FeedbackFruits 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. FeedbackFruits also allows for acting on the feedback by giving students the opportunity to reflect on their feedback and continue a dialogue with the feedback giver.
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 FeedbackFruits through Brightspace so that students are automatically created in FeedbackFruits.
ACCESS FOR STUDENTS | Students can access FeedbackFruits from their course in Brightspace, and student credentials are automatically transferred from Brightspace to FeedbackFruits. |
ACCESS FOR INSTRUCTORS | FeedbackFruits is integrated with your course in Brightspace. You can add it to your course page by:
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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.
Students can receive feedback in different ways in FeedbackFruits: You can facilitate peer feedback (where the students give each other feedback), you or other teachers on the team can give feedback, or 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, as general comments or in-line text corrections in the student's text if the task response is an editable link, for example, Word Online.