Feedbackfruits - Comprehension of Document
Comprehension of Document helps students read actively and to properly understand and interpret the presented information. It enhances their comprehension of the study material and critical thinking skills.
- Students actively engage with study material
- Define topics that students should identify in the text
- Outlined topics can be discussed within groups
- Ask students to write a summary based on their annotations
- Students can reflect on what they have read
- Overview of student progress
- Integrated in Canvas
How to add FeedbackFruits to Canvas?
FeedbackFruits is available in Canvas. However, it's hidden away how to add it. This guide will show you exactly how to add the tool to Canvas.
Go to the guide Links to an external site.How to set up and use Comprehension as a teacher?
Feedbackfruits offers a guide that will walk you through all the steps to use Comprehension, from how to set up the assignment to how to monitor student progress.
Go to the site Links to an external site.How to use Comprehension as a student?
Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use Comprehension of Document? Send this guide. FeedbackFruits offers a guide that let you see Comprehension of Document from the student perspective.
Go to the site Links to an external site.Video: 5:37 min. Want a quick demonstration of Comprehension of Document? Then watch this video.
If you cannot find your question here, try to find it in the FAQ.
Module Academic learning skills
The UB of University Tilburg has created a nice online module to teach students academic reading skills. It's open access so anyone can use this. You're also allowed to use specific elements from this module. See the module here (Dutch only).
Go to page Links to an external site.Improving students' academic reading skills
"I used Comprehension to improve the academic reading skills of my students. Students had to individually assess and identify the structure of academic papers. They had to critically read and analyze the sections and annotate the main arguments. Furthermore, students had to reflect and comment on peers annotations, give feedback and involve in discussion." Read about this teacher's experiences here.
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VU-specific FAQ
+ My FeedbackFruits assignment is running, but (one of) my students are experiencing technical difficulties. What do I do?
+ If I copy a Canvas course what happens with the FeedbackFruits assignment settings?
+ I've created the entire FeedbackFruits assignment, but it didn't save in Canvas. What happened?
+ How do I change the language in FeedbackFruits?
Step 2: Go to this Feedbackfruits assignment in Canvas. In the top right corner, there is an option to open a menu. This is visualised as three dots placed vertically. If you click on these, three options will be revealed: Edit, Share and Preferences. Choose Preferences.
Step 3: Here you will see the option to change the language. You can change this to three different languages: English, French and Dutch. You only need to change the language once: after you have selected the preferred language it will automatically be updated within your Feedbackfruits environment.
The VU privacy statement for FeedbackFruits
The VU has a contract and a data processing agreement with the supplier. These contain all kinds of provisions that prohibit the supplier from using personal data of VU employees and VU students for their own purposes (such as reselling). There are also a variety of security agreements in the agreement about when employees of the supplier may view data (almost never) that enters the application and what the supplier must do to minimize the chance that third parties can view or change data.
Privacy statement Links to an external site.Be aware of copyright
Scientific articles and other educational materials are often copyrighted. When using copyrighted articles in FeedbackFruits, the Easy Access Agreement applies. Please check the infographic if your articles or books can be used in FeedbackFruits. Also make sure to turn off the download button in FeedbackFruits.
Easy Access Agreement Links to an external site.Want help with copyright?
Do you need help and want to know if the material you want to use for your classes can be uploaded to FeedbackFruits? You can ask your Subject Librarian for help or send an e-mail to steunpuntleermaterialen.ub@vu.nl. They are happy to help and know exactly what is allowed to be used.
My subject librarianInformation on copyright
The UB has created this page to explain more about copyright. Any questions? You can also contact them via steunpuntleermaterialen.ub@vu.nl.
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