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Floop is for feedback loop. It is an app designed for teachers to provide timely, actionable feedback to their students. It is also designed to allow students to provide anonymous peer feedback to one another.
Research by Hattie and Timperley (2007) indicates that "Feedback is among the most critical influences on student learning." Floop is an incredibly useful feedback tool that enables a teacher to provide meaningful feedback much more quickly than hand writing feedback on papers, and it provides the teacher with useful data as well. If you save your comments, you simply need to drag the comment to the new place you want to reuse it, and drop it in place. You do not need to retype the comment. Additionally, Floop keeps track of how many times you use/reuse each comment so you can see what things you may need to reteach or for which you need to provide additional practice.
Floop also enables you to arrange anonymous peer feedback so the students not only receive feedback from their peers, but you can teach them how to provide useful feedback as well. This helps them see the value of good, actionable feedback. The peer review is scaffolded to help students provide useful feedback. Floop provides a curriculum for teaching your students how to learn from feedback.
Hattie, J., & Timperley, H. (2007). The Power of Feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77(1), 81–112. doi: 10.3102/003465430298487
After creating a teacher account, you set up classes and make assignments in those classes. The assignments in Floop should correspond to assignments that you want students to submit for feedback. Each class will have a class code. Students will need to sign up for a student account with Floop and use the class code to access the class. They may use a computer or a mobile device. On a mobile device, they may use the browser or the iOS app.
To submit an assignment for feedback, the assignment must be a photo or a PDF. If they completed the assignment on paper, the easiest way to submit the assignment is for them to take a picture of it. The app allows them to easily add multiple pictures for assignments with multiple pages.
Once a student submits the assignment, you, the teacher, can see the assignment. Students can submit assignments during class, or before or after class, depending on the due date and time you set for the assignment. Open a student assignment, and read their submission. When you want to make a comment, either click where you want the comment inserted and type it, or if it is a comment you have previously made, drag it from the list to where you want the comment on this student's assignment. When you are finished providing feedback to that student, a mouse click sends it back to them with the feedback for corrections or other adjustments and they can resubmit the work.
The feedback you, as the teacher, receive from Floop is as helpful to you as the feedback they receive through Floop from you. You can easily see which comments you made the most, indicating your students need more instruction or more practice on certain skills to continue to grow academically. This allows you to target your lessons and provide appropriate remediation.
Some helpful videos to get you started implementing Floop in your lessons.
Some helpful links to get you started implementing Floop in your lessons.
Created By: C. Cox