(03-11-23) The new release update is scheduled for 3-4 pm CET and contains the following:

Improvements for teachers and LMS admins

Pre-announcement

Since September 1st 2023, FeedbackFruits integrates with Turnitin, the well-known plagiarism checker. We aim to detect and prevent plagiarism in student work, ensuring more honest and original student submissions.

The new Turnitin UX improvements will allow teachers to see at a glance which percentage of plagiarism each student submission has. Now, in the ‘Submissions step’ we have added a ‘Plagiarism check’ column, indicating the percentage of plagiarism found on each submission. When the teacher clicks on a percentage, more information about the submission can be found:

As well, this window will allow teachers to access the full Turnitin plagiarism report by just clicking on ‘View report’.

(Fig.1: Submissions module displaying the different percentages. The intermittent orange dot represents the loading plagiarism check.)

(Fig.2: When clicking on a submission, displaying the different percentages.)

NOTE: FeedbackFruits DOES NOT do the plagiarism check nor has any plagiarism settings —this is carried by Turnitin. FeedbackFruits only displays the plagiarism percentage detected by Turnitin, which is based on the settings that the teacher or the institutions have set up themselves. For more information, please see the related articles:

Why we made this: We want to enhance the teacher user experience, making it quicker and easier to understand the plagiarism data, and help promote more original and copy-free submissions.

We are continuing the redesign and refinement of our grading module (see our previous release here). In this release, we are adding learning step (or module) headers, categorizing the different grading facets per step. Now both teachers and students can easily understand from which part of the assignment each grade comes from. 

(Fig. 3: Grading module from the student view.)

Why we made this: We have made this modification to enhance the user experience, providing a detailed, comprehensible and accurate grading module. We aim to help students better understand their grades, and save time from teachers answering student questions.

We are very excited to announce that by the end of the year, our toolpicker will have a new, fresh look! Don’t fret: all the current functionalities will be there, just more organized.

In the past months we have focused on enhancing our user experience by making our tools easier to use and understand. That’s why we have decided to streamline the toolpicker design.

(Fig. 5: Transformation from the old toolpicker to the new and improved version.)

How will it look like?

Why we made this: In the past years, we have added more and more features to our tool suite. Consequently, pages like our once simple toolpicker, ended up being more complex than desired. Before, it displayed the 15 FeedbackFruits tools. Now, it has other functionalities such as: Copy from existing, Recent activities, My library, and Learning activities from the institution. This can get crowded and slow-down user navigation. A newer, cleaner version will aim to provide a better user experience, faster navigation, and easy-to-find and understand layout.

(Fig. 8: Current toolpicker version. Displaying Institutional templates, My Library, Recent Activities and the toolsuite in one page.)

With our Automated Feedback Coach 2.0 available in more regions, we are happy to communicate that on the 29th of December 2023, Automated Feedback Coach 2.0 will replace its first version, Automated Feedback Coach 1.0.
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Why are we phasing this out: Since its release in 2019, the usage and possibilities of AI have changed drastically. This is why we developed a more powerful version of the Automated Feedback Coach. The new version is not only faster, more reliable and accurate in responses —it can analyze topic-specific feedback (for instance, based on Peer Review criteria), and it is overall much more useful for students.