As part of our expanding educational technology toolkit, all instructors now have access to our full suite of nine FeedbackFruits tools. Over the next few months, we’ll be highlighting the different tools available and explore how they can impact the teaching and learning experience. This month, we’re diving into Peer Review and Interactive Document.
Peer Review: The Peer Review activity offers multiple feedback opportunities and enhances students critical thinking and writing skills. Students submit individual or group work, and then give and receive feedback from their peers on that work. The feedback is flexible; it can be in the form of open comments or guided by a rubric or scoring system. The learning process can be further extended by adding steps that allow students to reflect on the feedback they receive or to provide feedback on the feedback they were given by their peers. From the instructor side, this activity streamlines formative peer assessment. It can save instructors time in activity setup, document exchange, and feedback distribution, and is scalable to all class sizes.
Interactive Document: The Interactive Document activity enhances learner-to-content interaction and increases student engagement. In this activity, instructors add in-line questions and discussion points to documents, turning reading text into an interactive activity. Students answer the questions and pose questions of their own. Students can also start and participate in discussions with other students on areas that pique their interest—all within the document. This type of social annotation encourages close reading of the material and promotes a collaborative learning environment.
Explore both tools today in Brightspace and see how they can support authentic, AI-resilient learning. Have you already implemented these tools in your courses? We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us via the FeedbackFruits link in our TLS Support Portal.