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Peer Review assignments are an opportunity for students to receive and give feedback through the review of files submitted by other students, which could include documents, audio files and video. Instructors create the review structure, providing evaluation criteria with options of ratings and text responses, choosing the number of self and peer reviews to be completed, and timings. Reviews can be based on individual or group submissions, and instructors will have the option to add a reflection step.

Students can be assessed on several components of the activity, including participation, quality of feedback given to peers, writing the required number of comments, and reviewing feedback. The relative weightings of these components are chosen by the instructor.

Group Member Evaluation assignments are an opportunity to collect feedback about teams or groups and their members. Students can reflect on the group experience and provide confidential feedback to staff, addressing the performance and contributions of individual members, including an optional self-evaluation and reflection step. Group member evaluation assignments can also be used for peer review activities when no document submission step is required. Instructors create the review structure and assign to particular group or all groups within a subject in the LMS.

Students can be assessed on several components of the activity, including participation, quality of feedback given to peers, writing the required number of comments, and reviewing feedback. The relative weightings of these components are chosen by the instructor.

Assignment Review assignments allow students to submit documents, video, audio and image files to be assessed against a rubric or marking scale, and instructors will be able to leave feedback to specific timestamps in video and audio submissions. Instructors can also add a step that prompts students to write an assessed or non-assessed reflection on their work and/or feedback. The scaffolding of feedback review differs from Speedgrader in Canvas LMS as each comment provided by the instructor can initialise a discussion thread between the instructor and student within the assignment.

These tools provide an opportunity for students to work collaboratively in reviewing a document, audio file or video. Instructors can scaffold the activity by placing discussion points, and posing open response or multiple-choice questions, at strategic points throughout the document, audio file or video. Note that open response questions will not be automatically marked, and students will instead assess their answers by comparing it to the model response. Students can also be given the opportunity to start their own discussions or to pose their own questions.

Students can be assessed on several components of the activity, including participation, writing the required number of responses, and quality of contributions to the activity. The relative weightings of these components are chosen by the instructor.

Important: Only copyright compliant materials can be used with FeedbackFruits Interactive Document/Audio/Video. See the copyright guidelines for using published materials in LMS activities for instructions on how to determine if a resource can be used with FeedbackFruits.

In a Group Formation activity, instructors can set up a survey and the student responses will be used to allocate students to groups. Students can be split into groups within existing groups/sections within the subject, such as tutorial sections. When setting up the survey, teachers can rank questions by importance and whether students with similar or different responses should be grouped together, along with the size of the group. Any students that cannot be grouped by the tool can be manually added to groups before the teacher publishes the group set to the LMS. Once published, these group sets will appear in the People tab of the subject and can be used for any activities regardless of whether they use FeedbackFruits.

Skill Review provides a similar experience to the ‘no submission’ assignment in LMS Speedgrader, and has the same features as Assignment Review, but without a submission requirement. Skill review can be used for assessing and providing feedback on oral presentations, technical skills and other in-class activities that do not require submissions from the student. Instructors can also add a step that prompts students to write an assessed or non-assessed reflection on their work and/or feedback. Instructors provide feedback to students via written comments, rubrics or marking scales. Each instructor comment can facilitate a discussion between instructor and student on the feedback provided.

Self Assessment of Work and Self Assessment of Skills allow instructors to create a structured reflection activity to support students. The former tool can be used where students are required to submit a file (e.g. an essay, report, podcast or video), while the latter tool can be used when no student submission is required (e.g. an oral presentation, technical skill or work placement). Instructors can provide students with rubrics or marking scales to evaluate themselves, or simply require a written reflection. Instructors can also add their own feedback.

In Comprehension activities, the instructor will provide a list of topics for students to address while they read, watch, or listen to the resource provided. Students will annotate the resource and link it to the relevant topic. Comprehension activities can be used for annotated bibliographies, thematic analysis, reflections on a resource, or to provide scaffolding or guidance for reading and watching tasks. There are also a small number of grading options available.

Students can be assessed on several components of the activity, including participation, writing the required number of annotations, and quality of contributions to the activity. The relative weightings of these components are chosen by the instructor.

These Discussion activities facilitate and structure student-student discussions. Discussion on Topic activities will create individual discussion threads for each student’s response to the topic set by the instructor, while Discussion on Work requires students to submit file(s) that will then be used as a discussion prompt. Discussion on Topic activities can be set up as assigned discussions or free form discussions, whereas Discussion on Work activities will require students to complete a randomly allocated peer review before they are able to access the open discussion. Discussion activities can be used for activities where teachers would like to include discussion in addition to peer review, and some blog assignments.

As noted above: Discussion Assignment is an assessment tool. Discussion forums in Canvas LMS or other integrated technologies are more suitable for open discussions, and question and answer forums.