Overview

Learn how to create FeedbackFruits Group Member Evaluation assignments. Group Member Evaluations allow learners to provide feedback on team member contributions toward group work.

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More about Group Member Evaluations

FeedbackFruits Group Member Evaluations allow learners to evaluate the contributions of their team members toward group work. Importantly, it gives learners the opportunity to highlight to educators if certain team members didn't pull their weight.

Feedback provided in Group Member Evaluations can be used to inform manual or automatic grade adjustments to associated group work, as to protect learners from non-contributing teammates, and/or to help educators to identify learners that may require additional support participating in group work. These assignments also allow your learners to develop their reflective writing, evaluation and group work skills, which are all fundamental to university study and when joining the workforce.

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Unsure if Group Member Evaluations are right for your course? Contact TALAS* for advice.

*If you're not in an active course development cycle, contact the AU LMS Support Team for triaging with TALAS.

The learner experience

If you're curious how these assignments look and function for learners, refer to FeedbackFruits's learner guide for Group Member Evaluations.

Templates

Templates

AU FeedbackFruits has Group Member Evaluation templates available for you to use during assignment creation. These templates have been configured to optimise learner experiences and reduce educator workload when creating Group Member Evaluations. The use of these templates is strongly recommended, though you are free to make course/assignment-specific modifications to them as required. There are two templates available for Group Member Evaluations.

Template 1: Standard template

Group Member Evaluations set up using the 'Standard template' will be created and graded as a separate assignment to the associated group assignment (you would have one assignment for each). If you wanted to make grade adjustments to the group assignment based on Group Member Evaluation feedback, you would do so manually (e.g. change a non-contributing group member's grade to zero).

Group Member Evaluations can be formative or graded. Grades can be based on evaluation scores or just whether learners have participated, or a mix of both.

If formative, you would use the Group Member Evaluation only to inform manual adjustments to group assignment grades.
If graded, Group Member Evaluation scores would contribute a specific percentage toward the final course grade independent of the group assignment (e.g. 20% for the group assignment and an additional 5% for the Group Member Evaluation), though may still be used to inform manual adjustments to group assignment grades.

Template 2: Poor evaluation reduces assignment grades

A Group Member Evaluation set up using the 'Poor evaluation reduces assignment grades' template will be created and graded as a separate assignment to the associated group assignment (you would have one assignment for each), just like with the 'Standard template'. However, unlike with the 'Standard template', Group Member Evaluation scores would automatically adjust group assignment grades based on a set formula (which you can modify if required). [more info on the formula]

Automatic grade adjustments are applied using the formula depicted in the graph below (also summarised in the table below that). Adjustments are only applied for learners who received an average evaluation of 64% or less. Well-contributing learners will not have their grades adjusted.

Group Member Evaluation score	Group assignment grade multiplied by...
65-100%	100% (no adjustment)
60%	77%
50%	71%
40%	63%
30%	55%
20%	45%
10%	32%
0%	0%

If you use this template, your group assignment would need to be formative and not contributing to the final course grade, and the Group Member Evaluation would need to be graded and contributing to the final course grade. Both Canvas Assignments would also need to be worth the same amount of points. This is because, if you use this template, you would copy the group assignment's grades into the Group Member Evaluation for adjustments to be applied, such that the Group Member Evaluation grade would not just be the evaluation scores, like with the 'Standard template', but an adjusted version of the group assignment grade. If both assignments were contributing to the final grade, then you'd have a double-up. Note that, for automatic adjustments to work, all learners must be given the same grade on the group assignment (it will not work if you grade group members individually).

This option provides the most amount of protection for learners against non-contributing team members, though can be less accurate than if you were to assess the fairness and quality of evaluations and make manual adjustments yourself.

Template 3: UniSA to FF - 10 Criteria Equivalent

You might notice a third Group Member Evaluation Template called 'UniSA to FF - 10 Criteria Equivalent'. This template is used for course migration activities, so is not relevant for course development.

Comparing the assignment setups for the templates

Still a bit unsure how these templates work? The table below provides a summary of each.

Template	Group assignment	Group Member Evaluation	Adjustments
Standard template	Graded	Formative	Manual
Standard template	Graded	Graded	Manual or not at all
Poor evaluation reduces assignment grades	Formative	Graded	Automatic
UniSA to FF - 10 Criteria Equivalent	Ignore this one!

Whichever option you choose, make sure you inform your learners if/how Group Member Evaluations will contribute to their final course grades and if/how their group assignment grades will be adjusted based on their evaluations. You don't want any of this to come as a surprise to your learners!

Coming from UoA MyUni?

The AU Group Member Evaluation Templates were developed based off the UoA Templates, but with adjustments made to better fit the AU Attainment Model.

How to create a Group Member Evaluation

How to create a Group Member Evaluation

To create a FeedbackFruits Group Member Evaluation, you will first need to set a Canvas Assignment to have submissions made via FeedbackFruits. This will need to be a separate submission portal to where the actual group work will be submitted (one for submitting the group work, one for submitting the evaluations). Note these instructions skip over some of the basics of creating a Canvas Assignment, so make sure you're familiar with those first.

Step-by-step instructions

Create a new Canvas Assignment.
Set the Canvas Assignment's 'Submission Type' to 'External Tool'.
Select 'Find'.
In the 'Configure external tool' popup, select 'FeedbackFruits'.

FeedbackFruits will now load in a new menu. (If you're using the tool for the first time, you will be instructed to give permission for FeedbackFruits to link to your myLearning account.)

This is where you will set up your Group Member Evaluation. You will get the options to create your Group Member Evaluation based on the AU Templates in the 'Institutional libraries', from 'Past activities' or by 'Start(ing) from scratch'. These steps will cover how to create a Group Member Evaluation based off one of the AU Templates, however the setup advice provided throughout this guide will apply regardless of which option you choose.

From within the FeedbackFruits menu, select 'Institutional libraries'.

Under 'Institution Space', select the AU FeedbackFruits Template you want to use.
You will be shown an overview of the chosen template. Select 'COPY AND EDIT'.

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You will now be shown a menu to 'Choose which groups will participate'. This is where you will link your learner groups to FeedbackFruits to allow them to evaluate each other. However, you do not need to link learner groups yet, so select the menu close button .

Configure your Group Member Evaluation's settings. Select the info buttons in the H5P Course Presentation below to learn more about each configuration option. Yellow alert icons indicate important settings for you to review. Navigate the H5P using the left/right arrows .

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To finish creating your Group Member Evaluation, select 'SAVE' at the top of the creator menu.

You will now be taken back to the Canvas Assignment component of your Group Member Evaluation.

In the 'Configure external tool' popup, select 'Select'.
Make sure to finish setting up the rest of the Canvas Assignment (e.g. add availability dates), then, when you're done, select 'Save' at the bottom of the creation menu.

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