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Assignment Review: For Teachers
Assignment Review: For Teachers

This article is a step by step guide for teachers on using Assignment Review tool, with all information any teacher needs to get started.

Updated over a week ago

Introduction

In this article we will walk you through how to use Assignment Review from the perspective of a teacher.

If you’d like more information on how this tool works, you can check out the overview article here:

Tool In Action

Accessibility

We're devoted to making our tools as accessible as possible for all learners - to read more about accessibility in FeedbackFruits tools, check this article: Accessibility: Within FeedbackFruits Tools.

Overall Student Progress

At the top of the assignment, you will see the Overall student progress overview. Click on Statistics per active student to see individual students' progress. Here you can see if students have read the instructions, handed in their work, read their feedback and finally, if students have written their reflections, if enabled.

Fig. 1: Overall student progress: Active assignment

Click on the headers in each column to change the order (ascending or descending) in which students are displayed. You can also click Fullscreen to pop out the full display of student progress.

Fig. 2: Full screen statistics per active student analytics


The check marks under read instructions and submissions mean that that student has finished the step. The light green dot means the student has not read the instructions or submitted his file yet. If you see a red dot, this means the student has missed the deadline for handing in.

Under the Given Reviews and Received Reviews headers, you will find the completion status of each review for each student. If a student has completed the module, it will display ✔ Completed instead of a percentage.

It is also possible to export all the student data into an excel file. This file contains information concerning review ratings, review comments and grading. You can download this export by clicking on the EXPORT ANALYTICS button in the overall student progress window.

Step 1: Instructions

Here, you'll see the instructions you set when you configured the assignment. You can change these by clicking the purple edit button in the top-right corner of the screen.

Collaboration Options

Directly underneath the instructions, you can select options for student collaboration.

When selecting student collaboration options, there are several configurations to choose from. Please bear in mind that collaboration options need to be selected before students participate in the assignment - once a student makes progress, the configurations can't be updated.

Options for students hand in:

  1. Individually

  2. As a group

Options for Teacher reviews students:

  1. Individually. Teacher review students individually. (Disabled if ‘as a group’ option for hand in is chosen).

  2. As a group. Teacher reviews students as a group. (Disabled if ‘individually’ option for hand in is chosen).

  3. Individually, shown as groups. Teacher reviews students individually, but the results will be presented as a group. (Disabled if ‘individually’ option for hand in is chosen).

Step 2: Submissions

Submission Options: Setting Up

When creating your assignment, you can configure submission options for your students.

Required number of files to hand in: Set the amount of files that students are required to hand in. The submission requirement can be set at exactly, minimum or between your chosen amount. Students can always hand in more files than required.

Scheduling deadlines: Set the hand-in deadline. Students have to upload their work before this deadline. After the deadline expires, students will no longer be able to submit their file and receive feedback. If no deadline is specified at this stage, students are free to utilize the submission section and receive feedback at their convenience.

If a deadline for submission has been set for the students, you have the option to allow for students to hand in after the submission deadline has passed. Simply enable this option (as shown on the screenshot below), and students will be able to hand in after the submission deadline as well. Keep in mind that enabling this option will not affect the student analytics - you will still be able to see if students have submitted on time or not.

File requirements: Check the box next to the file type you want your students to hand in. Students will not be able to upload file types to you deselect. For an overview of which formats are supported for each file type, click here.

Please note that embedded audio and video in documents and slideshows cannot be played in FeedbackFruits.

Plagiarism check: If your institution has opted into our Turnitin integration, you can select here whether the check should be toggled on or off. You can read more information here: Turnitin FAQ

Anonymity: The students who review the assignments won't be able to know the name of the peer they are reviewing.

Guiding students (optional): If you have specific hand-in instructions for your students (such as the desired font, line spacing, naming the file, etc.) fill them in here. Example: Please name your student number in the file-name. Upload both your essay and the slides you will use when presenting about your essay.

