It is common that instructors want to manually determine which learners will be assigned to review each other in the peer review activity. In Eduflow, you can't directly specify which learners review each other, but you can control it using tags.

The idea is that you create a set of tags in your course, and assign tags to learners. In the peer review activity you specify either that learners should only review other learners with the same tags or only those with different tags.

In the peer review activity you can choose to use "Custom allocation" which will allow you to specify rules for how learners are allocated to review each other.

To explain the different ways to allocate learners this way we will use a few examples of how it can be set up for different use-cases.

You have learners Alice, Bob, Charlie, Diana, Emily and Ferdinand. You want to ensure that Alice, Bob and Charlie review each other, and that Diana, Emily and Ferdinand review each other.

To achieve this, create two tags "Tag 1" and "Tag 2". Assign "Tag 1" to Alice, Bob and Charlie. Assign "Tag 2" to Diana, Emily and Ferdinand. In the peer review activity, set up the custom allocation like this:

You have learners Alice, Bob, Charlie, Diana, Emily and Ferdinand. Alice, Bob and Charlie wrote a paper about Science and Diana, Emily and Ferdinand wrote a paper about History. You don't want ensure that your learners review submissions about something else than their own topic.

To achieve this tag learners with their topic (you can do this manually, or you can use a "Select a Tag" activity). Then specify that learners should not be allowed to review other with the same tags.

This is a slightly more complex example.

You have learners Alice, Bob, Charlie, Diana, Emily, Ferdinand, George, Hannibal, Ian, Joe and Kate. The learners are working on different topics:

You want each learner to peer review 2 submissions. You don't want them to review anything in the same topic as their own. You also don't want them to review multiple things from the same topic.

To achieve this, you have to set up the custom rules a bit more manually. One way to achieve it is to create the following tags:

and then set up the peer review like this:

The first rule ensures that learners are not allowed to review other learners with the same topic. The second rule (which is the complex one) ensures that learner are not allocated to two peers writing about the same topic.

If you read this far and can't figure out how to set up tags to solve your specific situation, reach out on support. Maybe we can help and then it can become a new example or maybe it can't be set up exactly how you want it to be but then we can offer an alternative strategy.