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How to create a FeedbackFruits Moodle activity

How to create a FeedbackFruits Moodle activity

Published on: 28/07/2023 · Last updated on: 27/06/2025

Two step creation process

Creating a FeedbackFruits activity in Moodle involves two steps:

Add a FeedbackFruits activity to Moodle (which is an External Tool activity) and connect it to the FeedbackFruits service.
Edit the FeedbackFruits activity settings to suit your purpose.

Before setting up a group activity please ensure your groups/grouping are already created. It’s important that group visibility settings are set to ‘visible’ so that the FeedbackFruits service can see the members in the groups.

Step 1 – Add a FeedbackFruits activity to Moodle

To start, go to the Moodle space where you want to add the activity, and toggle Edit mode on.

Add an activity or resource

Select Add an activity or resource.
From the pop-up menu select the FeedbackFruits option.

Select the FeedbackFruits activity

Click the Select Content button and choose the activity type you want to create.
You can use templates, create your activity from scratch or use one shared with you by a colleague.
You can also access previous activities you have created to use as your own template by clicking the Copy From Existing tab.

Name the activity and save

Give the assessment a name and enter some text into the Instructions textbox. Click Save. Clicking save will close the pop-up window. Step 2 will provide you with the guidance for choosing the rest of the settings for the chosen FeedbackFruit content.
Note: You do not need to choose all the remaining content settings at this point. However, if you do want to choose the remaining settings at this stage you will need to do it before clicking Save, as clicking Save will close the pop-up window.

TIP: When using a template please ensure you rename the assessment, otherwise the system will hold mutliple activities with the same name which can cause confusion over time.

Make sure the Activity name visible on your Moodle space is the same as the name you just gave the FeedbackFruits activity above.

Select the remaining Moodle settings

Record grades in Moodle gradebook

If you want to record grades to the Moodle gradebook, under Grade, check the ‘Allow FeedbackFruits to add grades in the gradebook‘ option.

Accept grades for a FeedbackFruits activity.

Completion conditions

If you want to apply settings for Activity completion, choose the relevant options under Completion conditions. For example, you can Add requirements and select students must Receive a grade to complete this activity.

Activity completion for feedbackfruits activity.

Restrict access to certain groups

If you want to restrict access to the activity, so that it is only visible to certain groups of students, you can by changing the settings in the Restrict access option.
Select Add restriction and Grouping.
Choose the relevant Grouping from the drop-down list.
You have the option to make the activity only visible to the relevant students by clicking the eye icon. It will display with a slash through the eye. If you leave this as the default setting (the eye icon without the slash), then all students enrolled in the Moodle space will be able to see the activity, but only those included in the Grouping will be able to access it.

Restrict access settings for feedback fruits activity.

Click Save and return to course so you can select your newly created assessment and continue to edit the FeedbackFruits activity settings.

Step 2 – Edit the FeedbackFruits activity content settings

You can now follow the relevant FeedbackFruits guidance (below) depending on the activity you have chosen, to finalise the settings ready for students to use it.

Please note that ALL FeedbackFruits should be mapped to a Moodle grouping, to ensure that the correct students can access it. If you want students to work individually, they can do this within the appropriate SAMIS cohort groups.

Set collaboration settings (for syncing to Moodle)

When editing the FeedbackFruits activity in section 1, click the Change button in the Student collaboration setting.

Setting for student collaboration in FeedbackFruits activity.

Change the ‘Students evaluate‘ setting to ‘Within groups‘ (or ‘Individually, shown as groups‘ depending on the activity) and click the Next button. Select the SAMIS Cohort grouping and click Done.

FeedbackFruits settings for working in groups.

Syncing current students to your FeedbackFruits activity
If in doubt, please check with tel@bath.ac.uk.

