Peer review, whether formal or informal, is a very common NowComment application. Reviewing documents online offers many significant advantages over marking up paper copies:

1. Overcomes Physical Page Constraints
   Reviewers want to make their comments in-context with the corresponding part of the document (rather than on a separate paper), which for a physical page means comments in the margins. But that space if very limited, and the need to drastically prune one's prose; comments are too often left cryptic from over-compression, and more often than not the reviewer isn't passing on all relevant comments. NowComment's reason for existence is to provide fast and easy (1-click!) commenting tied to specific document passages (though macro “Whole Document” comments are welcome too).
2. Avoids Paper Swapping
   Passing on physical pieces of paper requires students to arrange handoff and retrieval logistics,...

You can have as many Groups in NowComment as you want.Anyone can create a Group; students can create their own study and project groups without any admin work required from the Instructor.

Here are a few ideas for adding collaborative group experiences to your NowComment assignments:

1. Everyone comments on the same text

This is most useful with texts posing problems that are highly subjective (many possible answers or approaches, none clearly right or clearly wrong).

Teams/workgroups are created to be small enough for everyone in the group to be actively involved in online commenting to work through the challenges posed by the document being discussed.At the end of the commenting period each group chooses a representative to verbally present its findings to the class (in miniature, Think-Pair-Share). If desired, the groups can then meet again to discuss the new...

NowComment is most commonly used in traditional classes to complement face-to-face discussion, lectures, and other standard teaching methods (in distance education settings NowComment can serve as the primary vehicle for student-teacher interaction).

One of the great advantages of online commenting is its flexibility; you can use it in a wide variety of contexts and sequences to meet your educational objectives.For example:

NowComment to engage with assigned reading

Requiring intelligent online comments is a good way to hold students accountable for having done the reading.This can be especially helpful in preparation for face-to-face discussion of that reading; students’ online comments are very useful as organic conversation-starters.

Review NowComment comments before a lecture