Peer Evaluation Software for First-Year Engineering Programs
Give first-year engineering students structured, meaningful peer feedback on team-based design projects without adding to your workload. Feedback Loop runs natively inside your LMS so there are no extra tools to sign into.
Teamwork is the Heart of First-Year Engineering. Build Accountability and Professionalism Among Student Teams
Cornerstone and first-year engineering courses are built around team-based design challenges but the scale of these courses can make determining individual contribution within student teams difficult. Instructors are often stuck choosing between two bad options: grade every student on the team the same, or spend hours manually parsing peer surveys to figure out individual contributions.
Feedback Loop gives first-year engineering programs a better way: customizable, automated peer evaluation that's fast for students, easy for instructors, and graded automatically for completion or partially for ratings received, syncing directly to your LMS gradebook, automatically.
Built for the Realities of Intro Engineering Design Courses
Smart Team Matching Import your existing student teams from your LMS, or build optimized teams using Feedback Loop's Team Matcher. This flexible tool can balance shared availability, diverse skill sets, personality types, and even preferred teammates. No more hand-sorting rosters in a spreadsheet and matched teams sync back to the LMS!
Peer Feedback That Fits Design Projects Use research-based survey templates shown to reduce student bias, or build your own around your course's specific needs.
Instant, Customizable Grading Set your grading rules once and let Feedback Loop apply them automatically across every team, every section, every semester. Grades sync straight to your LMS gradebook with no exporting and no manual entry.
Built Inside Your LMS, Not Bolted On Students complete peer evaluations as a native LMS assignment. No separate login, no extra tool to teach in week one alongside everything else that's new to first-year students.
Individual Accountability at Scale Powerful results views let instructors and TAs drill down from a full course view to team view to single student view all with outlier performance automatically flagged, so struggling teams and students don't go unnoticed until the final project deadline.
University of Notre Dame First-year Engineering
"Feedback Loop allowed the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Notre Dame to seamlessly collect peer feedback on a team project through multiple iterations. The platform is integrated with Canvas, allowing the teams to be transferred without any additional administrative effort."
From Team Formation to Final Grades, in Three Steps
- Form Teams Import rosters from your LMS or generate optimized teams with Team Matcher based on the criteria that matter for your design project.
- Collect Peer Feedback Deploy one or multiple peer evaluations across the semester, directly as LMS assignments.
- Grade Automatically Feedback Loop calculates individual grades from peer input, participation, or a combination of both, and sends them straight to your gradebook.
Better Teamwork Data Means Better Student Outcomes
First-year engineering courses set the tone for how students experience teamwork for the rest of their degree. Structured, continuous peer feedback has been shown to improve individual student outcomes within groups, helping identify struggling students early, surface team dysfunction before it derails a project. Feedback Loop makes it efficient to administer peer evaluations, making it easy to run evals multiple times per course giving students real-world accountability.
Share Performance Insights with Students
Releasing peer evaluation results back to students is a powerful learning tool, but it is overly time-consuming when using forms or document-based peer evaluations. Other tools require an all-or-nothing approach: release the results of all questions or none of them. Feedback Loop provides granular control over which of your peer evaluation questions are included in the released report. The report itself highlights any hidden skills or potential weaknesses, based on both peer and self feedback.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Feedback Loop work with Canvas, D2L, Blackboard, and Moodle? Yes. Feedback Loop integrates natively with all major LMS platforms, so first-year engineering students complete peer evaluations without leaving your existing course environment.
Can I use Feedback Loop for multiple design milestones in one semester? Yes. Many first-year engineering programs deploy peer evaluations at multiple checkpoints throughout a semester-long design project, and Feedback Loop is built to support recurring, low-friction feedback cycles.
Can I import my existing student teams instead of using Team Matcher? Yes. Feedback Loop can import teams directly from your LMS, or you can build optimized teams from scratch using Team Matcher.
Is Feedback Loop only for engineering courses? No — Feedback Loop is used across disciplines, but it's especially popular in first-year and cornerstone engineering design courses because of its support for large-scale team projects and multi-team grading.