Want to avoid working on a project with a slacker student? New site allows students to rate fellow classmates

Group assignments. You never know who you're going to get stuck with or how much -- or how little -- each of your classmates will contribute to the project. Enter Stefano Cerone. He's a business student at York University in Toronto who has just launched Tworp.com, the first-ever website for students to anonymously rate their fellow students.

"Students can go on and they can input their classmates's name and give them a rating on the five criteria that we follow, and also provide them with constructive comments," explains Cerone to As It Happens host Carol Off.

"We believe that students will be able to actually go on and find team members who fit each particular project better and also act as a deterrent for students... obviously no one wants to be known as the freeloader in a project."

Students are able to rate and post their comments anonymously. Criticism has already been aimed at the site, with some alarmed at the site's potential to publicly shame students without fairly considering the reasons why they may not have been able to be active teammates in an assignment.

"We feel like we're definitely going to learn what a constructive comment is as the site progresses," he responds. "It's going to be a bit of a learning curve for us. But we're really going to try to find that balance between what is constructive and what is truly harmful to someone's reputation."