DCAD Digital Help Guides

FeedbackFruits’ tools integrate with Blackboard and support the students’ learning experience.

Their tools are arranged in three groups:

1. Feedback & Assessment
2. Collaboration & Engagement
3. Custom Pedagogies

This section contains six tools, all with purple icons.

This tool is designed to improve students’ collaboration skills and reduce concerns about some members not participating. It allows you to design a custom evaluation that students can complete to rate group members’ participation

Sample use cases

• Students working on a group project can use it to provide feedback on their peer’s contributions
• Adjust the final mark of group participants to reflect this rating

Quickly design peer feedback activities where students provide feedback on their own work or that of their peers, based on predefined rubrics or criteria.

Sample use cases

• Students peer assess each other’s draft reports before the final submission
• Students upload videos of their work for peers to review and grade

Assess skills effectively online by giving structured feedback to students on their performance skills. This could be presentations, oral exams or interviews.

Sample use cases

• Review students’ group presentations
• Evaluate oral exams
• Review negotiation skills

Assess student work more effectively online by giving structured feedback to students on their individual or group assignments.

Sample use cases

• To review student work
• To provide formative feedback on (group) laboratory assignments

An Al-powered learning assistant that provides instant and formative feedback to help students improve their academic writing.

Sample use cases

• Students receive rapid feedback on their work submitted, based on particular criteria.

This tool can be applied to assessing work or skills. It can help students reflect on a piece of work, using predefined criteria with options for them to provide scores and feedback. The same tool can be deployed to help students reflect on individual or group skills and performance.

Sample use cases

• Students can evaluate themselves and determine which aspects of a submitted piece of work they want to improve.
• Students evaluate their participation in a project and complete a self-reflection activity

This group contains four tools designed to promote individual and collaborative learning amongst your students and make this visible to you by capturing the process online.

A tool that can support flipping the classroom or full online learning. Staff share a recording for students to discuss, answer practice questions and/or collaborate on discussion topics.

Sample use cases

• Commenting on arguments provided in the recording of a debate

Staff provide a file – e.g. a Word document for students to discuss, answer practice questions and/or collaborate in.

Sample use cases

• Asking students to create sample exam questions

A tool that can support flipping the classroom or full online learning. Staff share a video for students to discuss, answer practice questions and/or collaborate on discussion topics.

Sample use cases

• Answering practice questions on a video

Allow students to read, comprehend and analyse a document, and comment on the topics provided by the instructor to identify the structure of the study material. Staff also have the option to enable collaborative learning.

Sample use cases

• Students can learn how to process study material or scientific articles by priming them on specific topics.
• Students can annotate a sample essay to develop writing skills

A final category containing a range of tools that can be deployed in multiple ways.

Sharpen students’ collaboration, interaction, and critical thinking through online debate, discussion and self-reflection. This can take the form of a simple discussion, or one where students discuss a topic by submitting a document.

Sample use cases

• Support online case-study education
• Draft documents can be discussed in tutorial groups
• Ask questions to test the knowledge level of your students or to start a discussion
• Discuss a topic as a blog post
• Emulate the experience of discussion thread to stimulate interaction and debate

This tool allows staff to make effective groups, automatically by providing students with a set of questions, in a survey fashion, regarding their group work preferences, availability, skills, etc. Depending on how they answer to these questions, students will be grouped with other peers who answered similarly (to ensure compatibility) or differently (to complement each other).

Sample use cases

• Creating project groups

Actively engage students with their audience and discussions during presentations, allowing students to answer live questions during class.

Sample use cases

• Live polling during a lecture
• Ask questions to test the knowledge level of your students or to start a discussion

Help students to increase their knowledge of a topic and apply it through problem-solving as a team.

Sample use cases

• This tool facilitates the second and third steps of the Team-Based Learning method in form of an iRAT and a tRAT quiz

Assess students’ understanding of course content and provide immediate feedback on their knowledge gaps with engaging practice quizzes.

Sample use cases

• Direct overview of student progress in terms of their learning goals using their answers to questions
• Stimulate a flexible approach to working