Engagement is crucial to active learning and knowledge retention, but can only be fostered through meaningful interactions with peers, instructors, and content. Especially in online learning where physical contact is absent, engagement and interaction become even more important. Read more about the importance of student engagement↗
In fact, students often passively consume the material assigned out of class, forcing teachers to spend extra time explaining the content in class. Interactive Document utilizes social annotation to encourage student active engagement with the reading materials.
enrich the documents with questions or discussion threads
Instructors add in-line questions or discussion threads to the annotated sections, then decide which are compulsory to answer before proceeding to the next.
Engage in the reading materials
Students read the documents, answer the annotated questions and prompts. They can also add their own questions or discussions by highlighting a specific part of the document.
access students' learning analytics
Instructors track students’ performance to monitor the progress and intervene when necessary. Data for performance per question, and also per student, is accessible via the tool and downloadable.
Add discussion points, multiple choice or and/or open questions directly to highlighted portions of your document to stimulate active participation with and comprehension of the material. Optionally make certain questions compulsory to answer before proceeding, or allow students to start their own discussions too.
Include attachments in the form of documents or images to the questions to incorporate different media and provide broader context. You can even leave a voice-note to let students hear it directly from you.
Sort and filter students’ responses based on the latest activity, location, most upvotes, or most comments, identifying points to address during synchronous sessions.
Choose whether to grade students based on criteria you set, such as answering questions (correctly) or participating in discussions, then synchronize the results with your native LMS.
Follow students' progress and performance within the tool, and download the analytics spreadsheet for an even more thorough analysis.
Choose whether to prevent students from downloading or modifying the materials in accordance with your copyright policy.
Add discussion points, multiple choice and/or open questions directly to highlighted sections of your document to stimulate active interaction and comprehension of the material. Optionally make certain questions compulsory to answer before proceeding, or allow students to start their own discussions.
Include attachments in the form of documents, images, or voice-note to the questions to diversify how instructors and students interact with each other during the feedback activity.
Sort and filter students’ responses based on the latest activity, location, most upvotes, or most comments. This helps identify areas to address during synchronous sessions.
Turn the activity into a formative/ summative assessment by assigning grades to each activity step. The results are then automatically synchronized with the LMS.
Follow students' progress and performance within the tool, and download the analytics (in excel or csv format) for an even more thorough analysis.
Choose whether to prevent students from downloading or modifying the materials in accordance with your copyright policy.
Interactive Video
Activate student engagement with video content using social annotation in Interactive Video.
Comprehension
Guide students to critically analyze study material with Comprehension.
“If you look at the actual use of FeedbackFruits, it has actually transformed the way we help students engage with the study material.“
"I’m really grateful for the tools that are available. [Before the pandemic], they made teaching better, and now they’re making teaching possible. Me and my colleagues noted that we might start using this even when we go back to offline."
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"FeedbackFruits helped me to achieve what I expected and more... It really helped my students get familiar with how to read scholarly articles."
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"This tool provided a better overview of students' performance and progress over the duration of the course. It enabled me to try new methods in teaching, prompt self-reflection on feedback, and guarantee anonymity in an online platform."
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"I noticed that learning of students improved. First, they were enthusiastic about the tool and also interaction between students really helped them to better prepared for the subject."
Streamlined learning activity setup
All you need to do is to describe the assignment, choose the right settings and enjoy.
easy-to-use, uniform design
All tools have a similar look and feel – which flattens the learning curve for both teachers and students.
Co-created with educators
Tools are co-created with educators from partner universities, thus support even the most advanced use cases.
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