FeedbackFruits Peer Assessment

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A comprehensive checklist created with our expert partner
institutions to assist you in finding the most suitable peer
assessment tool for your courses.

Peer assessment

Opportunities and challenges

Feedback is regarded as a key element
to successful teaching and learning,
being “one of the most powerful
influences on learning and
achievement”, as shared by John
Hattie, an influential educator.
Maintaining continuous feedback
significantly enhances students'
Appearing usually in the form of peer
and group review, peer feedback
fosters learners' objectivity, critical
thinking, motivation and engagement
throughout the learning experience.
However, facilitating peer/group
feedback presents instructors with two
major challenges:

subject matter knowledge,

engagement, and motivation for 1 - Low feedback quality

learning.

The peer feedback quality from peers

Powerful, effective feedback needs to
come from both sides. In other words,
student-to-student or peer feedback is
as important as teacher-to-student
rarely compares to that of teachers.
This is in part because students tend to
value comments from teachers over
their peers, and find it hard pinpointing
problems in others' work.

feedback.

2 - Free-riding and lack of group

contribution

Students are often not motivated to

take part in the group assessment
process. The reason lies in the fact that
the feedback they received from
teammates lacks specificity.
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Peer assessment

Opportunities and challenges

So how can instructors tackle these In supporting faculties improve peer
issues and implement the optimal peer assessment, we’ve heard complaints
feedback process in physical, online or about how time consuming it is to sort
hybrid setting?

out the features of many available

teaching tools and decide on the most
Pedagogical technology presents appropriate ones.

institutions a great solution, by

introducing a variety of teaching tools That’s why we’ve compiled a detailed
to support course design.

checklist covering all the features

instructors might like to consider when
Understanding this potential, thinking about adopting a peer or group
FeedbackFruits develop pedagogical review tool. Hope you will find it useful!

tools that help optimize different

teaching aspects, including peer
assessment.

Learn more about our peer assessment tools

Peer Review

A tool that streamlines formative/summative

assessment on flexible criteria and reflection.

Group Member Evaluation

A tool that provides transparency and

streamlines the way students give feedback
to their group members.

Self Assessment

A tool to help instructors improve the

facilitation of the self-evaluation process.
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Table of contents

Peer Review features checklist

How easy and efficient is the tool to use for instructors and students?
5

Which functionalities or features do I need?

9

Does the tool meet my integration requirements?

10

How much support do I receive from the tool provider?

11

What about Privacy, Data Protection, and Rights?

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About FeedbackFruits

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Appendix: Feature glossary 14

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Peer Assessment tool features

checklist
When choosing an e-learning tool, Trying to answer all these questions for
there are several questions you need several tools can take ages. Our
to keep in mind checklist on the following pages will
save you time by providing insights into
How easy and efficient is the tool to our peer assessment tools in
use for instructors and students? comparison with Peergrade by Eduflow.
Which functionalities or features do The content is segmented to answer
I need? each of these five questions.
Does the tool meet my integration
requirements?
How much support do I receive
from the tool provider?
What about Privacy, Data
Protection, Rights?

1. How easy and efficient is the tool to use...

1.1. For teachers

Features FeedbackFruits Peergrade

Mark students’ individual contributions relative to a group Yes No

View, filter and compare individual results and group results Yes Partially

Plagiarism detection No No

Customizable instructions (also for feedback criteria) Yes Yes

Scaffolded deadlines Yes No

Multiple evaluations/ reviews Yes Yes

Reviewer and submitter anonymity Yes Yes

Hold feedback Yes Yes

Peer evaluation learning analytics dashboard Yes Yes

Flagging (overview) Yes Yes

Seeding No No

Moderate results Yes Yes

Detect outliers Yes No

To learn more about the features, please refer to the feature glossary

1. How easy and efficient is the tool to use...

1.1. For teachers

Configure different steps

Collaboration options
of the review process

Tool Providers FeedbackFruits Peergrade

Individuals reviewing individuals (automatic allocation) Yes Yes

Individuals reviewing individuals within a group (on both

Yes Yes
deliverables and skills)

Group delivery and individual peer review to other groups Yes Yes

Manual allocation of peers or groups to review (teacher

Yes No
allocates the reviewers)

Self selection of peers to review (students) Yes No

Self assessment of team work Yes Partially

Self assessment of team deliverables Yes Partially

Self-assessment of individual work Yes No

Teacher override of allocation Yes Partially

S o far, faculties are really pleased with the data insights that they are
able to receive in FeedbackFruits, and notably the insights into
individual contribution on group projects.”
— Cassie Scanella, Instructional Designer, Columbia

University SPS

eature glossary

To learn more about the features, please refer to the F

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1. How easy and efficient is the tool to use...

