These are instructions for setting up peer evaluations for a senior project team using the PeerEval tool in myCourses.

The first step is getting the widget onto your course's homepage.

1. Go to the myCourses specific site for the senior project. You will find this in the regular Courses section on the myCourses landing page that you get to when you login. This is not the Commuities section that holds the SE Senior Project myCourses community site.
2. On the top navigation bar, select Edit Course.
3. Select Homepages from the list of tools.
4. If you have not done anything to the course's homepage, you will see the "Default homepage for courses". Select the copy action so that you have a copy of the default homepage that you can edit.
5. Select the newly copied homepage, or an existing one that you already created.
6. You might want to make the name of the homepage a bit more descriptive.
7. Decide where you want to put the Peer Eval widget on the homepage. Click the Add Widgets button in the section where you want to place the Peer Eval widget, find the tool, select it, and save the modification.
8. If not already the active homepage, in the dropdown menu under Active Homepage, select this homepage and click Apply.
9. Go to the Course Home and make sure everything looks OK.

The next step is to create a group for the team.

1. Select Groups from the top navigation menu, and then New Category.
2. Make up a name for the category, such as, Project Teams. Under Enrollment Type select # of Groups. Enter 1 for Number of Groups. Save this to create the group.
3. Click on Group 1, and change the group's name to the team name. Save this change.

The last step is creating an evaluation for the students to complete.

1. Select the PeerEval tool from your senior project section's myCourses homepage.
2. Select Create Evaluation.
3. Give the evaluation a title. Select the Group Category that you created in the previous step.
4. Set an end date, if you would like.
5. Select Advanced Options
   1. Allow students to evaluate themselves. Decide if you want students to be able to edit their responses up until the evaluation ends.
   2. Decide if you want students to directly see evaluation information. If you will, make sure to inform students that this will happen. You can also hide this from the students, and provide the comments in messages sent to each student.
6. In place of the standard text for Instructions for Likert Scale Questions, insert the following text:

   Use the rubric at <a target=new href="http://www.se.rit.edu/~swen-561/Evaluation-Rubrics/PeerEvaluationRubric.html">http://www.se.rit.edu/~swen-561/Evaluation-Rubrics/PeerEvaluationRubric.html</a> for the definition of each question's scale.

7. Use Add A Template to add questions from the Software Engineering - Senior Project Evaluation template.
8. Save the evaluation.

Inform the students about the evaluation. You can come back to the tool to see the results.