With Feedbackfruits you create attractive interactive digital education with a rich form of feedback and peer feedback.
FeedbackFruits is an addition to the digital learning environment Canvas of the VU. Where Canvas offers basic functionalities, FeedbackFruits offers more extensive and advanced possibilities to shape interaction and feedback. FeedbackFruits works consistently for the different functions.
Didactics
FeedbackFruits is extremely suitable to support active blended learning and fits very well in the Flipped Classroom approach to education design. With FeedbackFruits you can give students specific assignments to prepare for lectures or workgroups. As a teacher you can follow what the students do and where they still have problems with the material. During the lecture or workgroup, FeedbackFruits allows you to go into depth much faster.
Functionalities
Read below which functions FeedbackFruits supports. Click on the name to find detailed information, how-to's, instructions and resources.
- Make your content interactive
- Add questions and comments to any document
- Support discussion
- Dashboard with analytics
- Grade a discussion assignment
- Define topics that students should identify in the text
- Ask students to write a summary of a topic
- Make videos from Youtube or Panopto interactive
- Add questions and comments to any video
- Support discussion
- Dashboard with analytics
- Grade a discussion assignment
- Organize individual or group assignments
- Detailed overview of student progress
- Let students reflect on their received feedback
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Configure the weight of different assessment criteria
- Reuse previously posted comments
- Let students run automated feedback before handing in final document
- Use in Peer Feedback and Assignment review processes
- Set feedback criteria for structure and language
- Set feedback criteria for referencing and indexes
- You can use templates for common types of assignments
- Students can also set their own criteria (student autonomy)
- Best for English language, Dutch language still in development
- Not to be used for grading purposes
- Organize individual or group peer review assignments
- Auto or manually distribute reviewers
- Detailed overview of student progress
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Configurable grading for different parts of the assignment
- Allow for submitter and/or reviewer anonymity
- Organize reviews on the collaboration proces
- Auto or manually distribute reviewers
- Create criteria for the review proces
- Let students assess themselves
- Allow for submitter and/or reviewer anonymity
- Designed for recognizing text structure
More information
All information about the use of FeedbackFruits such as access to FeedbackFruits, instructions, use-cases, applications, GDPR guidelines, copyright and FAQs can be found on the individual FeedbackFruits pages on Canvas. Do you want to inform students about the use of FeedbackFruits? Visit the FeedbackFruits page for students.
FeedbackFruits versus Perusall
The VU license for Perusall will expire on 31 August 2026. For more information and migration support, please go to Phasing out Perusall at VU Amsterdam.
FeedbackFruits and Perusall have partly similar functionalities. Teachers often ask which application is the most suitable. The answer is not easy. But there is a clear comparison table that gives a good overview of the differences. That overview can be downloaded here.