Eduflow is an online tool that helps instructors facilitate peer feedback activities for students. With the tool, students can submit different types of assignments including written assignments, website products, and video recordings. The tool automates the feedback process by distributing the students' responses to other students, who then provide feedback based on criteria set by the instructor. Eduflow also allows for acting on the feedback by allowing students to reflect on their feedback and potentially resubmit their response.
Eduflow is a newer version of Peergrade. Access to Peergrade closes on June 30th for AU employees, and we recommend that peer feedback activities be moved to Eduflow instead.
Eduflow is integrated with your course in Brightspace. You can add it to your course page by:
Selecting "Add Existing" or "Create New"
Then choosing "External Tool Activity"
And choosing “Eduflow”.
By completing activities in Eduflow through your course in Brightspace, students' user information from Brightspace will automatically be transferred to Eduflow.However, students are not enrolled in the activity in Eduflow until they actively click the link to Eduflow through the course in Brightspace.
Facilitating peer feedback both in and outside of class.
Automating the distribution of assignments and feedback.
Setting deadlines and the number of peers per student.
Structuring criterion-based feedback using rubrics.
Submissions and feedback can be done individually or in groups.
Access Eduflow through Brightspace so that students are automatically created in Eduflow.
A rubric is a guide to help students in their feedback. It gives the instructor opportunity to ensure academic and qualified feedback. The extent of this rubric is up to the instructor. The rubric is used when students give feedback on others' assignments by noting their feedback in the rubric as a response to the criteria or questions posed by the instructor in the rubric. Read more about rubrics here.
You can create categories that the students choose or that you divide them into. This allows for differentiated teaching with, for example, the choice of category based on difficulty, subject, expertise, or academic level. With categories, you can easily get a group of students to give feedback on each other's submissions within the same category.
Students can receive feedback in different ways in Eduflow. On the one hand, you can facilitate peer feedback (where the students give each other feedback). On the other hand, you or other teachers on the team can give feedback. Additionally, the students can give themselves feedback. One feedback activity does not exclude another, and the activities can be linked together.
The feedback can either be written or in video format by filling in the rubric, or it can be close to text in the form of comments and corrections in the student's text if the task response is an editable link, for example, Word Online.
Below, you can find examples of learning activities that you can use as a starting point or be inspired by when using Eduflow.
Simply explained, Eduflow works by:
The teacher sets up a task. Here, among other things, deadlines can be selected, how many each student should give feedback to, and whether it is an individual or group hand-in.
The students respond to the task and upload their work to Eduflow. Eduflow then arranges the students crosswise so that they can give feedback to each other's tasks.
The teacher can always give feedback to the students. This is particularly relevant if some students do not give the feedback they were supposed to. Therefore, it is also a good idea for each student to give feedback to at least two others. This increases the likelihood that all will receive feedback from at least one other student.
The students respond and comment on the feedback received in Eduflow.
The teacher has full overview of the feedback tasks in Eduflow.
Eduflow helps you facilitate peer feedback, where students give feedback on each other's work. The intention of this form of feedback is to improve the students' performance and their ability to evaluate their own and others' work. This helps students understand what is perceived as high-quality work, while training them to argue their viewpoints. Furthermore, peer feedback provides the opportunity to increase the amount of feedback received on written work throughout a semester.
This guide shows you how to use the two most used flows in Eduflow. A flow is the process that students must complete in order to be part of the peer feedback. The two flows reviewed here are "peer review flow" and "peer and self review flow".
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If you cannot add a student to your flow in Eduflow, it often turns out that the student does not yet have a user in Eduflow. To get a user in Eduflow, the student simply has to select Eduflow when you as a teacher have created an Eduflow element in the Content menu. Subsequently, you as a teacher can add them to the relevant flow.
This guide shows you how to download all the data contained in Peergrade to your computer. Please note that this data cannot be transferred to EduFlow and that the data from Peergrade comes out in raw form and therefore they must be processed before you can extract a context from the files you receive.
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