Figure: The screenshot above illustrates the student view of a FeedbackFruits Peer Review assignment as a student is reviewing their peers’ feedback. In the center, a student would see a peer’s submission (document, video, audio or image), and on the right, they can see the evaluation rubric, sliding scale or comment criteria for qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation.

FeedbackFruits helps create engaging peer learning activities through a suite of tools. Cornell currently has license for two FeedbackFruits tools:

Peer Review allows students to submit individual or group work, give feedback to individual students or groups, guided by a scoring rubric, perform self-assessments, and reflect on feedback provided by their peers
Group Member Evaluation provides a platform for students to evaluate their team members’ contributions to a group project

FeedbackFruits has been integrated with Canvas and can be used to build graded and non-graded activities. Graded activities sync with Canvas Gradebook. To set up graded activities, create an External Tool Canvas Assignment; to set up an ungraded activity, create an External Tool item through Modules in Canvas. For a comparison of FeedbackFruits and other peer evaluation tools, see Comparison of Peer Evaluation Tools.

In addition to the Peer Review and the Group Member Evaluation tools, Cornell has pilot access to other FeedbackFruits tools for the 2021/2022 academic year. The pilot tools include: Interactive Video, Interactive Audio, Interactive Document, Comprehension, Interactive Presentation, Automated Feedback, Skill Review, Assignment Review, Discussion Assignment. If you are interested in learning more about these tools, please contact canvas@cornell.edu.

See FeedbackFruits Resources for Students for documentation to help students.

Setting up a FeedbackFruits Assignment in Canvas

The process below will describe how to set up an activity using any of the FeedbackFruits tools available. While Cornell has a license for two FeedbackFruits tools: Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation, - other tools are available as a pilot for the 2021/2022 academic year.

Peer Review assignment would allow you to create the following student evaluation activities:

Hand in work individually, review individually
Hand in work individually, review within groups
Hand in work individually, review outside of their groups
Hand in work as a group, review individually
Hand in work as a group, discuss as a group

Group Member Evaluation has the following options for student evaluation activities:

Review peers individually (assigned number of random peers from the entire class, section or a group or assign specific peers)
Review all peers within a group
Review peers in other groups

If you are interested in learning more about other tools available as a part of the pilot for 2021/2022 academic year, please contact canvas@cornell.edu.

When setting up a FeedbackFruits assignment, start by creating a Canvas Assignment.
In the Canvas assignment settings:
1. Fill in the Assignment Name.
2. Fill in the Points.
3. DO NOT add instructions. (You will be prompted for instructions in the FeedbackFruits interface.)
4. DO NOT add a due date. (You will be prompted for a due date in the FeedbackFruits interface and putting one here will create duplicate entries on the Canvas Calendar.)
In the Submission Type drop-down menu, select External Tool, click Find, and click FeedbackFruits.
If you are using FeedbackFruits for the first time, you will be asked to Continue to Permissions and Authorize Access. Agree to all those action requests.

Note: To edit a FeedbackFruits assignment, click on the three dots in the upper-right corner of the FeedbackFruits frame and choose Edit. DO NOT edit a FeedbackFruits assignment by clicking the Edit Assignment Settings in the very top-right corner of the Canvas assignment details page, as this may lead to duplicating assignments and generating duplicate due dates in the Calendar.