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The Peer-to-Peer Review Program Overview

The Peer-to-Peer Review Program (P2PR) can help improve your web site via a detailed peer-review program. Campus webmasters have a wide range of experience and skills, but we all have the common goal of clearly communicating to our audiences. Often we're too close to our own work to effectively do this. In addition, there are many guildeines and best practices to follow. P2PR can help by arranging to have your site reviewed, either anonymously or not, by your colleagues.

The success of the program depends upon you! We need people willing to submit their site for review and we need people to volunteer their time to review those sites. Signing up is easy - just read the following sections to get started.

Contributors

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Just Keep At It!

Whether your site is a stable one you've had up for a while or still in development, P2PR will help you assess its effectiveness by giving you useful feedback on what may need to be done in order to make it more accessible and code compliant. P2PR feedback can also give you additional leverage if you need to make the case for overhauling your web site.

P2PR Reviews can either be anonymous (no direct correspondence between you and the reviewers) or interactive (direct interaction between contributor and reviewer), it's up to you the Contributor. You can indicate whichever method you're most comfortable with on the Web Site Contributor page.

Following and implementing the review comments and suggestions is entirely up to you. The review will come to you in the form of an e-mail report based upon the P2PR Checklist. Reviewers are also free to expand upon the checklist if needed.

If you're interested in submitting your site for review, please go the Web Site Contributor page.

Reviewers

P2PR Reviewers do not necessarily have to be web experts. In fact the broader the range of expertice and experience, the better. One important aspect of the review is to check for general usability, something anyone can check. Site reviews will also diagnose sites for accessibility and code compliance.

Here are a few particulars regarding volunteering for the Review portion of the P2PR Program.

  • Review Groups will be small groups of 2-3 people.
  • Reviewers need to have approval from their supervisors in order to serve in this capacity. The P2PR work will require one or perhaps two review meetings per site and reviews are estimated to take no more than an hour.
  • A checklist is provided in order to make site review consistent and easy. For additional information on the rationale behind the checklist, please take a look at the P2PR Guidelines on the Webmasters' Wiki.
  • Please address any questions you may have regarding how to review a site, what to look for beyond the checklist or suggestions you may have to add to the checklist to Tim Offenstein. Once you've volunteered, you will be contacted with a list of others in your group and the site to be reviewed. You will be required to review the site, compile the findings of everyone in the group and then submit that through the P2PR Checklist.

If you're interested in volunteering your time to be a Reviewer, please go to the Web Site Reviewer page.

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