HOW TO COMPILE PEER EVALUATIONS

Managerial Communications (CIS A280), Summer 2015

Setup
Create a Peer Evaluations content folder in Blackboard and add these items: Peer Evaluation Instructions,
Peer Evaluations Excel template. For each evaluation period, create an assignment:
Unit 1
Instructions: Complete the Excel file according to the instructions. Save it first as an Excel file
(.xlsx), then as a Text (Tab Delimited, .txt) file. Attach and submit the .txt file here.
Please evaluate your teammates' performance throughout Unit 1, including the IRAT/TRAT, the
Storytelling activity, and the Peer Introductions activity.
Points Possible: 0
[available, unlimited attempts]
Display After: May 28, 07:00 pm (day assigned in class)
Display Until: June 5, 07:00 pm (at least one class after due date)
Due Date: June 2, 07:00 pm (next class after its assigned)
[all students]

Compiling
Students must submit their peer evaluations as .txt files. We will combine those files to one Excel
worksheet to sort, average, and total scores for each student. These instructions are for a PC.
1. Download and extract all of the files for a unit to a new, empty folder. (Blackboard creates a .txt file
about each student submission. To delete these added files, open the folder in View:Details, expand
the Name area to see which titles are longer than the others, Click on Size to sort, then highlight and
delete the 1 KB files with shorter names. You should delete exactly half the files.)
2. Right-click on one of the documents inside the folder, and select Properties. Highlight the location
(C:\Users\keveret3\Documents\280 evals, for example), right-click on it, and Copy.
3. Click on the Start menu, select Run, then type: cmd. This should open a DOS window. Type cd
followed by a space, then right-click inside the window and select Paste. The resulting command
should look like: cd C:\Users\keveret3\Documents\280 evals. Hit Enter to change the
directory.
4. Type: for %f in (*.txt) do type "%f" >> all.txt and hit Enter. It will merge all of the
files into the new file, all.txt.
5. Open a blank worksheet in Excel (either a new file, or a new sheet if you want to check that students
arent editing their old evaluations). Under the Data tab, in the Get External Data box, click on From
Text. Select and Import the all.txt file. On the Text Import Wizard, select Delimited data type, then on
the next screen, select Tab, then Finish.
6. Because the blank rows are formatted in the initial Excel template, students evaluation sets will be
separated by several rows. Sort the data by Team, then Student or Unit/Week to organize it. This will
leave a set of header rows (alphabetized under Team) that you should delete before processing the
data.
7. To calculate students midterm and final peer evaluation grades, create a new sheet with all of the
names in one column, in the same alphabetical order as the sorted data in the first sheet. Then
calculate the average score for that student (both columns, all evaluations), multiplied by the number
of evaluation periods. This should look something like =AVERAGE(Sheet1!D2:E16)*3 for the
midterm and *9 for the final (the final evaluation set will have 10 points possible, instead of 5, raising
the average).

Evaluation Periods
Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 (including presentations), Unit 4A (week 7), Unit 4B (week 8), Unit 4C (week 9),
Team Report, Team Presentations, Semester