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Intermediate

Self-Assessment helps students think of possible adjustments they can make on their work. Reviewing oneself results in enhanced learning outcomes and performance and it helps motivate students to have ownership of their own learning.

Let students review their own work (e.g. essay, slides, etc.)
Use customizable criteria or rubrics to guide the review process
Students can review their own work or that of their own group
Overview of student progress
Integrated in Canvas
Similarity plagiarism check is available

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.

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How to set up and use Self-assessment of Work as a teacher?

Feedbackfruits offers a guide that will walk you through all the steps to use Self-assessment of Work, from how to set up the assignment to how to monitor student progress.

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How to use Self-assessment of Work as a student?

Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use Self-assessment of Work? Send this guide. Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Self-assessment of Work from the student perspective.

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How to use the plagiarism check in FeedbackFruits?

Please see the link for FAQ's and instructions. Please note: Unfortunately your exclusions and filters in the plagiarism report are not saved in FeedbackFruits when you use Similarity in FeedbackFruits.

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

Strenghten students' ownership

Do you want to strengthen the student's ownership of their learning process? Self-assessment is one of the ways to reach this. Read about this tip and other ways in this article.

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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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