FeedbackFruits - Group Member Evaluation

- Prevent free-riding and improve collaboration
- Organize group member and/or self assessment assignments
- Use customizable criteria or rubrics
- Let students reflect on received feedback
- Overview of student progress
- Synced with Canvas Groups
- 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 guide Links to an external site.How to set up and use Group Member Evaluation as a teacher?
Feedbackfruits offers a guide that will walk you through all the steps to use Group Member Evaluation, from how to set up the assignment to how to monitor student progress.
Go to site Links to an external site.How to use Group Member Evaluation as a student?
Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use Group Member Evaluation? Send this guide. Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Group Member Evaluation from the student perspective.
Go to site Links to an external site.How to adjust grading based on student contribution?
Free-riding could happen when students work together on an assignment. This guide on the 'Group Contribution Factor' shows you how to scale grades based on students’ performance/contribution relative to their group. SBE has also created a guide on this Download SBE has also created a guide on this.
Go to site Links to an external site.Video: 10:49 min. Want a demonstration of Group Member Evaluation? Then watch this video.
If you cannot find your question here, try to find it in the FAQ.
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.
Go to self-help kitReflecting on group work
How can you stimulate students how to reflect on their group work? And how can you as a teacher evaluate the level of collaboration skills of your students? Catme has created two rubrics for these purposes that have been extensively researched on effectiveness. You can use these rubrics in your Group Member Evaluation assignment. Find the rubrics here.
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The most up-to-date FAQ can be found on this website of the supplier. Links to an external site.
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.
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