Beta — available to participating partners. See Oral Assessment & Practice: Beta Feedback and Known Limitations.
What is Oral Reflection?
Oral Reflection lets students record a scaffolded, structured video response to prompts you define — on their own, or in conversation with the Acai voice agent. It works at any stage of the learning process: reflecting on a submitted piece of work, on a skill they are developing, or on the course as a whole.
Unlike Oral Practice, reflections are made to be seen: you can access students’ recordings and transcripts, review them, and give feedback.
Setting up Oral Reflection as a teacher
Add the activity in your LMS and write your instructions.
Define the reflection prompts — the structured topics and questions students respond to.
Choose a reflection mode (see below).
Decide whether to connect the reflection to submitted work. A submission step is optional: reflections can be anchored to a piece of work or run standalone.
Default feedback modules
Oral Reflection includes the same connected modules as Oral Assessment by default: Teachers give feedback to student work and Received feedback. They are added as a set, can only be removed together, are optional, and can be replaced with Peer Review.
Reflection modes in the Beta
Oral Reflection supports different reflection modes:
Solo reflection — students record themselves responding to topics and questions configured by the teacher. The prompts are shown on screen during the reflection.
Peer reflection — students complete the reflection together with another student, responding to the topics and questions configured by the teacher.
Acai voice agent — students reflect in a guided conversation with Acai. Acai uses predefined topics and questions, which cannot be configured by the teacher. Acai speaks English and understands English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Dutch.
For teachers who want students to reflect individually on their own configured topics and questions, Solo reflection can be used instead. The optional Interaction Coach can support students during their reflection with on-screen suggestions.
See the Transparency Note: Interaction Coach and Conversation Assistant for more information about how these features work.
Reviewing reflections
You can access each student’s recording and transcript. Acai highlights notable moments with timestamped links to help you find the passages that matter — highlights are suggestions only and contain no judgment or score. You give feedback through the feedback modules; timestamped feedback on specific moments in the recording is not available during the Beta. Structured video responses can be reviewed formatively or graded like other FeedbackFruits activities.
Student experience
Students open the activity in their LMS on a phone, tablet, or desktop — no special equipment needed. After a short onboarding and granting camera and microphone access, they see your prompts and record their structured video response, solo or in conversation with Acai. They can re-record their reflection before finalizing it if they want another take. Afterwards they can review their recording, and receive your feedback through the Received feedback module.