FeedbackFruits - Skill Review
Receiving constructive, structured feedback from teachers enhances the learning experience and motivates students in improving these skills. With Skill Review you can give this feedback in an organized and timely manner.- Give feedback on hard and soft skills.
- Use customizable criteria or rubrics.
- Reuse meaningful feedback to save time.
- Turn assessment into a dialogue by letting students reply to feedback.
- Overview of student progress.
- Integrated in Canvas and synched with Canvas Gradebook.
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 Skill Review as a teacher?
Feedbackfruits offers a guide that will walk you through all the steps to use Skill Review, from how to set up the assignment to how to monitor and give feedback to your students.
Go to the site Links to an external site.How to use Skill Review as a student?
Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use Skill Review? Send this guide. Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Skill Review from the student perspective.
Go to the site Links to an external site.If you cannot find your question here, try to find it in the FAQ.
Give constructive feedback
Feedback is an essential part of the learning process and a rich source for your students' development. But how to give constructive feedback? In this article you get 9 tips.
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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.
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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