Overview
Feedback Fruits is fostering a generation of critical thinkers and change-makers by enabling institutions to implement diverse pedagogies, assess learner skills and track progress, and scale proven course designs to fit higher education needs.
Social Annotations
Students can collaboratively learn with and from each other, gaining a better understanding of a topic by sharing thoughts and ideas while having enriching discussions and promoting learner engagement. The Comprehension pedagogical tool gives instructors the opportunity to upload study materials for students to review and annotate, while recognizing and priming on specific topics to guarantee a better understanding of the study material. Instructors can monitor the level of comprehension of their students, providing a more assertive and high-level lecture. Students can develop a deeper understanding of the material and learn from other students' annotations, which can help them prepare more thoroughly for exams, group work, and other assignments.
Team Based Learning (TBL) and Polling
The Interactive Presentation tool gives instructors the opportunity to add questions and attachments to existing presentations for students to answer or view content without changing tabs. They can add either multiple-choice or open-ended questions and require students to answer at different points in the presentation. Instructors can create questions either with a time limit, or without, using our in-built timer. This allows for customization in all class settings. Teachers can track students’ performance and participation in real-time as they answer, and gain insights into understanding of concepts. This tool prepares students for team-based learning activities with readiness assurance tests online. The tool helps instructors create and scale each step of TBL across any class size, modality, and domain. Instructors configure a pre-work assignment with options of multimedia content upload and questions/ discussions adding. Next, automating the IRAT and TRAT steps with quizzes to compete individually and as a group. Finally, a group evaluation step can be configured to encourage critical reflection and evaluation on a student's group contribution.
Peer Feedback
FeedbackFruits offers six peer feedback tools: Peer Review Group Member Evaluation, Assignment Review, Skill Review, Automated Feedback, and Self-Assessment.
These tools utilize diverse media submissions (video, audio, text documents and webpages) and varied feedback opportunities (quantitative and qualitative) to provide flexible learning modes for a diverse range of students. The activities center collaborative learning with structured peer interactions, facilitated by pedagogical tools such as reflections and participation grading, to build a complete 360-degree evaluation process that helps students to critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their learning journey, their peers, and of themselves. When used consistently across a learning journey, FeedbackFruits’ assessment tool suite represents crucial components of authentic assessment and competency-based education, helping students to grow into receptive and curious learners.
Links to Resources
How can people integrate FeedbackFruits with their Brightspace learning environment?
FeedbackFruits is available for purchase as a built in LTI 1.3 integration for Brightspace for clients with the Core Brightspace package. For more information, refer to How to configure LTI 1.3 for Brightspace/D2L