1.1. For teachers

Configure the grade based

Granular Grading
on different aspects

Tool Providers FeedbackFruits Peergrade

Participation Yes Yes

Student performance Yes Yes

Quality of students’ work Yes Yes

Quality of peer feedback Yes No

Combination of the above aspects Yes No

To learn more about the features, please refer to the Feature glossary

Features FeedbackFruits Peergrade

Export feedback, submissions and analytics (.csv file) Yes Yes

Automatic notifications to students for deadlines, feedback

Yes Yes
or grade

Automated matching/ peer allocation Yes Yes

Scalable assignments/ copy to and from blueprint courses Yes No

The students who use Peer Review achieve much

better learning and much better grades. Students
see this is a really nice thing to do.”
— Irene Lona, Instructional Designer, OsloMET

The platform's design is elegant and

user friendly.”
— Student, Griffith University
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1. How easy and efficient is the tool to use...

1.2. For students

Features FeedbackFruits Peergrade

360 feedback loop Yes Partially

Self assessment functionality Yes Yes

Edit reviews and submissions Yes Yes

Non-submitters can review Yes No

Support of different file types (doc, video, audio, slide, etc.) Yes Partially

Annotation options (inline) Yes Yes

Online discussion / collaborative learning on feedback Yes Yes

Automated email communication Yes Yes

View reviews written by others Yes Yes

Allowing to submit unrestricted number of reviews Yes No

Reverse reviews: feedback on feedback Yes Partially

Online discussion with mandatory review of comments Yes No

To learn more about the features, please refer to the Feature glossary

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2. Which functionalities or features do I need?

1.2. For students

Features FeedbackFruits Peergrade

Option to make a question optional or mandatory Partially No

Customizable rubric and criteria (yes/no | scale | question) Yes Yes

Qualitative and quantitative feedback Yes Yes

Students see assessment criteria and deliverables Yes Yes

Feedback on video, website, text, audio Yes Yes

Adjustable and extensive rubric possibilities Yes Yes

Adjustable grading (progress made + review scores) Yes Yes

Extend deadlines Yes Yes

Criteria repository: to resuse a subset of criteria Yes Yes

Export assessment criteria + metadata Yes Yes

The FeedbackFruits Peer Review was highly

scalable for large student cohorts and ideally
suited for asynchronous online delivery.”
— Denise Kreiger, Educational Consultant &
Learning Designer, Boston University
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3. Does the tool meet my integration requirements?

Features FeedbackFruits Peergrade

LTI 1.1 and 1.3 integration Yes Partially

Scoped API integration for Blackboard, D2L/Brightspace,

Yes No
Canvas and Moodle
Automatic Group and Section Synchronization from LMS
Yes No
Course

API LMS gradebook integration Yes No

API LMS rubric integration Partially Yes

Shared rubrics and criteria among teachers in LMS Yes No

Ability to remove students who have dropped out Yes No

Ability to export questions / criteria Yes Yes

Automatic grade sync to LMS Yes Yes

Deeper grade automatic sync (Grade breakdown) Partially No

LMS deep linking: calendar events / emails Yes No

Mobile friendliness / available across devices Yes Yes

Learning analytics integration with LMS Yes Yes

Compatibility and optimized for ‘conditional release’ LMS Yes Partially

Compatibility with Chrome/ Safari/ Firefox browsers Yes Yes

To learn more about the features, please refer to the Feature glossary

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4. How much support do I receive from the tool provider?

Features FeedbackFruits Peergrade

White labeling / branding No No

Offline and online support Yes Yes

Off hour support Yes No

Help and training guides Yes Yes

Roadmap transparency Yes Yes

Feature request option Yes Yes

Documented API Yes Yes

Hosting transparency Yes Yes

Upgrade schedule & releases (documented) Yes Yes

Scalability (>60K students) Yes Yes

Consultancy on implementation Yes Partially

CSAT measurements in place Yes Partially

I just want to give a huge kudos to the

FeedbackFruits team because they have been
incredible with their support in every situation.”
— Danielle D’Souza, Educational Support Specialist,
Queen’s University
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5. What about Privacy, Data Protection, and Accessibility?

Features FeedbackFruits Peergrade

GDPR, FERPA, FIPPA Yes Yes

WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 AA Yes Yes

DRP, BCP in place Yes Partially

I immediately saw FeedbackFruits' Peer Review tool

offered really many advantages over Canvas's native
peer review tool. In particular, FeedbackFruits
offered the support multiple deadlines that we were
looking for. It offered students a really clear set of
steps to find and complete the peer review task.”
— Linda Lee, Director of Instructional Design,

The Wharton School of Business

I find it has challenged me to really analyse each

piece of writing. The feedback I have received is
very encouraging and perceptive. very helpful.”
— Student, University of Tasmania
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About FeedbackFruits
As an edtech company, founded in
the Netherlands in 2012, we strongly
believe that communication and
feedback must travel between both
teachers and students.