Setting up instructions
Assignment Review – for student to submit work (individually or in groups) for staff to assess
Peer Review – for students to assess the submissions of their peers and provide feedback
Group Member Evaluation – for students to rate the performance of their peers (related to a group project or task)
Self-Assessment – for students to submit work and review it themselves against some given criteria
Skill Review – to allow multiple staff to assess student skills (e.g. when giving a presentation), where an average of all assessor’s grades is automatically generated.
Automated Feedback – for students to receive automatic (almost immediate) feedback on their academic writing direclty from the tool
Group Formation – for grouping students according to their given answers to some quiz questions

Frequently asked questions

You can click the Chat button in the FeedbackFruits activity set-up or tool pages to speak with a FeedbackFruits support team member 24 hours a day, every weekday. They are usually very quick to respond. or you can contact the TEL team at tel@bath.ac.uk.

See the list of file types allowed. If students are submitting video via Panopto they can add the URL to their video.

It is not currently possible to do automatic checks through Ouriginal. However, if this is a requirement of your task please contact tel@bath.ac.uk to discuss alternative ways to have the work checked.

It is not currently possible to grade anonymously.

It is not currently possible to transfer grades from the External Tool activity that FeedbackFruits uses. However, the grades could be added to a Moodle Assignment and transfered from there.

The Switch role function in Moodle that enables you to view the content from a Student view does not work with FeedbackFruits activities. This is due to the fact we are accessing an external service. However, the numbered steps in a FeedbackFruits activity are the same for students and teachers, even through the actions for both may be different.

It is not currently possible for this to happen. However, you can manually add deadlines to the calendar for students.

There are some notification emails for students, and these are also recorded within the activity itself.

It is possible to re-use an activity within the FeedbackFruits interface. You should not use Moodle’s duplicate option as the results differ from usual Moodle behaviour (i.e. resulting in a copy of the FeedbackFruits activity being made which includes student data from the original). This would be unhelpful and confusing.

It is possible to share directly with a colleague or have an activity template created at site level for anyone to access. Contact the TEL team for more details.

It is not currently possible for the automated feedback tool to check specifically for Harvard Bath referencing. The Harvard and Harvard Deakin options are not suitable alternatives, and we advise instead to use the ‘consistent’ option.

Sometimes the order in which groups are set up, and FeedbackFruits activities are created, can impact the sync between them. If you notice the activity is not picking up the most up-to-date groups contact the FeedbackFruits in-activity support (by clicking the comment icon, to open the contact panel) and ask them to sync your activity.

If the FeedbackFruits activity is picking up the group but not the students listed in the group in Moodle, you can check the following:

that the group settings have visibility set to ‘visible’ and not ‘visible only to group members’

A syncing issue (between students in the particpant list and a FeedbackFruits activity) has been noted in the following scenario:

a new FbF activity is created where the ‘student collaboration’ setting of ‘Students evaluate’ is set to ‘individually’
this is added to a Moodle space where you have also previously added a FeedbackFruits activity
this results in students from your previous activity being added to your new activity even though they are no longer enrolled in your Moodle space.

There is currently no planned fix for this on the FeedbackFruits roadmap.

In the meantime, it is possible to work-around this by changing the setting ‘Students evaluate‘ to ‘in groups‘ and then selecting the SAMIS cohort grouping (new this year) that includes all your current students. This should result in the activity syncing to the correct students.

Very occassionally an uploaded PDF submission may not be processed as expected, resulting in empty pages. This is a known issue, and seems to be due to the way in which the PDF has been initally created (e.g. the scanning method). This can be resolved by contact FeedbackFruits support via the support chat icon, and requesting a review of the PDF. The support team should be able to retrieve the orginal document.

Sometimes during a peer review activity, especially with a large cohort, some students may miss out on being reviewed. If this looks like it is happening, then it is possible to manually allocate students to be reviewed by more active students.

Edit the activity.
Go to section 3 (Given Reviews) where you can select Allocations and then Manually Assign Allocations.
Wait for the information to load (may take 20 seconds as it’s a large group) and then you should be able to see which students you can manually allocate a reviewer (i.e. any student that doesn’t have a padlock next to their allocation).
Save the activity.

Note: that if students have completed the required number of reviews, according to the activity settings, you will not be able to manually allocate students until you increase that setting. E.g. change the setting from 2 to 3 reviews.

It is possible to reuse any FeedbackFruits activity you have previously created. You can also label an activity as a ‘template‘ which will appear in the My LIbrary area of the FeedbackFruits dashboard.

Templates will create a complete copy of instructions, notes, file uploads and settings.

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