FeedbackFruits Tool Suite Reviews

What I like best about FeedbackFruits is its compatibility with Canvas (LMS). The tools can be embedded in Canvas and use them easily from there.

Some faculty may find there is a learning curve. But I honestly believe anyone can learn how to use the tools quickly, and there are also video tutorials and support 24/7.

ALL the tools offered on the FeedbackFruits suite have been of great value when transitioning from lecturing (passive learning) to active learning strategies.

I use FbF in during my courses in the 'Medicine' curriculum.

I let students first upload an assessment in groups, and let them individually review each other's assessments. It proves to be an excellent tool for:

- Examining what they find difficult, and whether their reviews are in line with my thoughts

- I can respond better in the response-lecture afterwards, since FbF provide me with meta-data on the group. I can 'zoom-in' on this data, and provide better feedback to the students based on this meta-data.

They have a great range of functionality and are always looking to improve and enhance the tools. So, you know the platform will grow to meet the needs of their clients, ensuring they are delivering the best tools that facilitate good pedagogical practice, but more importantly, are easy to use and actually work on a logistical and practical scale in the virtual classroom from 7 to 700 students.

Because there are so many updates and new features in the pipline, I would love to have a way to know what are the new features being worked on, big and small, from DoTanks or day-to-day FeedbackFruits roadmap work. It can be difficult to stay on top of everything new and imporved with all the tools. I Could almost suggest the communication on this be broken down by tool. Even if there is nothing planned to change on a specific tool that can be useful to know. For specific tools knowing in advance what is being worked on, short-, mid-, or long-term. Knowing in advance can help us plan when help guides need to be updated, when features are added or functionality changes mean the tool can be used for different learning or assessment tasks, we can warn students of a change to their view when that change comes into effect during the time they are using the tool.

Using the Group Member Evaluation tool, we are able to assess a student's attainment of a unit's teamwork learning outcome.

I like the interactive document the most as I am able to post questions on the document. Students will then be able to participate in discussion by contributing their thoughts on the document (judgment / case study / report etc). In the past, students tend to google their answers without actually read the article. Hence with the use of interactive document, I can actually get the students to read the article and share their personal thoughts based on what they have read and not copy paste the answer from the Internet.

It would be amazing if the design of the interactive page can be more colourful.

I am able to get students to engage in an interactive discussion albeit on a document. With the use of FeedbackFruits, students are able to monitor their own learning progress as well as start a new discussion amongst the students.

It was easy to navigate, most especially for my students.

My school's current LMS is not compatible yet with FeedbackFruits.

Exploring and using the tool will help you appreciate it all the more.

My students are not entirely dependent of me for direct teaching during our online class. Discussion is easier because they are more or less prepared by doing the pre-discussion tasks assigned.

All of the tools are easy to set up, adapt and implement. I have used the Group Member evaluation for a group assignment for a cohort of 500 students and, Interactive Document and Peer Review for a small cohort of 30. Despite the difference in cohort size, the student experience was the same. Once the students familiarised themselves with how the tools worked, the student found the tools easy to use and completed the activities in engaging ways. They were able to give peer feedback in a very supported environment within this tool. The self-evaluation embedded in the Group Member Evaluations also gave great insights into how the students viewed their contribution to their group project and whether it matched the evaluation given by their group members.

Link between LMS and FeedbackFruits sometimes lagged.

The results download was not well organised; however that has now been updated.

Easy to forget to add the Instructions section as the add sections is at the bottom of the page.

I am delighted with the breadth of tools available with the Feedback FruitsTool Suite. The individual applications are smart, intuitive, quirky, fun and eminently valuable for engaging students. I have used the self and peer feedback tool which incorporates reflection. Student feedback on the process was better than I could have anticipated. Students enjoyed giving and receiving feedback and told me they 'loved' the quirky fruit names the tool gives them so their responses are anonymous. I am seeking ways to employ different tools provided by Feedback Fruits in different learning strategies and assessment tasks to increase the fun of engaging with the content. My aim is to engage the hard to engage students to create vibrant learning communities within which all students feel valued and included and want to join in the fun of learning and development in my courses. Feedback Fruits provides a powerful means of doing just that. If you haven't seen their range of tools, I encourage all educators and schools to explore what's on offer. You will be delighted just like I am. Enjoy the discovery!

My biggest issue is lack of time to fully explore each modality. What I've found is that the developers are really helpful in supporting us educators to make the most of the tools.

Educators who want to increase students engagement in their learning would be well advised to explore the tools offered by Feedback Fruits. This remarkable group of innovators have a firm grip on what makes engaged pedagogy and how students learn best. Their tools are awesome. Every university would do well to offer these tools to their academics to enliven their courses and create exciting, enriched learning communities.

My PhD has been focused on teaching and assessing teamwork skills through groupwork assignments. I had developed a rubric, the TeamUP rubric with five teamwork domains, each with a number of fine-grained behavioural descriptors. The rubric is used as both a teaching framework and assessment tool. The process of self and peer feedback was somewhat cumbersome and time consuming for students to undertake and for educators to quantify marks. Feedback Fruits self and peer assessment tool took all those problems away. I was able to set up the process and the tool did the rest. The tool enabled a fun, easy to provide way of noting each students' contribution using the behavioural descriptors and domains and provide valuable feedback for each student. The algorithms of Feedback Fruits automatically allocated marks to each response, saving a huge amount of time for me as the assessor. The feedback was immediately available to each student who was then able to write a reflection on their response to the feedback. I was so excited to see how easy and effective the tool made the process. Not one student complained about the process and many told me how much they enjoyed it.

Ease of use in setting the different feedback options up. no need to explain to students how to use the tool. using it on a weekly basis in my own module. I see students grow in the quality of the feedback they are giving and receiving. The tool is valuable addition to our curriculum.

the problem here is that feedback we give is taken seriously

Feedback students are giving each other in a more constructive way, the feedback is also very easly downloadable, which makes it easy to also use it in their assessments

As an internal advisor, I like that I can initiate colleagues to the tool help them on their way and then point them to the help desk function should they have questions.

Also, in the 1,5 year that I know the tool, it has kept on developing, which I like.

As a teacher, I like the multitude of options in the tool, that correspond to a variety of didactical applications. There is a learning curve, but not too long and the look and feel is very consistent throughout the options.

As of yet, it is geared towards individual assignments. It's a pity that students and teachers can't visualise and aggregate the feedback and learning that takes place across assignments. This would enable us to capture a student's development. There are very few systems that can do this in a meaningful way. They don't have the quality of feedback that Feedbackfruits delivers. I hope you'll go for that market.

I've overseen a pilot of Feedback Fruits at my institution and have watched academic staff absolutely run with the tools once they have had access. It's exciting to see the way that students have engaged with their learning materials. Customer service is also fantastic!

I don't actually have an answer for this question.

With a major upscale in online learning offerings in 2020, we were looking for tools to drive student engagement in online learning environments.