Submissions: Active Assignment

Once the assignment has been set up, you can see here which students’ have completed their hand-in. It also provides information on whether it is handed in on time and how many days prior to the deadline. If the deadline has passed, but you want students to be able to still submit their work, you can edit the assignment, and either change the deadline, give a deadline extension to a specific student or enable allow late hand-in.

The files handed in shows the documents that the student has submitted.

The students' submissions can also be viewed in the assignment itself. By clicking on the file in the files handed in column in the row for the student's name, you can see which files they have submitted. Click on view to view the submitted work.

Plagiarism check (beta feature)

If you have turned on the Plagiarism check functionality while setting up the activity, here you will see the plagiarism results. Please see more about how to interpret the plagiarism check percentages here. Note that students will not see these results from their end.

This functionality is in beta and requires configuration from an LMS admin and FeedbackFruits. If you are interested, please inform your contact person or Pilot and Partner Manager at FeedbackFruits to guide you through the integration. Read more about FeedbackFruits and Turnitin here.

To view a student submission, please hover over the student name or click on the file button. You will be taken to the following page:

Note: If the student submitted a video, you will see the video player instead of the document.

Step 3: Give feedback on student work

Given feedback on student work: Setting Up

In this step, you can specify criteria to help guide students as they give feedback. Click configure to edit, add, or delete criteria. Click here for a detailed guide on setting criteria.

You can also create reusable explanation cards, which will save you time when providing feedback to your students.

Visibility: Choose when the students can see their feedback. You can set this to immediately, after certain date, or never.

Given feedback on student work: Active Assignment

You can start this process by either clicking the purple Start Reviewing button or if you would like to review specific students or are working together with another instructor, you can start by clicking the name or submission of the student you'd like to review.

If you've selected the collaboration option hand in work individually, show in groups, the students will be displayed in groups, allowing each teacher to easily select the students from groups they've been assigned to review.

Review progress

  • This is the end of the review step. You are able to exit the screen by pressing the arrow button on the top left or continue to the next student by pressing the next student button on the top right.

Note: a smaller version of this screen will show up on the right when you open the student's submission.

Students can comment on your feedback. Click here for an explanation on how to respond to such comments.


Step 4: Received reviews

Received reviews: Setting Up

Setting up received reviews is straightforward since there are only two options for this step.

Feedback-on-feedback: you can toggle whether or not students rate their received feedback on a scale of 1 to 10, with optional written clarification.

Scheduling deadlines: Set the deadline for reviewing received feedback. Leave the deadline blank to allow reviewees to view and their feedback indefinitely, without being too late to review.

Received reviews: Active Assignment

In this step, you will see which students have completed reading their received reviews, which students still need to read all received feedback and which of the students have not started yet.

Step 5: Reflections on the assignment

Reflections: Setting Up

In step 5, The parameters for reflecting on the outcomes of the activity and their learning are set. You can set a deadline, specify the required length of the written reflection (including minimum and maximum word counts), and provide instructions for writing the reflection.

If you prefer not to have students write a reflection, you can remove this step by clicking on the cross in the top-right corner of the step.

Reflections: Active Assignment

Writing a reflection is a valuable step to end an assignment with. The student can for instance write a reflection on how the whole process of giving feedback went. The teacher sees this reflection in an overview in step 5 as shown in the image below.

Here, the teacher can see which groups and specific students have made progress on completing their reflection. Only students and groups with progress in this step are shown. To view all of their reflections, press the view reflections button. If you'd like to read the reflection of a specific student, clicking on view next to the name of the student will show you their reflection.

Grading

Grading: Setting up

After finishing setting up the core of the assignment, it is possible to add the configurable grading module. Click here to learn more about how this grading module works.

Grading: Active Assignment

In this step, you have to access a comprehensive overview detailing the grades of each student within the system.

By default, the grading module is enabled, which you will find at the final step. In the image below, you can see how this will look like. If you have enabled multiple grading facets for this assignment, you can scroll left and right to view the rest of the grade sections. At the far right, there is also an optional grade adjustment . You can add or subtract points for each student.


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