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Peer feedback is an important academic skill students need to learn. Furthermore, giving and receiving peer feedback promotes critical thinking and deeper learning. FeedbackFruits Peer Review streamlines this learning activity clearly for your students.

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
Turn peer feedback into dialogue
Option to let students reflect on received feedback
Overview of student progress
Synced with Canvas Groups and Canvas Gradebook

Setting up Peer Review

We made a step by step guide for you on how to set up FeedbackFruits Peer Review.

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Peer Review | Teacher Perspective

Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the Peer Review setup from teacher perspective.

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Peer Review | Student Perspective

Feedbackfruits offers a guide that let you see the peer review setup from student perspective.

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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.

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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.

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Improving 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.

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User 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.

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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.

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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.

+ How do I check for plagiarism in FeedbackFruits?

It is not possible to check for plagiarism with the FeedbackFruits tools. You have to a create a seperate Canvas assignment and choose Urkund plagiarism review. Students can then upload their document to both assignments, one for plagiarism check and the other for FeedbackFruits functionalities.

+ 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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