We are excited to announce the launch of our latest DoTank development in collaboration with Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG): the new Group Formation tool.

Now teachers can make effective groups, automatically. Group Formation helps teachers easily create inclusive and well-balanced groups, aiming to enhancing group dynamics, learning outcomes, student satisfaction, and engagement.

As well, Group Formation helps to form equitable groups, preventing student alienation, and thus supporting further inclusivity. DEI departments are able to create templates, and provide teachers with a starting point to ensure more equitable and inclusive group projects.

How does it work: Group Formation simplifies and enhances group formation by leveraging strategic algorithms. Teachers set up a survey for their students, and depending on the goals of the teacher per question, students will get grouped with peers who answered similarly or differently than them. In result, this will allow for better compatibility, but also create groups in which students can complement and learn from each others’ skills. Read more about the algorithm here.

The groups created in Group Formation Tool aren’t only usable in FeedbackFruits tools. In the near future, teachers will be able to automatically publish those groups into their LMS and use them for all other assignments. This process differs per LMS:

Why we made this: Developed to address the time-consuming and often ineffective process of forming student groups, this tool offers a streamlined solution for educators seeking to optimize collaborative learning environments, while promoting inclusive and well-balanced groups, and enhancing learning outcomes, student satisfaction, and engagement.

Availability: This tool will be available for Toolsuite Partners, and its integration varies per LMS. If you or your institution are interested, please contact your FeedbackFruits Pilot and Partner Success Manager or your main FeedbackFruits contact person to discuss further your integration and toolsuite options.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Learning Analytics solution. This innovative solution is designed to empower data-driven individuals in the education sector by providing comprehensive insights into student achievement and engagement. 

What are Learning Analytics? Learning Analytics appear in a new space within FeedbackFruits platform: Insights. Here, teachers and learning designers can inspect and showcase evidence in feedback and assessment with FeedbackFruits data to improve teaching quality and student experience. Furthermore, it also promotes evidence-based learning design, and supports data-informed teaching interventions for students at risk. These benefits ultimately lead to an enhancement in student outcomes and retention.

Different parts of Learning Analytics will become available in the upcoming releases, the first release being: Course exports. In the future, you can expect cohort or program exports, and student engagement data.

Our Course exports feature streamlines the process of accessing and exporting student data on feedback ratings for each course. It consolidates data from various FeedbackFruits activities into a single export, saving time on data management and merging. Institutions can now seamlessly integrate this raw data into their existing institutional data infrastructures for comprehensive analysis and insights.

Why we made this: Our Learning Analytics solution simplifies the process of assessing student progress and activity effectiveness. It provides clear insights for educators to track student development, identify at-risk students, and analyze data effortlessly. By integrating FeedbackFruits data, educators can optimize teaching strategies more effectively.

Availability: For now, this feature is released as Feature Flag and only available upon request for Toolsuite Partners. If you or your institution are interested, please contact your FeedbackFruits Pilot and Partner Success Manager or your main FeedbackFruits contact person.

As part of our ongoing commitment to enhance pedagogy, learning design, and learning activity management, we are continuously refining our tools to better serve your needs.

We're pleased to announce that we're gearing up to release new workflow iterations for our feedback tools. Building upon the success of our recent updates to Skill Review and Assignment Review, we're now turning our focus to Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation.

Our primary goal is to provide an intuitive and seamless interactive experience, empowering users to deliver high-quality feedback effortlessly. The upcoming review workflows will streamline the feedback-giving process, featuring a refined interface, improving usability while maintaining familiarity.

Excited to learn more? Stayed tuned, we will be releasing more information soon to all newsletter subscribers, and Pilots and Partners. As well, please don't hesitate to reach out to your FeedbackFruits Pilot and Partner Success Manager or your main point of contact at FeedbackFruits.

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