Create and Manage FeedbackFruits Templates

Introduction

Templates are an excellent organizational and time-saving feature built into FeedbackFruits. Templates allow you to create and configure FeedbackFruits activities in a private library (in the FeedbackFruits platform) external to Brightspace. This allows you to pre-configure FeedbackFruits activities and deploy them multiple times and/or to multiple Brightspace courses if you wish, then making only slight adjustments to suit each deployment.

When inserting a template into Brightspace, FeedbackFruits creates a copy of the template with all your settings, instructions, and other text, rubrics, scales, and configurations already set. Then, you can simply adjust the instructions, configurations, and scheduling deadlines for each instance of the template you're inserting into that specific course.

There are three options for creating FeedbackFruits content:

• Templates
• Start from Scratch
• Learning Journeys

You can access FeedbackFruits from the Existing Activities menu within a course Content module.

Depending on your past experience/use of FeedbackFruits, the FeedbackFruits landing page will appear one of the following ways:

New User with no templates

You'll have icons along the left-side navigation for Home, My library, Start from scratch, and Learning Design Community. In the middle of the screen you will also have larger icons for Start from scratch and Learning Design Community.

Previous user with items in template library

You'll have icons along the left-side navigation for Home, Institutional library, My library, Past activities, Start from scratch, and Learning Design Community. In the middle of the screen you will also have icons for My library, Institutional libraries, Past activities, Start from scratch, and Learning Design Community.

1. Home screen (the home screen is pictured in the images above)
2. Institutional Library (library that can contain institution-wide content)
3. My Library (your personal library for templates and learning journeys)
4. Past Activities (a list of FF content you've created in the past)
5. Start from Scratch (build a FF assignment and immediately insert into the Brightspace course)
6. Learning Design community (a worldwide library of various templates and rubrics)

Create Templates

The following instructions will navigate you through how to create a FeedbackFruits activity template.

Step 1

From the FeedbackFruits home screen, select the My Library button.

Step 2

Depending on whether you already have existing templates or not you will need to select one of the following options.

Step 2a

If you don't have any templates created yet, select My Library. This will open your FeedbackFruits library in a separate browser tab where you can create, edit, and manage your FeedbackFruits templates.

Step 2b

If you already have some existing templates, select the You can edit your existing templates and create new ones in the library banner/button. This will open your FeedbackFruits library in a separate browser tab where you can create, edit, and manage your FeedbackFruits templates.

Step 3

Once you have navigated to your My Library, select the Green + icon at the bottom right to create a new template.

Step 4

Select the tool in which you want to create a template. Give the activity a name at the top and make all the adjustments you desire. When done select the SAVE button at the top right to save it as a template in your My Library.

Manage and Edit Your Templates

You have the capability to manage and edit the templates you create. You can change the order in which they appear, duplicate them, send a copy, delete them, as well as mute email notifications regarding them.

Step 1

Access your FeedbackFruits My Library as done in the Create Templates section above.

Step 2

When you have a list of templates created in My Library, select the three dots icon for one of your templates.

Step 3

You will have the option to choose one of the following actions:

• Edit - opens your template activity in the editor so you can make changes.
• Duplicate - allows you to make a copy of your template as a springboard for a new activity or to move to another shared space.
• Send a copy - allows you to send a copy of this activity to anyone that has access to FeedbackFruits. Generic data such as settings, instructions, criteria and notes will be copied. Student data will not be copied.
• Delete - allows you to delete the template.
• Mute/unmute email notifications - allows you to mute/unmute email notifications related to this template.
• Move down/up - allows you to move the template down or up to adjust the order of your templates listed.

Create a Template from an Existing Activity

You can also create a template from an existing FeedbackFruits activity.

Step 1

Locate and select the link to the activity that you inserted within your Brightspace course content module. This will open the activity in a new browser tab.

Step 2

Select the More options menu in the upper right.

Step 3

Select Create template...

Step 4

Give the template a name and choose where to save it. Select SAVE AS TEMPLATE.

Use Pre-made Templates from Learning Design Community

Once you have selected Existing Activities from within a Brightspace course content module and chosen FeedbackFruits, select Learning Design Community to browse templates that have been utilized by other instructors in the community, provided by FeedbackFruits.