Completed educational technology pilots

Last updated: October 26, 2023
Audience: Instructors

Feedback Fruits’ Peer Feedback Tools: Autumn 2022 — Spring 2023

Peer Review

Feedback Fruits Peer Review is fully integrated with Canvas and allows individual or groups of students to review one or more artifacts submitted by classmates. Artifacts can include a wide range of file types, including documents, websites, audio and video. Tool features include: automatic or customizable allocation of reviews to individuals or groups, customizable criteria or rubrics, configurable grading, and options for anonymity and self-assessment.

Group Member Evaluation

Feedback Fruits Group Member Evaluation (GME) is also fully integrated with Canvas. GME allows students to evaluate the behaviors and contributions of fellow group members, or of any individuals or groups (helpful for skill review, live performances or presentations). Tool features are the same or similar to those for Peer Review.

Based on feedback we collected from instructors and students during winter and spring 2023, as well as consideration of additional evaluation criteria, UW-IT added Feedback Fruits’ Peer Review and Group Member Evaluation to its collection of centrally supported tools for teaching and learning in summer 2023.

Online Discussion Tools: Autumn 2020 — Autumn 2021

Ed Discussion

Ed Discussion is a broadly applicable tool for asynchronous, threaded discussion. In particular, this tool supports Q&A (peer to peer with instructor endorsement of answers) and offers features for moderation and templated posts and replies. Based on feedback we collected from instructors and students during spring, summer and autumn 2021, as well as consideration of additional evaluation criteria, UW-IT added Ed Discussion to its collection of centrally supported tools for teaching and learning in summer 2022.

Harmonize

Harmonize is a broadly applicable tool that offers discussion, Q&A and live 1:1 or group chat. Based on feedback we collected from instructors and students during spring, summer and autumn 2021, as well as consideration of  additional evaluation criteria, UW-IT will not be adding Harmonize to its collection of centrally supported tools. Departments are free to contract with the vendor individually.

Hypothesis

Hypothesis is an online collaborative annotation tool integrated with Canvas that supports shared annotations, discussion in response to annotations, and active reading of text. Based on feedback we collected from instructors and students from autumn 2020 to spring 2021, as well as additional evaluation of the tool, UW-IT added Hypothesis to its collection of centrally supported tools for teaching and learning in autumn 2021.