Introduction
This article will walk you through how to set up feedback criteria within our feedback & interactive study material tools. For the purpose of this article, all screenshots have been taken from a sample of our peer review tool.
You can read more about rubrics in practice within Libraries here: Libraries: Introduction to Libraries & Templates
Quick Configuration Video
Feedback Criteria in Action
Setting Up: What Criteria Can I Use?
When using any of our feedback tools (Peer Review, Group Member Evaluation, Assignment Review or Skill Review), you can select the criteria you want your students to use when giving feedback. It is possible to use a combination of a rubric, scale and ungraded comment-only criteria.
Setting Up: Configuring Criteria
When setting up a FeedbackFruits assignment tool, in step 2 (Group member evaluation/Skill Review) or 3 (Peer Review/Assignment Review), you'll see an option for feedback criteria.
Click configure to navigate to the following window.
You can add either a rubric, scale or comment-only criteria.
Under the new criteria selection, you can also choose to import existing criteria from another assignment - your options to import from are eduflow, institutional templates, Learning Design Community or my library.
When choosing to implement a rubric from an existing template/activity, you will be able to preview the rubrics you are importing before implementation.
Setting Up: Import from A Library
You can use our new Learning Design Community to import criteria made by other users or by the FeedbackFruits team. These criteria have been developed in-house collaboratively with instructors and learning designers from our partner institutions.
If you decide to use criteria from a template, you will be taken to a dialogue where you can preview, implement, and edit the criteria prior to implementation.
You can choose to add a mixture of different criteria depending on what suits your use case in a particular assignment.
If you want to read more about the Learning Design Community, you can do so here:
Libraries: Learning Design Community
Setting Up: Creating New Criteria
If you want to create new criteria, choose one of the options - rubric, scale or comment-only criteria. You can have multiple criteria of any combination of these three options in one assignment.
Creating New Criteria: Rubrics
Using rubrics allows the teacher for more complete and complex criteria. Teachers can provide explanations for each level of the criterion and attribute grading points to this.
Rubrics: Adding from Scratch
Select Add Rubric and a new and empty rubric will appear. You can fill it with the criteria on which you want your students to be assessed.
At the top, you can add the levels of the rubric and change the title and the amount of points that are ascribed to each level. You can add more levels by clicking on the + icon at the right of the level screen.
By clicking on the three dots next to the level heading, you can access a menu to delete, add new levels beside or move the selected level.
On the left, you can add your criteria. Per criterion, you can set if students are allowed to write comments about this criterion and how many comments they are required to write (next to selecting one of the levels).
You can delete criteria by clicking on the X next to the criteria title. You can add more move or add criteria and levels by clicking on the directional arrow to the left of the title of the criterion/level.
For each criterion you can add a description per level, explaining when a student would, for example, score "Beginning".
When you are finished adding criteria, you can press done at the bottom right of the screen. Or, if you want to add more criteria, click on add criterion.
Rubrics: Saving From Within an Interactive Study Material (ISM) Activity
Within an ISM (Interactive Study Material) activity, you can save a discussion rubric based on your current criteria, or create one from scratch to capture the particular criteria you want to assess for.
Rubrics can be used consistently across all ISM types (video, document, audio) and are fully compatible with existing ISM features. Additionally, the rubrics and related user interface meet accessibility standards, ensuring that all users can effectively use the feature.
Rubrics-based feedback is integrated into student portfolios and platform learning analytics - they can also be used with Acai rubric-based suggested ratings features.
The learning step can be added to any ISM activity by clicking on the + (plus) icon on the left rail at the bottom of an activity in edit mode.
Once the learning step is added, you can configure them to your preferred specifications.
When you begin giving ratings to a student using a rubric, you will be able to see the competency criteria on the left sidebar to select from.
Once you've finished selecting the appropriate level for the contributor, you can see your selected level on the left bar in green - you can also see along the bottom of the page that you've reached the end of giving feedback to this person.
Rubrics: Saving a Rubric to the Library within an Activity
If you already have a FeedbackFruits activity with a rubric, you can save it to a library that you are a member of. This makes it easy to always find the rubric, and re-use it across your FeedbackFruits activities with the click of a button.
You can see whether or not a rubric is saved to a library by checking whether or not the current criteria section has contributes towards in the top tagline - this will show you the competency area of the rubric the criteria is linked to.
Creating New Criteria: Scale
After selecting Add Scale Rating, the following window will appear.
For each criterion, you have to fill in a title. Optionally, you can add a further explanation of the criterion.
You can choose which type of rating you want to use, where students get a score on a scale of either 3, 5, 7 or 10. points.
By default the beginning and end of the scale are named “improvement needed” and “excellent.” You can customize this by changing the text under the headers scale begin and scale end. You can also choose whether or not to allow comments and set a minimum number of required comments per rating.
You can also select whether or not to adjust the lowest rating on the scale to result in 0 points. Bear in mind that even incomplete reviews are visible to the receiver after the deadline passes.
When you are finished adding criteria, you can press done at the bottom right of the screen. Or, if you want to add more criteria, click on add criterion.
Creating New Criteria: Comment-Only
The third option of feedback criteria that can be added to the assignment are comment criteria. As explained above, when using a rubric or scale rating criteria students are also able to write comments (if you allow them to). However, in some cases you might want students to only give qualitative feedback, where students do not have to give a score or select a level from a rubric.
Similar to a scale rating criterion, you can fill in the title, an optional explanation of the criterion and the minimum number of comments students need to write. Click on add another criterion to add another comment criterion.
When you are finished adding criteria, you can press done at the bottom right of the screen. Or, if you want to add more criteria, click on add criterion.
Grading: Using Your Feedback Criteria
After setting up your feedback criteria it is possible to attribute grade points and different grade weights per criterion to grade the assignment. This can be done in the Configurable Grading module in the assignment settings. Under the 'ratings received on total work' you can set the custom grade points per criterion. Read more about our Configurable Grading module here:
Configurable Grading: Explanation