(10-07-26) The new release update is scheduled for 2-3 pm CET and contains the following:

New releases

• Learning Collection Step

Improvements

• Now supporting R as programming language
• Improved readability of rubric levels

New releases

Learning Collection Step

We're excited to introduce Learning Collection, a new learning step that lets students bring together evidence of their learning from across their courses and be assessed on their development as a whole, rather than on a single final deliverable. With Learning Collection, students curate a collection from the FeedbackFruits activities they've taken part in, reflect on what it shows about their growth, and submit the collection to be assessed

Why we built this

Why we built this

Learning is demonstrated across many moments, peer reviews, discussions, self-assessments, brainstorms, visuals, even conversations with an LLM, but these are usually assessed in isolation. There's no easy way to step back and look at the sum of them: has the student developed as expected, and reflected critically on their journey? Piecing together scattered evidence and feedback by hand is time-consuming and doesn't scale, and it's hard to judge growth from one deliverable alone.

Learning Collection addresses this by aggregating moments across a student's learning trajectory. The student decides what best demonstrates their learning and frames it with reflection; the teacher defines the criteria and requirements. That opens up a lot of possibilities:

• Are they proficient in their development so far? Get insight into how a student is progressing on key learning outcomes, not just their final grade.
• Portfolios. Students curate their best work, or all their work, from across courses and submit it for rubric-based assessment.
• Insight into the students learning trajectory, not just the final deliverable. Students compile drafts, peer feedback, and reflections across a semester, evidence of genuine growth that can't be generated in one sitting.

How it works

For teachers:

Setup is familiar. Add it as a learning step in the design studio to an activity. You can write general instructions plus student-collection instructions describing what the collection should contain (e.g., "show a moment you're proud of, a time you struggled, and how you've grown"), define the amount of items students must include, and choose whether students can upload additional files outside of FeedbackFruits activities. You then configure the assessment criteria, rubrics, scales, or comment-only, the same way you're used to. Collections can be assessed by multiple assessors independently, and combined with peer assessment or other steps.

For students:

Students work through a guided three-step flow, Build → Reflect → Preview. In Build, they browse everything they've done across their courses, automatically gathered and grouped by course, and click or drag what they want into their collection; each item brings its submissions, ratings, and comments with it. They can also upload supporting material, like visuals or files that live outside FeedbackFruits, if the teacher enables it. In Reflect, they write an overall reflection and optional per-item reflections to explain their thinking. In Preview, they check everything before submitting. Submitting locks the collection and saves it as a snapshot; assessment results appear like any other feedback in FeedbackFruits once released.

Learn more about Learning Collection step here.

Availability

Contact your partner success manager to enquire about availability of Learning Collection.

Improvements

Now also supporting R

We've extended programming language support to include R (.r) files. Like the other supported languages, R files are converted into an annotatable document automatically, so students and teachers can run the same inline comments, discussions, and feedback tools used across every other document, now covering statistics, data science, and research-methods courses too.

Improved readability of rubric levels

Some rubrics have more levels that others, and to ensure those are not missed we have changed the visuals of the rubrics, ensuring that we specify the amount of levels in the copy, and increase visibility of the arrow by making it purple. 

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