From this question, FeedbackFruits

has become a driver of the
transformation to active learning at
the best universities worldwide, with
around 2.2M teachers and students
using FeedbackFruits tools, from the
United States - Ivy League included -
to Europe and Australia.

If you are interested in starting using

these teaching tools for your course,
see our special migration offer for
Peergrade/Eduflow users.

We have a special offer for institutions looking to

migrate from Peergrade/Eduflow.

Visit our website below to learn more.

SEE OUR MIGRATION OFFER

www.feedbackfruits.com
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Appendix: Feature glossary

User experience - Teachers Description

Mark students' individual Contribution of individual group members, calculate PAFs

contributions relative to a (Peer Assessment Factors) and SAPAs (Self-Assessment
group over Peer Assessment)

View, filter, and compare Teaching staff should be able to view individual and group
individual and group results results

Checks the handed-in work for copyright-infringement or

Plagiarism detection
plagiarism.

Allows instructions to be written by the person setting up

Customizable instructions
the activity that students will be able to view inside the
(also for feedback criteria)
activity itself.

Set and modify the deadlines for the handing-in of work,

Scaffolded deadlines
giving/reading of reviews, and completion of activities.

Multiple evaluations / Allows more than one evaluation to be given/received per

reviews student or piece of work.

Reviewer and submitter Allows for optional anonymity for students giving or
anonymity receiving reviews, or both.

A teacher has the ability to hold the feedback until a specific

Hold feedback
moment in time before releasing it to the students.

Peer evaluation learning Results should be able to be presented in a chart / table or

analytics dashboard diagram.
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Allow students to flag posts to their teachers by selecting

Flagging (Overview)
from given reasons

Each group has at least one 'strong' student within the

Seeding
group (even spread)

Moderate results Teaching staff need to be able to moderate the result

Teachers can quickly identify out-of-the-ordinary situations

Detect outliers
in teamwork assignments
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Collaboration options Configure different steps of the review process

Individuals reviewing Students individually hand in their assignment and then

individuals (automatic assigned to review the submitted work of one or more
allocation) random peers

Individuals reviewing
individuals within a group Students individually hand in their assignments and
(on both deliverables and provide reviews in their groups
skills)

Group delivery and Students hand in the assignments as group and each
individual peer review to student randomly get work distributed from other groups
other groups to review

Manual allocation of peers

to review (teacher allocates Teachers can assign which students review which students
the reviewers)

Self selection of peers to Students can choose who they want to give feedback on
review (students) the assignment

Self assessment of team Students can evaluate their own contribution to the group
work performance

Self assessment of team Students can evaluate the quality of the group’s
deliverables assignment

Self assessment of Students are able to review their own work before
individual work reviewing their peers

Teacher override of
Allocate teachers to grading assignments
allocation
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Teachers can configure the grade based on the student participation,

Granular grading student performance, student engagement, student quality of
contribution or a combination of all of the above.

Participation Grade students on their participation in group work

Student performance Grade students on their contribution to group work

Quality of students’ work Grade students based on their work quality

Quality of feedback Grade students based on their given feedback

Combination of the above Configure how many points to give to different component
aspects of the assignment

Edit Reviews and

Allow given reviews to be edited after submission.
submissions
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Export feedback,
submissions and analytics The results can be exported as an excel or csv file
(csv, excel files)

Automatic notifications Automatically send notifications to students about

deadlines, feedback or grade deadlines, feedback or grade being given

Automatically allocate reviewers to ensure that all students

Automated matching/ peer
receive the best feedback possible and see submissions of
allocation
different quality

Any modern day peer assessment system used in learning

Scalable assignments/ copy
environments should provide methods to scale the
to other courses
feedback process
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User experience – Student Description

360 feedback loop Support 360 feedback learning designs

Self assessment Allow students to assess themselves according to given

functionality criteria

Edit reviews and

Allow given reviews to be edited after submission
submissions

Allow students who did not submit a file to still take part in
Non-submitters can review
reviews

Self assessment Allows students to assess themselves according to given

functionality criteria.

