@srpearce, since  you're recommending requiring each student to assess more
submissions than each submission is required to receive, would it make
sense to also describe what happens when there are more assessments than
minimally necessary?  E.g. whether students can assess responses that
already have the required number so that they can complete their required
assessments, and then whether those extra assessments are shown to the
student who submitted the response or not, and whether they're included in
the grade calculation or not.  I understand that this logic may change over
time as new features are implemented, but probably worth describing the
current behavior anyway, and then updating as the behavior changes?


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:23 AM, srpearce <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In docs/en_us/course_authors/source/Peer_Assessments/PeerAssessment.rst:
>
> > +   you run into problems.
> > +
> > +Finally, if you're at an edX consortium university and you plan to
> > +include peer assessments in a MOOC, make sure to notify your
> > +edX project manager (PM).
> > +
> > +.. _PA Elements:
> > +
> > +Elements of a Peer Assessment
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +When you create a peer assessment problem, you'll specify several elements. For step-by-step instructions, see :ref:`Create a PA Problem`.
> > +
> > +- The **number of responses** each student has to grade.
> > +
> > +- The **number of grades** each response has to receive.
>
> Added a note (wording is kind of clunky so I'm happy to consider
> suggestions): Because some students may submit a response but not complete
> peer assessments, some responses may not receive the required number of
> assessments. To increase the chance that all responses will receive enough
> assessments, we recommend that you set the number of responses that
> students must assess to be higher than the number of assessments that each
> response must undergo. For example, if you require each response to receive
> three assessments, you could require each student to assess five responses.
>
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