Introduction

In this article we'll walk you through how to set up a Self-Assessment of Work from the perspective of a teacher.

If you'd like more information on how this tool works, check out these articles:

• Self-Assessment of Work: For Teachers (Active Assignment)

• Self-Assessment of Work: For Students

• Self-Assessment of Work: Overview

Tool In Action

How this article is structured

Setting up an activity now follows three stages, shown in the bar at the top of the activity whenever you're in edit mode:

1. Build activity — get an overview of your activity and add or remove steps.
2. Edit steps — configure each step one at a time (instructions, hand-in, self-assessment criteria, anonymity, visibility, and how students hand in on that step).
3. Set up activity — set what applies to the whole activity: deadlines, grade weighting, and groups.

This article follows that same order. Everything below describes what you can configure before the activity is published — students cannot access the activity at this stage. You can still edit some settings after publishing; however, once students start making progress, certain options lock to protect their work and data. Wherever that applies, we'll note it.

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

Accessibility

We're devoted to making our tools as accessible as possible for all learners. To read more, see Accessibility: Within FeedbackFruits Tools.

Stage 1 — Build activity

This is your starting point. Here you see every step in the activity in order and can shape the activity before configuring the detail.

A default Self-Assessment of Work activity contains:

1. Instructions
2. Hand in
3. Review your own work
4. Read received feedback

Adding steps. Use the learning-steps panel to add optional steps such as Automated Feedback, Reflections, Feedback-on-Feedback, or a Non-FeedbackFruits step. Click a step to add it, or drag it into the activity.

When your steps are in place, move to Edit steps to configure each one.

Stage 2 — Edit steps

Here you set up the activity step by step. Each step shows its own settings and a Student preview so you can see what learners will see.

Step 1: Instructions

Write the instructions students see when they open the activity. Type directly into the instructions field; the student preview updates alongside. You can also add items — for example, a file or recording audio/video — using Add items.

Step 2: Hand in

Configure how and what students submit.

• Students hand in as — choose An individual or A group. This is the student-collaboration choice for Self-Assessment of Work. 
• Required files — set how many files students must hand in: Minimum, Between, or Exactly a chosen number.
• Allowed file formats — enable the file types students may upload: Document, Video, Website, Image, Audio, Other. Students can't upload types you disable. See supported file types. Note: embedded audio/video inside documents and slideshows can't be played in FeedbackFruits.
• Submitter anonymity — when on, student contributions are anonymous to each other; teachers can always see who is who.

Advanced settings (Hand in):

• Plagiarism check — if your institution has opted into the Turnitin integration, toggle the check here. See the Turnitin FAQ.
• Visibility of hand-ins — control who can see submissions, e.g. Only the allocated reviewer(s).
• Optional instructions for this step — add specific hand-in guidance (e.g. desired font, line spacing, or file naming: "Please include your student number in the file name.").

About the hand-in deadline. The deadline itself is set later, in Set up activity → Deadlines. 
A few behaviours are worth knowing here: students must upload before the hand-in deadline; if no deadline is set, students can submit at their convenience. You can also allow late hand-ins — students can still hand in after the deadline, and this doesn't affect analytics (you'll still see whether they submitted on time).

Step 3: Review your own work

Set the criteria that guide students as they assess their own work.

• Students self-assess — this step is fixed to self-assessment (there is no peer pool). Students review their own submission against the criteria you set.
• Criteria — the criteria that guide the self-assessment. Choose whether students assess Themselves or Their group, then click Edit to add, edit, or delete criteria. See How to set up feedback criteria.

Advanced settings (Review your own work):

• AI coach — students receive AI-powered, real-time feedback to improve their reviews.
• Feedback writing tips — students are randomly shown tips while reviewing to help them write higher-quality feedback.
• Review checklist — a checklist shown during reviewing to help students reflect on how they framed their feedback.
• Optional instructions for this step — add specific review guidance (e.g. desired detail, wording, or how to interpret the criteria).

Step 4: Read received feedback

Students read the feedback they received on their self-assessment.

The deadline for reading received feedback is set in Set up activity → Deadlines. Keep in mind that if a deadline was set on the previous step, this step only becomes available once that deadline has passed.

Stage 3 — Set up activity

The final stage gathers the settings that apply to the whole activity — the ones you'll most often revisit. On the left you keep the step overview; on the right you set activity-wide options: Deadlines, Grade weighting, and Advanced settings.
 

Deadlines

Enable Steps have end dates, then set an end date per step in one place — the hand-in deadline, the review deadline, and the read-received-feedback deadline all live here. Leaving a deadline blank keeps that step open indefinitely.

Grade weighting

Enable Steps have grade weighting to assign a weight to each step (e.g. hand-in, reviewing). Weights must total 100% — a Total grade weighting indicator shows your running total. 

In the grading Advanced settings you can:

• Choose the Grade type: Percentage or Pass/fail.
• Require participation to receive a grade — only students who open the learning activity receive a grade.
• Schedule grade publish — automatically publish grades at a selected date.
• Auto-publish after completing graded steps — automatically publish an individual student's overall grade once they complete all graded learning steps.

For more on how the grading module works, see this article.

Groups

If this is a group activity (see the Group activity toggle under Activity settings, and "hand in as a group" on the Hand in step), select the group set and choose which groups/sections participate.

Reminder: the hand-in collaboration option (Individual / Group) must be set before students participate. Once a student makes progress, that configuration can't be changed.

When everything looks right, Save and publish.