Group Member Evaluation (FeedbackFruits) settings

Build set of criteria

By default a comment-only criteria section is set-up under the “Current criteria section”.

Under “+ New Section” you can choose to add either a rubric, scale or comment-only criteria. And under “Add from library” you can import a set of criteria that you have used in another activity by exploring “Rubrics from My library”. When choosing to implement a rubric from an existing template/activity, you will be able to preview the rubrics you are importing before implementation.

If you want to create new criteria, choose one of the options – rubric, scale or comment-only criteria. You can have multiple criteria of any combination of these three options in one assignment.

Rubrics: Adding from Scratch

Select Add Rubric and a new and empty rubric will appear. You can fill it with the criteria on which you want your students to be assessed.

At the top, you can add the levels of the rubric and change the title and the amount of points that are ascribed to each level. You can add more levels by clicking on the + icon at the right of the level screen.

By clicking on the three dots next to the level heading, you can access a menu to delete, add new levels beside or move the selected level.

On the left column, you can add your criteria. Per criterion, you can set if students are allowed to write comments about this criterion and how many comments they are required to write (next to selecting one of the levels).

You can delete criteria by clicking on the X next to the criteria title. You can add more move or add criteria and levels by clicking on the directional arrow to the left of the title of the criterion/level.

For each criterion it is recommended to add a description per level, explaining when a student would, for example, score “Beginning”. This will set clear expectations to students what success in each level looks like.

When you are finished adding criteria, you can press done at the bottom right of the screen. Or, if you want to add more criteria, click on add criterion.

Creating New Criteria: Scale

Select Add Scale Rating.

For each criterion, you have to fill in a title. Optionally, you can add a further explanation of the criterion.

You can choose which type of rating you want to use, where students get a score on a scale of either 3, 5, 7 or 10. points.

By default the beginning and end of the scale are named “improvement needed” and “excellent.” You can customise this by changing the text under the headers scale begin and scale end. You can also choose whether or not to allow comments and set a minimum number of required comments per rating.

You can also select whether or not to adjust the lowest rating on the scale to result in 0 points. Bear in mind that even incomplete reviews are visible to the receiver after the deadline passes.

When you are finished adding criteria, you can press done at the bottom right of the screen. Or, if you want to add more criteria, click on add criterion.

Creating New Criteria: Comment-Only

The third option of feedback criteria that can be added to the assignment are comment criteria. As explained above, when using a rubric or scale rating criteria students are also able to write comments (if you allow them to). However, in some cases you might want students to only give qualitative feedback, where students do not have to give a score or select a level from a rubric.

Similar to a scale rating criterion, you can fill in the title, an optional explanation of the criterion and the minimum number of comments students need to write. Click on add another criterion to add another comment criterion.

When you are finished adding criteria, you can press done at the bottom right of the screen. Or, if you want to add more criteria, click on add criterion.

Required number of peers to review – select the number of peers you would like the student to review and whether students need to do a Self-assessment.