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Tired of students who come unprepared to class? With Interactive Document you can motivate students to read the required literature. It also promotes deeper learning and allows students to read the literature together.

Students place annotations into the literature and respond to each other
Add questions directly in the literature
Promotes out of class discussion
Overview of student participation
Integrated in Canvas
Be aware of copyright

Setting up Interactive Document

We made a step by step guide for you how you can set up Feedbackfruits Interactive Document in Canvas and how to use the tool.

Step by step guide

How to set up and use Interactive Document as a teacher?

Feedbackfruits offers a guide that will walk you through all the steps to use Interactive Document, from how to set up the assignment to how to monitor student progress.

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How to use Interactive Document as a student?

Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use Interactive Document? Send this guide. Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Interactive Document from the student perspective.

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Try Feedbackfruits Interactive Document yourself!

Want to try and use the tool yourself? We set up a practice assignment for you to try the tool as a student (make sure you're enrolled in this course).

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Video: 5:38 min. Want a demonstration of Interactive Document? Watch this video.

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

Motivating your students to read literature with Interactive Document

With FeedbackFruits Interactive Document you can motivate students to read the literature so that they're prepared for class. But how to best use this tool in order to accomplish this goal? Download this page to receive practical teaching tips on how to use this tool best.

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What are good annotations?

Perusall, a similar tool to FeedbackFruits Interactive Document, has written articles what good annotations are in different disciplines. They give examples of real student annotations. You can also share these links with your students to teach them what good annotations are.

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How to encourage students to do their self-study assignments?

FeedbackFruits Interactive Document plays a role in motivating students to do their self-study assignments. But how can you promote students to do their work in general? These five tips can help out!

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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

+ 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.

+ 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.

+ Can I upload any content in Interactive document?

No, you have to respect the copyright of the author of the content, please have a look under the Copyright tab.

+ 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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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

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 cip.ub@vu.nl. They are happy to help and know exactly what is allowed to be used.

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Information on copyright

The UB has created this page to explain more about copyright. Any questions? You can also contact them via cip.ub@vu.nl.

Dealing with copyright in education

Do you have a question?

Your faculty has support to help you with everything regarding educational tools. You can find your faculty contact information here.

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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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