Brightspace Content is Getting Upgraded
Beginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will begin using the New Content Experience by default. Additionally, Instructors now have the ability to enable or disable the New Content Experience in their own courses ahead of the change in Fall 2027. For more information about this transition, see our New Content Experience Transition page.
FeedbackFruits Peer Review is an interactive learning tool that enables students to provide structured feedback on each other鈥檚 work, fostering critical thinking and collaborative learning. The tool integrates seamlessly with Brightspace and allows you to create customized rubrics, manage the peer review process, and evaluate both student submissions and the quality of feedback provided. This guide will walk you through setting up peer review assignments, configuring rubrics and review criteria, and using the grading features to assess student performance. FeedbackFruits is an external learning tool (ELT) accessible through Brightspace content modules.
How to access FeedbackFruits
- To access, refer to your Brightspace course and navigate to, or create, your content module to insert the ELT.
- If you are using the New Content Experience, click Add Existing, then More, then FeedbackFruits
- If you are using the Classic Content view, find Existing Activities, then choose聽FeedbackFruits.
- If you are using the New Content Experience, click Add Existing, then More, then FeedbackFruits
Create a new activity in FeedbackFruits
- Choose Start from scratch and Copy and edit. Then select Peer Review on the following menu.
My library is a private library of your templates that you have created for your own courses.
Past activities is a database of public activities you and others have created for courses. These are shared based on the course, department, or school that grants access across multiple courses.
- Add an Activity name at the top for the title of this activity. This will show in your library and the link in your course.
- Set up submissions for students to submit work that will be peer reviewed.聽
- Set up peer reviews
- Feedback criteria configure: here you can create a rubric, or attach a rubric from your library.
- Guiding students
- Feedback writing tips: choose from a list given or create your own tips that will guide the student through peer review
- Add a checklist for the reviewer to encourage thoughtful responses
- Add AI Feedback Coach to receive real-time feedback on their peer and self reviews.
- Received reviews
- This gives the option for recipients to rate their feedback with optional written clarification. This is optional
- If so, you can select a deadline here.
- Grading
- As you are configuring your settings and expectations in steps 2-4, the weighted grade will auto-populate in this step.
How to review submissions and peer feedback
- To review individual or group assignment submissions
- Open the assignment link in your content module
- First, assignment analytics is what you will see first. Click the drop-down arrow to expand all the analytics the assignment offers.
- Open to full screen to capture all the data for each student or group. Expand the group name to see individual student data (if using group assignments).
- Next, you are able to see Step 2: Submissions
- Here, you can view student assignment submissions, either individually or by groups.
- You can also view how individual and group assignments are progressing.
- In step 3, you are able to view student reviews, including comments and rubric reviews.
- It will also show the allocations of students鈥� peer feedback reviewers. You can assign different reviewers here. Once the student has given peer feedback, it will lock and no longer be able to edit the allocations.
- You can also view Show Ratings to see how each category in the rubric performed across all students
- The AI Feedback Coach will give words often mentioned by students here.
- Choose the arrow beside the groups to expand and see individual data for each student and how they have progressed through the feedback and activity.
- In Step 4, this is your dashboard to see if students have received and read the peer feedback.
- Here you can review submissions and feedback again, as well as rubric ratings.
- Finally, you have your Grading step in the dashboard below
- This is also where you will publish activity grades into the gradebook in Brightspace.
