FeedbackFruits Formative Assessment Tool is now available

FeedbackFruits, a digital tool designed for formative assessment, is now available for use throughout the University.

What is FeedbackFruits?

FeedbackFruits is available in Minerva and provides a suite of seamless tools for evaluating deliverables and assessing student skills.

'Very easy for students to use, worked well and integrated well'

Dr Matt Bawn, Faculty of Biological Sciences

How do I access FeedbackFruits?

You can access FeedbackFruits in the Content Market in Minerva.

Where can I get support with FeedbackFruits?

You can sign up for our online training session for staff at 11.00am on Wednesday 25th September, to help you become familiar with the tool.  Our staff guides also provide further information about functionality within FeedbackFruits and how this can be used within formative assessment practices.

How will it help me and my students with formative assessments?

Feedback Fruits can:

• create templates to be copied and reused
• configure assessment criteria
• enable self-assessment
• synchronise with groups in Minerva
• enable video submissions
• feedback can be provided inline
• be used as tool for peer review

and provide various feedback release and grading option.

'Integration with Minerva was good and setting-up seemed easy enough once I understood the process'

Yasir Khan, School of Physics and Astronomy

FeedbackFruits for summative assessments

We are piloting FeedbackFruits for summative use cases during the 2024/25 academic year. This is an open pilot in which anyone using FeedbackFruits for summative assessment can participate, and we’ll evaluate the tool’s use for this type of assessment and make recommendations supported use at the end of the academic year.

FeedbackFruits is not suitable for summative written based submissions as it doesn't support anonymous marking or Turnitin similarity reports.

Exclusive features of the tool also include:

• Collaboration: it allows users to work as a group, fostering collective participation in assessments
• Group Review: It permits the review of individuals or specific members within a group, enhancing flexibility in evaluation
• Reviewer Selection: users can choose the number of reviewers, with the option to select only a subset rather than all members
• Manual Allocation: It provides the ability to override or manually assign feedback allocations, offering control over the distribution process
• Peers can review each other's work with anonymous id, if desired
• Rating Feedback: it enables the rating of feedback, providing an additional layer of evaluation.