Edit Reviews and

Allow given reviews to be edited after submission.
submissions

Allows students who did not submit a file to still take part
Non submitters can review
in reviews

If you need further information about these features, visit our Help center
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Support of different Allows for various file types to be processed inside the
multimedia files activity (see here for an exhaustive list)

Allows for adding inline comments to a document, video,

Annotation options (inline)
or audio file

Online discussion /
Allows for online discussions to take place with the option
collaborative learning on
of reviewing or responding to each others comments
feedback

Automated email
Automatically send emails to students
communication

View reviews written by Allows students to view reviews left on other students’
others work

Allow submission of
Removes the upper limit of how many reviews each
unrestricted number of
student is allowed to give
reviews

Reverse reviews: feedback Allow the original authors of the reviewed submissions to
on feedback rate the reviews they received from their peers

Online discussion with

Mandate that students review each other’s comments in an
mandatory peer review of
online discussion
comments
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Feedback, criteria & rubric

Description
management

When inputting questions, teachers can select whether or

Option to make a question
not students are able to continue before answering the
optional or mandatory
question

Customizable rubric and

Allows for creation of custom and multiple criteria types in
criteria types (yes/no; scale;
a single activity.
question)

Assessment criteria can be created in the assessment

Qualitative and quantitative
tool. Teaching staff members need the ability to allow for
feedback
quantitative and qualitative input

Students need to be able to see the assessment criteria

Students see assessment
used for the peer assessment process while also seeing
criteria + deliverables
the deliverable

Feedback on video, website,

Allows feedback to be given on diverse media formats.
text, audio

Adjustable and extensive Allows creation of rubrics, scale-rating criteria, comment

rubric possibilities criteria, and any combination thereof.

Adjustable grading Teachers can put weights on different questions in the

(progress made + review rubric, sections in the rubric, assignments and on how
scores) feedback scores and submission scores combine.

Allows the teacher to extend given deadlines within an

Extend Deadlines
activity

Criteria repository: to reuse Allows feedback criteria to be drawn from an existing

a (sub)set of criteria repository.

Export assessment criteria Allows for creation of custom and multiple criteria types in
and metadata a single activity
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Integration Description

FeedbackFruits tool suite is fully integrated with LTI 1.0 and

LTI 1.1 and 1.3 integration
1.3

LMS API integration for

FeedbackFruits receives information from your LMS on
Blackboard, D2L
which students and groups are in your course so that this
Brightspace, Canvas, and
information can be synced with FeedbackFruits activities
Moodle
Automatic Group and
Student groups managed inside the LMS can be synced
Section Synchronization
with FeedbackFruits activities
from LMS Course

For Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation, a grade

API LMS gradebook
can be automatically sent back to and adjusted in the LMS
integration
(Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace)
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API LMS rubric integration Sync rubrics from your LMS into the tools

Shared rubrics and criteria Rubrics and criteria used in one activity can be reused in
among teachers in LMS other activities by different teachers

Ability to remove students Allow students who are no longer part of the class, group,
who have dropped out or activity to be removed from the activity

Ability to export questions / Questions and criteria created in an activity can be

criteria exported as an excel/.csv file

Automatic grade sync to

Automatically transfer the grade to LMS gradebook
LMS

Deeper grade automatic Students are able to see the breakdown of their grades,
sync (Grade breakdown) thus understanding why they were given the grade

LMS deep linking: calendar LMS deep linking: calendar events and emails contain links
events / emails to assignments in LMS

Mobile Friendliness / The application is supported on both Windows/Mac

available across devices computers as well as Android/Apple mobile devices.

Being able to give back data to a data store system that

Learning analytics serves as a repository for learning records collected from
integration with LMS connected systems where learning activities are
conducted. (xAPI)

Compatibility and optimized

Compatibility with different LMSs
for ‘conditional release’ LMS

Compatibility with Chrome / Compatibility with multiple browsers (Chrome/ Firefox/

Safari / Firefox browsers Safari)
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Support & customer

Description
service

Allows rebranding of product to make it appear to come

White labeling/ branding
from another company or institution

The vendor is available to provide high quality support at

Offline and online support least between 8am-8pm Monday to Friday (max 24 hours
response time)

Off hour support Support available outside of standard working hours

Instructional and informational resources available on the

Help and training guides
website and upon request

The vendor has a developed roadmap for the next 12-24

Roadmap transparency
months

The vendor has a process to support requests for new or

Feature request option
enhanced features

The system has a fully-featured, documented API based on

Documented API
commonly-used standards

Data is stored under Australian & EU legal jurisdiction, this

Hosting transparency
is auditable

Upgrade schedule & Approximately every 3 weeks release new functionality and
releases (documented) improvements in software + separate beta functionality

The product has been designed to scale to at least 65,000

Scalability (>60K students)
students

The vendor has the capacity to consult for implementation,

Consultancy on
management and/or upgrades, or has local partners who
implementation
can provide this service

CSAT scores are expressed on a scale of 0 to 100 percent,

CSAT measurement in place with a score of 100 representing total customer
satisfaction
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Security / privacy /
Description
accessibility

GDPR, FERPA, FIPPA GDPR, FERPA, FIPPA compliant

Compliant with the WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 AA certification

WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 AA
criteria

Disaster Recovery Plan, and Business Continuity Plan in

DRP, BCP in place
place

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