FeedbackFruits
FeedbackFruits supports these learning types (see definitions):
FeedbackFruits is integrated with Canvas. It provides a suite of tools designed to enhance student engagement, interaction and feedback, and improve collaboration, discussion and critical thinking. Tools encompass peer feedback, group assignments, interactive video and discussion forums.
Getting started
FeedbackFruits has been added to Canvas and a license has been procured until Jan 2028 for the Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation tools.
Check out how to add FeedbackFruits in Canvas.
Navigate to your course’s Assignments area and create a new Canvas Assignment; select External Tool followed by FeedbackFruits. Choose the relevant FeedbackFruits tool from the list.
The Canvas integration means you do not need to manually create groups within the FeedbackFruits activity. The Canvas groups will automatically be synced, allowing you to select the groups that are participating in the activity.
Similar to groups, grades and deadlines are also directly synced to the Canvas Gradebook and Calendar.
Help and support
Live supportIn FeedbackFruits, look for the purple chat icon in the lower-left hand corner. This will connect you with their 24/6 live-support service (Monday – Saturday), where you can send a direct message to their team.
Help Center provides basics of FeedbackFruits and how to get started, which is directly accessible through the in-tool support chat.
‘Tool Setting Explanation’ offers options on available settings on functionalities such as manual allocations, setting up feedback criteria, anonymity settings, grade configuration, etc.
Frequently asked questions includes how to keep track of student activity, how do you see the allocations, how to re-use and/or copy activities, how to make adjustments to created assignments, etc.
See also: templates from the FeedbackFruits Learning Design Community.
Types of assignment tools
FeedbackFruits’ Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation replace what Aropä and TeamMates do and that is where most staff have existing assessments.
Peer Review Assignment
If there is submission involved—whether it’s asking students to submit a draft paper, video, or PowerPoint presentation—Peer Review Assignment is the tool to use. Peer Review Assignments allow students to receive and give feedback through the review of artefacts and events, including essays, posters, videos, presentations, performances and professional practices. Instructors create the review structure, providing evaluation criteria with options of ratings and text responses, and choosing the number of self and peer reviews to be completed and their timing. Reviews can be based on individual or group submissions. Students can also be assessed on several components, including participation, scores awarded by reviewers and the number of comments. The relative weightings of these components are chosen by the instructor.
How-to guides:
View a video on how to set up a Peer Review assignment including how will look like from the student perspective.
Additional videos on specific tool configurations includes the collaboration option, setting up rubrics and setting up anonymity, additional use cases and student perspective as well as practices from other institutions.
Watch demo videos on how the Peer Feedback tools work:
- Peer Review (student perspective)
- Peer Review (staff setup)
Group Member Evaluation
The Group Member Evaluation Assignment provides a process for students to give feedback about other group members. The tool focuses on assessing peer collaboration and the process of the work. Students can reflect on the group experience and provide confidential feedback to staff, addressing the performance and contributions of group members, including a self-evaluation. Teachers create the review structure and assign it to a particular group or all groups. Students can receive marks for: participation, writing a set number of comments, writing a reflection, and reviewing feedback. Group Member Evaluation assignments can also be used for assessment activities when no document submission step is required.
How-to guides:
- View a video on how to set up a Group Member Evaluation including how the activity will look like from the student perspective.
- Features such as Detect Outliers and Group Contribution Factor and Group Skill Factor provides more insight on how these features work.
- Beta features such as Acai Feedback Coach 2.0 (beta) aims to provide students with real-time tips on their feedback to their peers. If you’re interested in testing and utilising this feature, please reach out to FeedbackFruits support and they can enable it for you.
Additional videos on specific tool configurations includes Detect Outliers, setting up rubrics and setting up anonymity, use cases and student perspective as well as practices from other institutions.
Watch a demo video on how Group Member Evaluation tools work.
New to FeedbackFruits?
Watch these presentations by Catherine Fraser to learn how Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation tools can enhance your course. This video covers integrating these tools into Canvas, addressing grading challenges, and improving student feedback skills. Perfect for newcomers or those needing a refresher.
Click the fullscreen button or watch in Panopto.
An introduction to FeedbackFruits: Recorded on 2 September 2024. Watch in Panopto.
A guide to FeedbackFruits’ Group Member Evaluation: Recorded on 20 September 2024. Watch in Panopto.
A guide to FeedbackFruits’ Peer Review: Recorded on 27 September 2024. Watch in Panopto.
FeedbackFruits in action
Boosting writing skills with FeedbackFruits for first-year engineers: The ENGGEN 140 story
Discover how Peer Review was scaled to facilitate draft essay reviews in a 1,000-student class.
Teamwork assessment with FeedbackFruits: Insights from Tertiary Foundation Course for Business
Curious about FeedbackFruits? See how its Group Member Evaluation tool can help create fair individual assessment in team assignments.
Enhancing learning at scale with FeedbackFruits: A case study from BUSMGT 708
See how Feedback Fruits’ Peer Review tool in Canvas has helped foster continuous skills practise through peer-driven feedback.
FAQs
Why do students receive a 'late' notification from Canvas when they submit their feedback in FeedbackFruits?
If you have set an assignment due date in Canvas as the same date and time that is set for the submission step in the FeedbackFruits (FF) assignment, then, when students enter the FF assignment to do the next step, which is the ‘give feedback’ step, this somehow triggers the Canvas assignment as being late, thus sending out a notification. So please set a due date to later than when the feedback submission is due.
See also
UoAxFeedbackFruits training sessions
Come along to an introductory session to the FeedbackFruits suite.
Page updated 05/02/2025 (replaced broken links)