Feedback Fruits - Adding a Peer Review to a Learning Space

Activate peer learning by guiding your students to review each other's work.

The Peer Review function of FeedbackFruits allows students to review and critique each other's work in VU Collaborate. Teachers can lay down specifications of how the feedback should be provided within the activity.

 

Add a Peer Review to a Module

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1. In a unit space navigate to the Learning Space then into a Module (or Sub-Module) you would like to add the activity.
2. Select Add Activities then FeedbackFruits.

3. The first time you add a Feedback Fruit activity, you will be asked to grant the software access, select Continue to Permission, to grant access.

4. Scroll through the available activity options and select Peer Review.

Watch how to set up FeedbackFruits Peer Review

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How to set up FeedbackFruits Peer Review from FeedbackFruits on YouTube

 

1: Enter Instructions

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1. Firstly, give your Peer Review Activity a (1) title, you can select to expand to (2) fullscreen to get a better view.
2. Enter (3) instructions to inform your students what they need to submit and how they are to give feedback to their peers.
3. You may attach a file, images or audio to the instructions if needed by selecting the  (4) audio mic symbol and the attached clip symbol.
4. If required, select (5) Change to modify the hand-in and review collaboration options.

 

4. Individual assignment is the default setting. 

Default option - Hand in individually, review individually

Collaboration Options

 However, this option can be changed to one of the following options:

• Hand in Individually - Review (a) Individually by anyone, (b) Within groups, or (c) Outside of their group
• Hand in As a Group - Review (a) Individually, or (b) As a group

 

2: Select Submission settings

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1. Enter submission details to inform the student what is required by when.
This includes, required number of files (1), due date and time (2), types of files allowed (3), optionally select submitter anonymity (4), and instructions (5).

3: Given Review - Choose the Options for Providing Feedback

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1. Use this section ( Given reviews ) to set up how feedback is presented. There are several options available to customise how the feedback is provided to students.

This process allows you to select review feedback criteria (1), number of reviews (2) required, optional self-assessment (3), new user interface (4), due date and time (5), allocations (keep automatic - one by one) (6), anonymity (toggle on if required) (7), select when students see feedback (recommend after the review deadline) (8), and instructions (if required) (9).

There is an information icon next to each of the options which explains what they do when you hover your mouse over them.

Feedback Criteria

1. The next step is to establish the feedback criteria and how it will be captured ( Rubric, Scale and Comments ). The selection(s) made here will assist the students with providing the feedback uniformly. Firstly select how to add a new criteria, create new, select from My library, or copy from a recent peer review.

2. Next start to build your criteria, you can select as many selection as you like.

3. The scale option gives students the ability to assign a numerical value to the work completed by their peers.

4. The rubric will need to be created here. Similar to rubrics created for assessments, these rubrics will need to be separated by increments with descriptions of each means.

5. The comments section can be allocated and regulated to provide specific information to the student.

 

4: Review Feedback

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An option can be entered requiring students to write a reflection on the feedback they received too. Once students have provided the feedback, they can see their peer review. 

Selecting the + button in purple at the end of number 4 in the set-up, you can choose how many points to go for each part of the process when students complete their work. Again, the settings are already there; you only need to adjust the points for each. 

 

Monitoring and Grading

Monitoring Student Progress

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1. The progress and overall statistics of each student will appear for the teacher once the peer review is fully set up.

2. The progress of the students will be visible as soon as they start using it. The dashboard will display how many have completed and how many are in the process.

The dashboard will also display completion statistics per student and for the cohort.

3. It is also possible to view what students have been graded by in their respective rubrics.

 

Checking Grades for the Peer Review

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Associating Peer Review with a grade item

1. In the Gradebook, there needs to be a Grade Item set up for the peer review. To learn how to create a grade item, see Creating a grade item.

2. Click on the Peer Review name, to view and edit the peer view.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select Add a grade item ...

4. Select the Grade Item, then select Save to confirm changes.

5. Once created it will show up as being associated with an external learning tool. 

Publish Grades

2. Once the peer review is closed, select Publish in section 4, and the grades will get automatically entered into the Gradebook. You will be able to see these by going to Grades then to Enter Grades.