(03-09-26) The new release update is scheduled for 2-3 pm CET and contains the following:

New releases

• Course level analytics

Improvements

• Clearer "no grade" experience for students and teachers
• Recorder usability upgrades
• Support for .mts video files in Interactive Video

Pre-announcements

• Coming soon: Oral Assessment and Practice

New Course Analytics

We're excited to introduce Course Analytics, currently in beta. Until now that evidence lived inside individual activities, so seeing the bigger picture meant clicking through activity after activity. It now rolls up into one view that shows what's going well, what needs your attention, and what you can do about it straight away.

Start with the overview, drill down when you need to. The new all-courses page shows every course you teach, each summarised across three pillars: completion, performance, and engagement. From there you can open a course, an activity, or an individual student, and jump straight to the source activity or your LMS course whenever you want the full context.

Three measures:

• Completion shows who is getting through the work, per step and over time.
• Performance shows average results and where students scored lowest.
• Engagement counts the interactions students actually make, comments, questions, threads, replies, so you can see who is doing the minimum and who is going well beyond it. 

Each metric comes with a short explainer of how it's calculated, so nothing is a black box.

Course analytics is available to all users, read more about how to access the course analytics here! 

Improvements for all users

Clearer "no grade" experience for students and teachers

We've improved how results are communicated when a student doesn't receive any peer feedback — making the outcome clearer and more reassuring for both students and teachers.

For students: In the grading step, the result now appears alongside a helpful indicator, with a short explanation on hover: "You did not receive any peer feedback, so no grade could be calculated. This is not a grade of 0 and does not reflect your performance." This gives students immediate, friendly context so they understand the result reflects their situation, not their effort.

For teachers: The grading table now surfaces these cases with a clear indicator on the relevant student rows and grade chips. A quick hover explains that no grade could be calculated because no peer feedback was received — making it easy to spot and understand at a glance. The same explanation now carries through to the .xlsx grade export as a cell note, so the context stays with the data.

The result is a more transparent, supportive grading experience: consistent, easy-to-understand language everywhere the result appears, giving students confidence and teachers clarity.

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Recorder usability upgrades

In many of our tools, students and teachers can record audio, video or their screen directly in FeedbackFruits instead of uploading a file. We heard that parts of this experience were frustrating enough that some users fell back on workarounds, such as recording a one-person Zoom meeting. This release fixes the most common issues:

• Switch devices without starting over. Changing your microphone during an audio recording no longer restarts it.
• Preview before you submit. After you stop recording, you now get a preview screen to review your video or audio clip before submitting it.
• See that your mic is working. Every recorder now shows a live audio level indicator, so you can tell whether sound is coming through.
• Permissions that work the first time. The microphone and camera permission flow has been unified and works reliably on the first attempt, whatever browser you use.
• A larger recording screen. The recorder now takes up more of the screen, making it easier to see yourself and your content.

Support for .mts video files in Interactive Video

Interactive Video now accepts .mts files, the format used by many Sony and Panasonic camcorders. These cameras are common in media-related courses such as journalism and videography, so students and teachers can now upload their footage directly, without converting it first.

Pre-announcements

Coming soon: Oral Assessment and Practice

As generative AI makes it harder to verify whether submitted work reflects a student’s own thinking, oral assessment allows students to demonstrate their learning by putting it into their own words, out loud.

Three new activities support this at scale: Oral Practice, for formative rehearsal with an AI voice agent or a peer; Oral Reflection, for recording video responses to defined topics about submissions or skills; and Oral Assessment, for running instructor-led summative activities within the LMS with a consistent structure and no additional workload.

Instructors can review recordings and interactive transcripts, use rubrics to provide structured feedback, and assign grades—all within FeedbackFruits. Acai, our pedagogy-driven AI, supports the process by helping instructors outline topics and generate rubrics during setup, surfacing key moments during review, and suggesting grades. The final decision always remains with the instructor.

Users interested in an early demo can sign up here: https://292rg.share.hsforms.com/2beij7icNQx6hnSxqqpN85g

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This concludes the September Release Notes v.2.132. If you have any questions or experience a technical issue, please contact our friendly support team by clicking on the blue chat button

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