Engage students with FeedbackFruits

FeedbackFruits enhances active learning with tools for peer review, group collaboration, and interactive assignments. Fully integrated with Canvas, it simplifies teaching workflows for both online and in-person classes.

What is FeedbackFruits?

FeedbackFruits is an educational platform that promotes collaboration and engagement through peer feedback, interactive content, and group assignments. It allows instructors to create meaningful, student-centered learning experiences while tracking progress seamlessly.

Why Use FeedbackFruits?

FeedbackFruits supports interactive learning and collaboration across in-person, hybrid, or online courses. It enables seamless peer feedback, group work, and dynamic assignments, fostering active student engagement with peers (student–to–student, S-S), with learning materials (student–to–content, S-C) and instructors (student–to–instructor, S-I) thereby improving course outcomes (Moore, 1989).

Enhance Peer Feedback

Simplifies peer evaluations with structured workflows, allowing students to give and receive meaningful feedback.

Facilitate Collaborative Learning

Streamlines group assignments and ensures accountability by tracking individual contributions.

Create Engaging Assignments

Interactive tools, such as video quizzes and document annotations, make learning active and engaging.

Fully Integrated with Canvas

Works seamlessly with Canvas to save instructors time and ensure a smooth experience for students.

Introduction to FeedbackFruits tools

Feedback & Assessment

Peer Review (S-S)

Overview: Peer Review helps students exchange feedback with each other, building communication and self-regulation skills while allowing the instructor to track progress and customize feedback criteria.

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Group Member Evaluation (S-I, S-S)

Overview: Group Member Evaluation provides instructors with insights into the collaborative process, reducing free-riding and enhancing student engagement by enabling easy peer assessments with customizable rubrics and automatic grade synchronization.

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Group Formation (S-I)

Overview: Group Formation allows instructors to make effective groups, automatically. Instructors can easily create inclusive and well-balanced groups, aiming to enhance group dynamics, learning outcomes, student satisfaction, and engagement.

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Automated Feedback (S-C)

Overview: Automated Feedback addresses mechanical and structural elements like citation, academic style, grammar, and structure, leaving teachers with more time to focus on higher-order cognitive skills like comprehension and critical argumentation of concepts.

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Collaboration & Engagement

Interactive Document (S-C, S-S)

Overview: The Interactive Document enhances student engagement with document materials in online/hybrid learning by incorporating social annotation, addressing the issue of students passively consuming multimedia materials and arriving unprepared for class, which wastes valuable lecture time.

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Interactive Video (S-C, S-S)

Overview: The Interactive Video enhances student engagement with video materials in online/hybrid learning by incorporating social annotation, addressing the issue of students passively consuming multimedia materials and arriving unprepared for class, which wastes valuable lecture time.

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Comprehension (S-C)

Overview: Comprehension tool gives instructors the opportunity to upload different study materials (documents, video, or audio) for students to review while identifying and priming on predefined topics to guarantee a better understanding of the study material.

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Interactive Audio (S-C, S-S)

Overview: The Interactive Audio enhances student engagement with video materials in online/hybrid learning by incorporating social annotation, addressing the issue of students passively consuming multimedia materials and arriving unprepared for class, which wastes valuable lecture time.

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Team-Based Learning (S-I, S-S, S-C)

Overview: Team-Based Learning strategy is a teaching method that emphasizes collaborative problem-solving and real-world application, and FeedbackFruits Team-Based Learning provides a platform for setting up team-based assignments, enabling online collaboration, document sharing, and peer feedback.

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Best Practices in Using FeedbackFruits

How to Get Started with FeedbackFruits Activity in Canvas

Log in to your Canvas account.
Navigate to the “Assignments” section and select “FeedbackFruits” from the external tools.
Choose the type of activity: for example – peer review, interactive content, or group assignment.
Customize your activity and publish it for students.

Success Stories | FeedbackFruits Tools

Explore the FeedbackFruits Use Cases to discover how educators worldwide are transforming their in-person, online, and hybrid teaching methods with FeedbackFruits tools, enhancing student learning experiences in the classroom.

Highlighting Use Case at UC Irvine

Full Use Case Article Transforming peer and group assessment for better collaboration at UCI Paul Merage School of Business:

The first thing to understand is that FeedbackFruits is built and designed specifically for peer-to-peer learning, and the Peer Review tool is designed specifically for Peer Reviews. They understand that you’re going to need a couple of different dates on an assignment. They understand, for example, that there are going to be students who hand things in late and how that affects how Peer Reviews are assigned. They understand that there might be situations where a student isn’t going to submit that deliverable, but you still want them to have the experience of reading the work of their peers and providing feedback on their peers. So they’re very thoughtful about the different options that are available within an individual assignment, and they are practical in terms of what’s actually going to be experienced when you get into a course.

– Caryn Neiswender

Amber Parker