Introduction

In this article we will walk you through how to use Feedback Request on Skills 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:

• Feedback Request on Skills: Overview

• Feedback Request on Skills: For Students

• Feedback Request on Skills: For Reviewers

Tool In Action

How this article is structured

This article walks you through the steps of an Feedback Request on Skills activity, following the same flow as the tool itself.

The activity is divided into two sections:

• Setting up: This refers to what you can configure before the assignment is published, such as instructions, settings, deadlines, grouping, and grading rules. Students cannot access the activity at this stage. You can still edit some settings after publishing; however, once students start making progress, certain options may be locked to protect their work and data. Wherever this applies, the article will clearly note it.

• Active Assignment: This refers to what happens after the assignment is published and available to students. It covers monitoring student progress, viewing submissions, giving feedback, and reviewing outcomes.

Use Setting up to prepare your activity and Active Assignment to manage it once students are working on it.

Note: When you open a published activity, you’ll land on the Active Assignment view by default. To return to the setup view after publishing, click Edit in the upper-left corner of the activity.

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.

Setting Up the Activity

Step 1: Instructions

Write clear instructions for the activity. These instructions will be visible to students when they open the assignment. You can use this space to explain which skills or competencies the activity focuses on, how students should approach requesting feedback, and any expectations you have for how they engage with the process.

Fig. 1: Instructions setup

Step 2: Feedback Request, Configure Feedback Criteria

In this step, you specify the skill criteria that will be used during the feedback process. Click configure to edit, add, or delete criteria. You can also define the instructions for the reviewer, as well as a deadline for the student to complete the request for feedback by.

Fig 2: Configuring feedback criteria in the Feedback Request step

Allow student criteria selection: You can enable this option to let students choose which specific skill criteria they want feedback on from the set you have defined. This encourages students to reflect on their own development areas and make intentional choices about where they need input.

You can set up criteria using:

• Rubrics – with defined levels and descriptions

• Scales – numerical rating scales

• Comment-only – qualitative feedback without ratings

Fig. 3: Criteria selection screen

For a skills-focused activity, your criteria might include competencies such as communication, professionalism, teamwork, critical thinking, or leadership. These become the options students can select from when they create their feedback request.

Active Assignment

Once the activity is live and students begin participating, you can monitor progress inside the activity.

Overall Student Progress

The Overall Student Progress view appears at the top of the activity in the Active Assignment view. It provides a high-level overview of how students are progressing across all steps of the activity.

Please note that this section is not visible during activity setup. It only becomes available after the activity has been published and students begin participating.

From this overview, you can quickly see how far students have progressed through the activity workflow across steps such as:

• Feedback request creation

• Received feedback

This view helps you monitor overall completion status at a glance before reviewing step-specific analytics.

Monitoring Student Progress per Step

In addition to the overall progress overview, you can also monitor analytics within each individual activity step.

These step-level analytics provide more detailed insight into student participation. For example, within the Feedback request step, you can see:

• Which students have created their feedback request

• Which reviewers have been invited

• Which reviewers have completed their feedback

• Which students have read their received feedback

Fig. 4: Teacher analytics for Feedback Request Learning Step

Similar analytics are available within other steps of the activity, such as:

• the Feedback request step

• the Received reviews step

These detailed insights help you track participation more closely and identify where students or reviewers may still need to complete actions.

Fig. 5: Teacher analytics for Feedback Request Learning Step

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

Viewing Feedback

You can access individual student feedback requests to see the feedback that has been provided by their reviewers. This allows you to monitor the quality and relevance of the feedback students are receiving, even from external reviewers.

Fig. 6: Teacher overview of received student feedback

You can access individual student feedback requests to see the feedback that has been provided by their reviewers. This allows you to monitor the quality and relevance of the feedback students are receiving, even from external reviewers.

Good to Know

• No submission step: This is the key difference from Feedback Request on Work. Students do not upload a deliverable. Reviewers provide feedback based on their direct observations of the student's skills.

• Teacher stays in control of feedback quality: You define the skill criteria, rubric descriptions, and rating scales. Students and reviewers work within the framework you've established.

• Inviting Reviewers inside the institution: Feedback Request can also be used within the institution. Students can invite reviewers, as long as they are not inside the LMS course where the activity is live.

• External reviewers don't need an account: Reviewers receive an email invitation and can complete their review through a mobile-first, no-login interface. This is designed to maximize completion rates.

• Ideal for competency-based feedback: This activity type is well suited for internship evaluations, clinical placements, practicum feedback, mentorship programs, and any context where skills are observed rather than documented.

• Student criteria selection is optional: You can choose whether students pick their own skill criteria or receive feedback on all criteria. Enabling selection adds a metacognitive step to the activity.

• Familiar configuration: If you've set up Peer Review or other FeedbackFruits tools before, the Feedback Request setup will feel very similar.