Peer Helpers – Classkick Support

Peer Helpers allows students to ask each other for help. Students can then access each other's slides to provide feedback and help.

Click each heading for more information on Peer Helpers.

1) How Does Peer Helpers Work?

When the Peer Helpers feature is toggled on:

When students ask for help, their peers will receive a hand notification (image below): A student’s view of an assignment slide. A red arrow points to a hand icon in the upper right corner. The number one is highlighted in green next to the hand icon.

Students can click the notification to help their peers.

The student asking for help is anonymous, so the helper would pick who to help, but not know who they are helping. The student who is receiving help can see who is helping.

After clicking on a peer, they will be taken to that peer's slide.

They can provide feedback exactly like the teacher - they can type, write, draw, voice record or add any additional notes to their peer's work to help them.

Click here for a printable PDF with information on the Classkick Hand Raise feature.

2) View Peer Helpers

To see who has helped each other,

1. Click View Work.

2. There is a Peer Helpers icon next to each student's name.

If there is a number, you can see that there was an instance of Peer Helping. For Alan Turing, there was 1 instance of Peer Helping. Alan may have been the helper OR received the help.

The teacher’s view of the view work tab. A red arrow points to the peer helpers icon with the number one next to it.

3. Click the Peer Helpers icon to see who helped.

The teacher’s view of the view work tab. The Helper History pop up window is outlined in red. The text on the Helper History pop up window reads Mary Jackson helped Alan Turing on question number 1.

Additionally, with our Contributor Toggle feature on Classkick web, you can see which specific users have left work or feedback on a page. Users include students, peer helpers, and even teachers.

Teachers are able to see how students are helping one another and gain more insight into how students are using the Peer Helper feature.

Please click here for more information on our Contributor Toggle feature.

3) Turn Peer Helpers On or Off

1. Click Assign.

2. Toggle Helpers on or off.

If the toggle is gray, it is off. If it is green, it is on.

The teacher’s view of the assign tab. Helpers and its toggle are highlighted in red. The toggle is green.

4) Can I Erase Student Feedback?

There is currently not a way to delete feedback given from a peer.

Students are able to hide feedback using the Toggle Feedback feature. This feature hides ALL feedback, including feedback given by the teacher.

To do this, the student can click the Toggle Feedback icon.

The student’s view of an assignment slide. A red arrow points to the toggle feedback icon in the upper right corner.

5) Can I Select Which Students are Peer Helpers?

At this time, teachers cannot select which students are Peer Helpers.

If the feature is turned on for a roster, all students have access to Peer Helpers.

If it is off, none of the students can have access.

For visual support on Peer Helpers, please watch the video below:

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