Use cases

Linda Lee of The Wharton School shared how FeedbackFruits tools were chosen to facilitate a large-enrolment course for first-year Wharton students.

Matteo has been teaching online over the past semester, and here is what he has to share.

10 essential steps for better course design to help you prepare and deliver engaging materials in your hybrid and online teaching next semester.

This article dives into methods for creating quality rubrics that can help measure students' performance critically and effectively.

In this article, we’ll dive into understanding why we use rubrics, what they really are, and how they can contribute to the student learning process.

During the 2020-2021 academic year, instructors from Queen's University implemented Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation to foster asynchronous collaboration. In this article you can find their story.

Instructors at Boston University successfully facilitated peer feedback and student engagement in large student cohort using pedagogical tools.

FeedbackFruits has been trying to reduce writing review time for both teachers and students by using AI. But how does this process work, and why not rely on existing programs to check our work? Read our latest article to find out.

Instructors from Wageningen University came up with an innovative approach called Participation Grading - to increase the quality of peer feedback, level of participation, and offer a safe learning environment.

What are the key elements for effective peer feedback? And how can teachers facilitate peer feedback to support the transfer of of skills beyond the classroom? Check out this article to explore some valuable ideas for yourself.

Learner variability, Universal Learning Design, and Multimedia feedback are the topics that will be discussed in the second article of the Feedback series.

In this very first article of our “Feedback series”, we will explore the concept of feedback, its benefits in teaching and learning, and the mediators for effective feedback.

inspirED 2021 has come to an end, yet the it leaves us with so many valuable lessons about teaching and learning in higher education.

Explore 5 essentials of authentic assessment and how you can digitize this evaluation approach to enhance learner engagement and retention

NHL Stenden university is applying a novel pedagogical approach to help prepare students for the labour market, with the support of FeedbackFruits tools.

Discover how to initiate high quality peer review by utilising 7 essentials in designing peer feedback criteria.

Ewoud de Kok, CEO of FeedbackFruits, reflects on the challenges and opportunities that emerged during the pandemic period.

We would like to wrap up this year with a summary of our 12 best pieces of content of 2020: Let’s have a look!

Digital proctoring experiences a mighty rise as the online transition occurs. However, is it worth risking students’ mentality to compromise academic honesty?

One major challenge of online learning is to remotely generate the energy, passion and engagement among students. These 4 strategies could aid in laying the foundation for engaging virtual classrooms.

Educators are the drivers behind educational transformation, but they need the tools to turn creativity into reality. FeedbackFruits wishes to bridge this gap, with pedagogical technology.

Discover how to promote social learning while social distancing, by integrating both theoretical framework and technological affordances.

Learn how collaborative learning can foster a community of engaged, active, and critical students that are eager to participate in online classrooms.

Enhance your online assessment practice with our insightful discussion on formative and summative assessment, along with practical testing strategies.

Explore the fundamentals of a team-based learning approach, its benefits, and useful strategies to optimize this framework for your online course in this article.

Check out this weeks blog and gain some insight into how FeedbackFruits Discussion Assignment tool aids in developing a new generation of critical thinkers

Generating positive learning behaviors is absolutely desirable for any online course designers. In this article, we discuss different strategies to help you achieve this goal

Impatient to add FeedbackFruits' tools in Microsoft Teams? Discover by yourself how simple it is by following the guide in this article.

You missed FeedbackFruits webinar with Microsoft Teams? Do not worry: you can easily find the main takeaways and discover the integration in this article.

Discover how the HyFlex model is one of the best strategies for Universities to improve online learning and create engaging course design during Fall 2020.

The best way to retain students for your university is boosting lectures and courses engagement: read here some ways to boost engagement in your institution.

Moving online during COVID-19 has not been easy for universities. How did students react to this change, both educationally and economically wise?

Online education can be tricky to implement. In this blog, we elaborate on the best practices on how to create an impeccable online course for fall 2020.

Assessment has become a major issue within the higher ed community in the light of the pandemic. Our resources will help you to join the conversation this week.

Rubrics are a fundamental part of creating an online course, and both instructors and students benefit from them. It is crutial to know how to build one, and what criteria should that rubric include according to the topic at hand.

Explore the highlights from our latest webinar The Power of Peer Learning in Business Schools with speakers from the Wharton School of Business!

This week we took a look at how remote learning and proctoring can be done better by universities. More in the resources from articles to podcasts we picked for you.

From first generation students' opinion on the new college experience to Wharton School of Business' peer learning technologies, this weekly digest dives into improving learning experience for students for next semester.

