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:

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.

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.

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

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:

Options for Teacher reviews students:

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

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.

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 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.

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.
​

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.