with your university log in details.
  2. In your Workspace, click the 'Templates' link in the left-hand navigation menu.
  3. Three options will appear in the Templates area: 'Mural templates', '[Workspace name] Modules templates' and 'Starred templates.MURAL Templates view
  4. Click the '[Workspace name] Modules templates' link and the Peer-Review pinboard template will be visible.
  5. Click on the template and in the 'New mural from template' dialog that appears, select the Room where you would like to add a copy of the template to from the drop-down men and then click 'Create mural'.
    New mural from template dialog box
  6. The mural will then be avail in the specified Room for use.  

Editing the template

The step-by-step video guide below features everything you need to know to edit the MURAL template and covers:

Before you start

This template was made to satisfy a specific brief and while it can (and has) been edited to suit a range of peer review activities, it's important to evaluate whether it's more time effective for you to edit an existing template or make your own bespoke mural from scratch.

Remember, effective murals don't have to be colourful or complex.  In fact, the simpler the better, especially when using MURAL with students who are new to the tool.  So while we welcome your use of our template, we encourage you to continue to use MURAL in the most effective way for you and your students.

Mural help

If you have 'how to' questions about MURAL, please use the MURAL Help Centre.  MURAL's own help guides are clear and succinct and can be relied upon to answer your 'how to' query.

Question mark iconFurther Support

For further support on Learning Space, or to report any issues with this guide, please get in touch with the Digital Learning Team via dlsupport@falmouth.ac.uk. Alternatively, please refer to the numerous help guides found on our Knowledge Base. 

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