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Please note, starting the last weeks of september 2024 you may need to provide renewed consent to share your details between FeedbackFruits and Canvas due to new functionalities. This is normal behavior of the system and only needs to be done once you call up the FeedbackFruits Toolpicker.

Are you using learning activities where students need to collaborate? With the Group Formation Tool you can automate the process to group students based on their preferences or characteristics.

Create the perfect groups for group assignments.
Ask questions to group the right students together.
Groups are automatically created based on student answers.
Assemble based on heterogeneity or homogeneity.
Synced with Canvas Groups and Sections.
Integrated in Canvas.

Setting up Group Formation

We made a step by step guide for you how you can set up Feedbackfruits Group Formation.

Step by step guide

Group Formation | Teacher Perspective

FeedbackFruits offers a guide that will walk you through how to set up the tool and how to monitor the progress of the students and the groups created. It also explains the different ways how to create student groups and how to get the created groups to Canvas.

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Group Formation | Student Perspective

Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use the Group Formation tool? Send this guide. FeedbackFruits offers a guide that let you see Group Formation tool from the student perspective.

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If you cannot find your question here, try to find it in the FAQ.

Inspiration questions to ask your students to create perfect groups

This tool will help you create perfect student groups automatically, but only when you ask the right kind of questions to your students. What questions should you ask your students to create these perfect groups? This page will give you lots ideas.

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Teaching students to work together

Want your students to learn how to work together in a team/group? This self-help kit has ready to use material to help your students to better work together as a team.

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Please help us collect inspiring examples. If you have an interesting example to share, or if you come across an example worth sharing, please tell us by filling out this Contact Form. Your help is much appreciated.

The most up-to-date FAQ can be found on this website of the supplier.

VU-specific FAQ

+ My FeedbackFruits assignment is running, but (one of) my students are experiencing technical difficulties. What do I do?

In every FeedbackFruits assignment is a chat button in the left bottom corner. The VU has an agreement with FeedbackFruits that they give technical support whenever something goes wrong or when you have a question. They can reach the back-end to fix the problem quickly. Students and teachers both can use this, so definitely stimulate your students to use this chat button. FeedbackFruits usually responds within 10 minutes and they are reachable 24/5.

+ If I copy a Canvas course what happens with the FeedbackFruits assignment settings?

If you copy assignments that include external tools (i.e. FeedbackFruits tools), the settings of the external tool will not be copied. To solve this for FeedbackFruits assignments you can choose 'use copy of existing', to copy assignment settings of a previous FeedbackFruits assignment.

+ I've created the entire FeedbackFruits assignment, but it didn't save in Canvas. What happened?

After you click SAVE in FeedbackFruits, the list of all VU external tools will be visible again. Make sure you click the blue Select button when you see this screen, otherwise your FeedbackFruits assignment will be thrown out by Canvas. It is not possible to recover your FeedbackFruits assignment once you have thrown it away in Canvas.

+ How do I change the language in FeedbackFruits?

Step 1: A FeedbackFruits assignment (Interactive Document, Group Member Evaluation e.g.) needs to be created within Canvas. If you don't have one yet, make a new one. This does not need to be published for the students.

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.

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Rather set up an appointment?

Using a new tool can be challenging and it can take some time to master the new tool. That's why the VU Education Lab offers the possibility to set up your first learning activity using this tool together with an expert, for free. Use this form or send an email to onderwijswerkplaats@vu.nl.

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