A few good reasons for engaging your students in a peer feedback session from the Center for writing at University of Michigan:

  • the students get opportunities to develop their ability to give constructive feedback
  • they receive advice on their drafts
  • they have a broader audience for their work than just a single instructor
  • and they see different approaches other students have taken in responding to an assignment

Feedbackfruits is a tool that facilitates peer feedback sessions for students. It is available from Absalon where students give feedback to peers online.
see how to start creating the peer-review here, or Download the written guide here

You can create groups based on the Absalon Groupsets or sections, they will be syncronized to FeedbackFruits,

How to set up Review groups in feedbackfruits or Download a written guide here

You have different options to create criterias in Feedbackfruits, and the results will be syncronized to Absalon.

On how to create your criterion in FeedbackFruits or Download a written guide here

  1. Remember to inform your students about the assignment, where they find it in Absalon and your thoughts about peer feedback, which criteria to use for feedback etc.
  2. During and after the peer feedback period you follow the students submissions and feedback in Feedbackfruits. Please find more inspiration here.

Students enter the assignment through Absalon by jumping to assignments and choosing the one you have scheduled. More information about how to use Feedbackfruits as a student is available on Getting started as a student.

Experience says that students are positive about giving peer feedback. It is inspiring to read each other’s assignments and feedback comments. The quality of the feedback can vary from student to student therefore use meaningful and open-ended questions for feedback to motivate the students to participate actively.