# Peer Assessment Target Release Options

By default, all assessment distributions have the task release set to immediately release tasks to targets when they are completed. One case where an administrator may not want this is in the case of Peer Assessment, where the learners should not be able to see individually completed and identified tasks.

To allow institutions to prevent this from happening due to administrative error of not setting the appropriate settings, a database setting was introduced in Elentra ME 1.21 (peer\_assessment\_target\_release\_enabled). This setting is disabled by default.

With the setting enabled, if an assessment distribution’s targets and assessors are both LEARNERS, the Task List Release will be set to **Targets cannot view tasks completed on them,** the Target Self-Reporting Release will be set to **Targets can immediately view reports for tasks completed on them**, and the Target Self-Reporting Options will be set to **Comments are anonymous.**

**Conditions that need to be met in the distribution wizard to be considered a peer assessment:**

The **target** is considered to be a learner when a distribution uses one of the following:

* Date range based distribution, pick the “Select learners” option
* Rotation based distributions, pick the “The targets for this Distribution are learners” or “The targets for this Distribution are peers” options
* Date range delegation based distribution, pick the “Select learners” option
* Rotation based delegation distributions, pick the “The targets for this Distribution are learners” or “The targets for this Distribution are peers” options
* Event based distribution, pick the “Attendees who are enrolled in events with the selected event types” option
* The distribution delivery type is adhoc

The **assessor** is considered to be a learner when a distribution uses one of the following:

* Date range based distribution, pick the “Select learners” option
* Rotation based distribution, pick the “The assessors for this Distribution are learners” option
* Date range delegation based distribution, pick the “Select learners” option
* Rotation based delegation distribution, pick the “The assessors for this Distribution are learners” option
* Event based distribution, pick the “The assessors for this Distribution are attendees enrolled in the event” option
* Ahdoc distribution, pick the “Select learners” option

With the above considered, if **both the target and assessor** are determined to be learners, then the distribution is a peer assessment that can then use the new rules **assuming that the database setting is enabled**.
