Overview
Peer review is a collaborative learning process where students give and receive feedback on each other’s work. This process helps you reflect on your own work, improve your critical thinking, and gain new perspectives from your peers.
New for 2025/26: Following an evaluation process, UCD has selected FeedbackFruits as our peer review tool in Brightspace, replacing peerScholar. FeedbackFruits supports both Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation activities, depending on how your instructor has set up your module.
Key Features
- Submit your work easily: Upload documents, images, audio, or video depending on what your instructor allows.
- Review your peers’ work: Give structured, constructive feedback guided by rubrics or questions.
- Receive feedback on your work: Learn what peers found effective and where you can improve.
- Reflect on your learning: Use the feedback to revise your work or think about how you might improve in future.
- Engage fairly and honestly: Reviews may be anonymous (using pseudonyms), depending on how your instructor has set it up.
- Work on group projects: In Group Member Evaluation, you can rate and comment on each group member’s contributions, helping ensure accountability and fairness.
When you might use FeedbackFruits
- Assignments and essays: Get feedback on drafts before final submission
- Presentations: Practise your communication skills with peer comments.
- Case studies or projects: Share and review solutions with your classmates.
- Group work: Evaluate each member’s contribution to ensure fairness in grading.
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