Feedback Loop Knowledge Base
Getting Started
Releasing Results to Students for Tailored Performance Reporting
Feedback Loop released results provide powerful, tailored reporting for students to reflect on and learn from their performance on a team.
Smart Team Matching in Feedback Loop
Matching student teams in Feedback Loop is easy and fast. This article details how to use this feature.
How Feedback Loop Automated Grading Works
Feedback Loop can automate the grading of students’ peer feedback results in a snap! Save hours of time with this feature.
How to Send Surveys in Feedback Loop
Sending surveys in Feedback Loop is easy and includes several options to personalize your peer feedback experience.
Viewing Results in Feedback Loop
Feedback Loop calculates and displays survey results for Instructor view in three layers: all teams, all students and individual students.
Frequently Asked Questions
How to Retrieve Survey Links
How to retrieve the direct link to your survey if you ever need support.
How to Reopen Surveys
This article explains how to reopen a closed Feedback Loop survey to allow students to submit peer feedback after the original close date.
How to Retrieve Canvas Course Deployment ID
Full details for how to retrieve your deployment ID to authorize Feedback Loop for your course if using a course Feedback Loop license.
Use Unique Values for Survey Question Responses
For questions with a menu of options, (e.g. Likert scales) Internal Values are the numbers linked to a response. For example: Strongly Agree is by default 5 points on a 5 point scale. Ensure each Internal Value is not repeated to avoid issues.
Update Teams for a Survey
Click Update Teams within a draft survey to retrieve the latest student teams if you have made any changes.
Including Instructors in Peer Feedback
Feedback Loop can be used to include instructors in student peer feedback. This articles details how to use this feature for true 360 peer feedback.
How Feedback Loop Automated Grading Works
Feedback Loop can automate the grading of students’ peer feedback results in a snap! Save hours of time with this feature.
How to Send Surveys in Feedback Loop
Sending surveys in Feedback Loop is easy and includes several options to personalize your peer feedback experience.
How to Close the Loop on Feedback Received
Feedback Loop’s Closing the Loop feature allows students and instructors to reflect and respond to students’ peer feedback.
How to Send Feedback Loop Grades to LMS Gradebook
How to send the automatically generated grades (based on your grading style) from Feedback Loop to your LMS’ gradebook for seamless grading.
How to Share Survey Templates Across Your School
Feedback Loop’s survey template sharing feature allows every school that uses Feedback Loop to build their own library…
All Documentation
Releasing Results to Students for Tailored Performance Reporting
Feedback Loop released results provide powerful, tailored reporting for students to reflect on and learn from their performance on a team.
How to Retrieve Survey Links
How to retrieve the direct link to your survey if you ever need support.
Smart Team Matching in Feedback Loop
Matching student teams in Feedback Loop is easy and fast. This article details how to use this feature.
Using Feedback Loop in Canvas Blueprint Courses
Feedback Loop now supports Canvas blueprint courses for copying forward surveys created in a blueprint course into many sub courses.
How to Reopen Surveys
This article explains how to reopen a closed Feedback Loop survey to allow students to submit peer feedback after the original close date.
How to Retrieve Canvas Course Deployment ID
Full details for how to retrieve your deployment ID to authorize Feedback Loop for your course if using a course Feedback Loop license.
Use Unique Values for Survey Question Responses
For questions with a menu of options, (e.g. Likert scales) Internal Values are the numbers linked to a response. For example: Strongly Agree is by default 5 points on a 5 point scale. Ensure each Internal Value is not repeated to avoid issues.
Update Teams for a Survey
Click Update Teams within a draft survey to retrieve the latest student teams if you have made any changes.
Including Instructors in Peer Feedback
Feedback Loop can be used to include instructors in student peer feedback. This articles details how to use this feature for true 360 peer feedback.
How to Download Grades in Feedback Loop
How to download grades in an LMS-friendly format for manual uploading of Feedback Loop survey grades into your LMS. Especially useful if your LMS grade push times out due to large-course size (an issue that will be addressed in a subsequent product update).
How Feedback Loop Automated Grading Works
Feedback Loop can automate the grading of students’ peer feedback results in a snap! Save hours of time with this feature.
Sending Surveys to Selected Group Sets
Feedback Loop supports the group sets feature that is common in many LMS tools, allowing instructors to send peer feedback to selected group sets.
How to Send Surveys in Feedback Loop
Sending surveys in Feedback Loop is easy and includes several options to personalize your peer feedback experience.
How to Close the Loop on Feedback Received
Feedback Loop’s Closing the Loop feature allows students and instructors to reflect and respond to students’ peer feedback.
Survey Response Status Indicators
Feedback Loop auto-saves all survey responses and these status indicators identify complete, completed but late, and partially complete responses.
How to Send Feedback Loop Grades to LMS Gradebook
How to send the automatically generated grades (based on your grading style) from Feedback Loop to your LMS’ gradebook for seamless grading.
Linking Feedback Loop Surveys to Brightspace Assignments
Brightspace surveys: see how Feedback Loop peer feedback surveys can be linked to a D2L Brightspace assignment for a seamless user experience.
Updating Survey Content After Creating a Survey
Survey content can be updated after creating a survey and before sending a survey. Once sent, the content is locked in to preserve past data.
Student Performance Report: Releasing Results
Feedback Loop generates a tailored performance report for students to learn from their peer feedback with one click. This feature is an optional, powerful learning tool.
360° Surveys in Feedback Loop with Team Lead Option
Learn how to assign team leaders and incorporate team leader-only survey questions in your peer reviews for a proper 360.
How to Share Survey Templates Across Your School
Feedback Loop’s survey template sharing feature allows every school that uses Feedback Loop to build their own library…
Survey Question Types
Detailing every question and field type available in Feedback Loop. Build the ultimate peer survey template using this tool.
Setting Questions to Releasable vs Private
Feedback Loop can provide a student performance report that faculty can release to students with one click. Decide which questions’ results get released by setting them to releasable or private.
How to Preview Released Survey Results
Releasing a performance report to students can be a powerful learning tool. This guide explains how to preview that report beforehand.
How to Send Survey Reminders
In Feedback Loop, send a survey reminder to any students who have not yet completed their peer review survey with a single click.
Viewing Results in Feedback Loop
Feedback Loop calculates and displays survey results for Instructor view in three layers: all teams, all students and individual students.
Import or Build Student Teams in Feedback Loop
How to import student teams from your LMS into Feedback Loop and update those team rosters right in Feedback Loop.
Building a Survey Template
How to build a survey template in Feedback Loop that you can send once or many times (and even reuse across semesters!)