A new block is created that can only be filled with content from a person who has the “Peer assessment” role for a portfolio. The block can be selected by the portfolio author for inclusion on any page, but it can only be used in conjunction with the peer assessor role. If no peer assessor is selected for a portfolio, the block stays empty. It is also available on the site and institution level for inclusion into portfolio pages there (for the creation of templates).
Characteristics of the block:
• Title: Peer assessment (editable by the portfolio author);
• Retractable functionality is available like on every other block and follows the same rules and the portfolio author can move or delete the block as usual;
• Instructions can be added to the block to let peer know what is expected of them. The page owner can write these instructions (or they are transferred from the template). The instructions can be made available via an expandable link in the block itself so as not to be present at all times.
• Portfolio author cannot enter any content;
• When a person with the “Peer assessor” role views a portfolio page that contains this block, they see the link “Add peer assessment”;
• A modal slides in from the side in which the peers have a text box available in which they can write their assessment. It does not have to be a TinyMCE text field;
• The text can be saved as draft (visible only to the peer) or published (visible to the user);
• When the text is in draft mode, the peer can make changes to it and nobody else but them can see the text, the block always slides out in the side panel when making changes to the text;
• The block tracks when it was first saved and when the last update was made;
• The profile picture and name of the peer assessor is displayed in the block (similar to the display in comments);
• When the text is published, the peer assessor has 10 minutes to make any other changes before the assessment is locked in place, and the user can view the assessment and delete it if necessary;
• Peer assessments become visible to everybody else when the user signs off the entire page;
• More than one peer assessment can be made. Every peer assessor only sees their own content.
When their content is published, the assessments are distinguished by the name of the peer assessor;
• When peer assessments have been made, but peer assessor status has been revoked for a person, their assessment stays on the page either in draft or published status. The portfolio author can fully remove the block and thus delete any drafts and pull another peer assessment
block into the page if needed.
In order for it to work properly, it will require a new role "Peer assessor" and the possibility to choose that during the portfolio sharing process (bug #1784781).
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