FeedbackFruits - Peer Review

- Organize individual or group peer feedback assignments
- Automatically or manually distribute to reviewers
- Streamlined workflow for students
- Use customizable criteria or rubrics and/or in-line feedback
- Option to let students reflect on received feedback
- Overview of student progress
- Synced with Canvas Groups and Canvas Gradebook
- Integrated in Canvas
How to set up Peer Review in Canvas?
We made a step by step guide for you on how to set up FeedbackFruits Peer Review.
Go to guide Links to an external site.How to set up and use Peer Review as a teacher?
Feedbackfruits offers a guide that will walk you through all the steps to use Peer Review, 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 Peer Review as a student?
Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use Peer Review? Send this guide. Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Peer Review from the student perspective.
Go to the site Links to an external site.How are peers assigned?
The proper distribution of student work among peers is essential to an effective peer feedback assignment. In this article FeedbackFruits explains how their algorithm works.
Go to the site Links to an external site.Video: 5:31 min. Want to know how to use Peer Review as a teacher? Then watch this video.
If you cannot find your question here, try to find it in the FAQ.
Share this video to teach students how to give peer feedback
Share these videos with your students so they can learn how to give and receive peer feedback (available in both English and Dutch). Share it in Canvas, or show the video during class.
Go to videos Links to an external site.Improving the quality of peer feedback
Peer feedback is an important academic skill and giving and receiving peer feedback promotes critical thinking and deeper learning. Research even suggests that students learn more from peer feedback than feedback from their teacher, because they don't accept the feedback of peers automatically as correct. But this only works if students give each other good quality feedback. On this page, you can find tips on how to improve the quality of your students' peer feedback.
Go to pageImproving the quality of peer feedback 2
On this page, you can find even more tips on how to improve the quality of students' peer feedback.
Go to pageUser story from teacher Runar Oudmayer
"I was surprised at the intuitivity of the students and interactivity between them while using this tool. This wasn't the case before digitizing the feedback process with Peer Review." Read more about his experiences on this page.
Go to page Links to an external site.User story from a teacher
"Using Peer Review saved me time, as the quality of drafts greatly improved." Read more about his experiences on this page.
Go to page Links to an external site.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 Links to an external site.. Your help is much appreciated.
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?
+ How do I check for plagiarism in FeedbackFruits?
+ 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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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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