Universities are looking into ways of making online learning more interactive. Hear from experts on how to achieve that on the articles, podcasts, events and videos that we feature this week.

The Group Member Evaluation tool from FeedbackFruits aids business school students to acquire critical skills that can be used in the workplace. This is achieved through active learning and course design.

The higher education community is discussing diversity and equity in the light of BLM movement. On the other hand, universities are looking into different scenarios for the new semester. Take a look at our resources that we picked for you.

Our first Australian Inspiration Day together with Deakin University and Griffith University was also the first one in the midst of a global pandemic. Here are our key takeaways from the webinar on June 5th.

Artifical intelligence, seen as the future of online learning, could inadvertently lead to discrimination according to studies. In the light of recent Black Lives Matter movement, we discussed its causes and what measures FeedbackFruits takes against it.

This week we listed the latest resources on online learning for you. While the uncertainty over the fall semester remains, take a look at these selected articles, podcasts, events and videos that may help you.

What is active learning and why is it fundamentally different from passive learning? Learn about this powerful pedagogical method that increases students' learning potentials.

We continue keeping you updated on latest developments in higher education this week. See our selection of most popular articles, podcasts, events and videos and always stay engaged with the community.

A lot is changing in the higher education community right now and we know that it is difficult to keep up. We will try our best to keep you posted with some of the most popular content that we find helpful for the community.

Course design is a fascinating but sometimes complex concept. Learn why well-crafted, and innovative, course design is best for students’ learning and the mistakes to avoid at all costs.

Richard Machielse, CTO of FeedbackFruits gives insights on the effects of the pandemic on EdTech and how FeedbackFruits is managing the changing needs of higher education institutions.

With the current COVID-19 situation, teachers will continue delivering their courses online for the following semesters. After uploading courses online and going through remote teaching for weeks, one question still remains in teachers' minds: how are we going to assess our students this semester?

Studies have shown that allowing students to interact with the course material, other students, or the teacher during an online activity positively affects their learning. Discover how Interactive Video can help in achieving this outcome.

These times are challenging, but challenging times are a pressure cooker for innovation. This is why FeedbackFruits is releasing Automated Feedback on Writing earlier in response to COVID-19.

With the urgent need for distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of student participation and engagement in online classrooms has intensified. At FeedbackFruits, we believe that interactive study materials are key to keep the students connected to the subject throughout the course whether it is online or offline.

Keeping students engaged during online learning is an issue that is yet to be solved. Teachers are required to rethink their existing course design to be able to engage and track students better in virtual environment.

After many higher education institutions shifted to distance education, online assessment has become a challenge for many teachers. While applying traditional assessment types online with tech is difficult, this situation is also an opportunity to try new assessment models.

Assignment Review enables university teachers to assess student assignments with their own rubric online.

The rushed transition to online teaching after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has left many question marks in teachers' minds. We discussed online courses and explained how teachers can improve them based on existing literature.

You can create a safe classroom for your students to give feedback to each other by following these 6 principles.

Interactive Document helps teachers to engage with their students on their text-based study materials. Add discussions in your articles and let your students learn together.

Interactive Video helps teachers to engage with their students through video materials. Add discussions or inline questions in your videos and track your students' interactions.

FeedbackFruits makes all 8 pedagogical tools available for free to instructors in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

We listed 7 key takeaways from our partners' experience in creating online courses during COVID-19, which can help guide this process where both time and pedagogic integrity are important.

One of the ways we collaborate with universities is through our (bi)annual Inspiration Days. This day is dedicated to sharing ideas and knowledge within the EdTech DoTank.

The FeedbackFruits Inspiration Day is all about sharing knowledge and ideas around expanding our tools’ functionality for future use cases.

LMS adds substantial value for both teachers and students but using an LMS without plugins is like using a smartphone without apps.

Students dread group work because they know that not every member contributes equally. Research shows that peer feedback encourages them to reflect deeply on their skills and contribution in a group setting.

Including an element of student-student learning in both formative and summative assessments ensures that the students and teachers together create knowledge that improve the world.

This learning activity is designed to organise open-ended assessment at scale. The goal of the activity is to enhance learning through both the forming of knowledge and the assessing of student’s understanding.

Rubrics work well to ensure constructive feedback provided by students because they clarify expectations for both targets and quality with students.

Because peer assessment is a fundamentally social and collaborative learning activity, learners’ interpersonal beliefs can negatively impact its outcomes. In order to overcome this issue, and to reduce bias, anonymity is necessary.

Relevant and helpful feedback on work is important to ensure a good learning experience for students. But instead of receiving it only from a teacher, relevant feedback could also be provided by peers.