(17-04-26) The new release update is scheduled for 2-3 pm CET and contains the following:

New releases

• Feedback Request on Skills and Work

New releases

Feedback Request on Work & Feedback Request on Skills

We're excited to introduce Feedback Request, a new learning activity that put students in control of their own feedback process.

With Feedback Request, students initiate their own feedback loop: they choose the criteria they want feedback on, write instructions for their reviewer, and invite anyone by email, including supervisors, industry mentors, and other external stakeholders who don't need a FeedbackFruits account or LMS access.

There are two versions of the activity, depending on the learning context:

• Feedback Request on Work: Students submit a deliverable (e.g., an essay, report, or project file) and request feedback on it. Reviewers see the submission alongside the criteria.
• Feedback Request on Skills: Students request feedback on specific competencies or skills. There is no submission step, reviewers provide feedback based on their own experience and observations.

Why we built this

Traditional feedback workflows limit who can give feedback and when. Peer Review is great for structured, in-class feedback loops, but many learning contexts require input from people outside the course: an internship supervisor, a thesis advisor, an industry mentor. Until now, organizing that kind of feedback was a manual and time-consuming process.

Feedback Request addresses this by making the student the initiator. The teacher defines the feedback framework (criteria, rubrics, rating scales), while the student decides who gives feedback, when they ask for it, and optionally which criteria to focus on.

How it works

For teachers:

Setup is familiar. You configure the feedback criteria students can choose from – rubrics, scales, or comment-only – and provide instructions. You can enable student criteria selection, which lets students pick which specific criteria they want feedback on from the set you've defined or have them request feedback on the criteria you’ve selected. Deadlines work the same way you're used to. For Feedback Request on Work, you also configure submission settings and file requirements.

For students:

Students see a clear set of steps. They write instructions for their reviewer, select their criteria, and invite reviewers by email. They can assign each reviewer a role (supervisor, first reader, industry mentor) and include a personal message. For Feedback Request on Work, they upload their deliverable before creating the request. Once feedback comes back, they read and reflect on it in the "Read received feedback" step.

For external reviewers:

The reviewer receives an email, clicks through. No login required. They see the criteria (and, for Feedback Request on Work, the student's submission), give their ratings and comments, and can stop and resume at any time. We designed this to be as low-friction as possible.

Availability

Contact your partner success manager to enquire about availability of Feedback Request.

Bug fixes

Rubric import docx fix

We fixed an issue where the rubric import functionality was not succeeding in importing rubrics via docx.

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