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Are you using learning activities where students need to collaborate? With Group Member Evaluation you can get insight into your students' collaboration process, prevent free-riding and improve students' collaboration skills.

Prevent free-riding and improve collaboration
Organize group member and/or self assessment assignments
Use customizable criteria or rubrics
Let students reflect on received feedback
Overview of student progress
Synced with Canvas Groups
Integrated in Canvas

Setting up Group member evaluation

We made a step by step guide for you how you can set up Feedbackfruits Group Member Evaluation.

Step by step guide

Group member evaluation | Teacher Perspective

FeedbackFruits offers a guide that will walk you through how you can monitor your students' progress and view the feedback they gave each other in a Group Member Evaluation assignment.

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Group member evaluation | Student Perspective

Do you want to give you students instruction on how to use Group member evaluation? Send this guide. FeedbackFruits offers a guide that let you see Group member evaluation from student perspective.

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Video: 10:49 min. Want a demonstration of Group Member Evaluation? Then watch this video.

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Teaching students to work together

Want your students to learn how to work together in a team/group? This self-help kit has ready to use material to help your students to better work together as a team.

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Reflecting on group work

How can you stimulate students how to reflect on their group work? And how can you as a teacher evaluate the level of collaboration skills of your students? Catme has created two rubrics for these purposes that have been extensively researched on effectiveness. You can use these rubrics in your Group Member Evaluation assignment. Find the rubrics here.

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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.

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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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