Setup
Douwtje used Feedback Fruits for two distinct assignment types in the same semester. For the term paper draft, she used criteria-based feedback allowing students to comment on specific aspects of each other's writing. For the article reflection, she added scale-based rating as a quick way for students to assess certain dimensions of a text before focusing their written comments on others. This combination — fast rating plus targeted criteria — proved to be an efficient structure for both students and teacher.
Teacher Experience
Douwtje found the initial setup to have a slight learning curve, noting that Feedback Fruits has many configuration options whose consequences are not always obvious before an assignment goes live. However, once the first assignment had run, she found subsequent setups straightforward and largely self-explanatory.
She highlighted two features as particularly valuable: the criteria-based feedback structure, which made it easier to quickly scan all student responses and spot common patterns across texts; and the scale-based rating, which allowed students to spend less time on some aspects while focusing more carefully on others.
Douwtje also noted that students did not seem to distrust feedback from fellow students or expect the teacher to provide additional comments — a shift she attributed partly to the structure of the peer review itself. This, she said, saved her considerable time.
Her conclusion was enthusiastic: she expressed strong hope that UiO would adopt Feedback Fruits more broadly, and an interest in testing further assignment types.
Conclusion
KONS3061 shows that Feedback Fruits is effective even in small, specialised courses, and that the combination of scale-based and criteria-based feedback gives teachers a flexible toolkit for different assignment types.