Floop is a cloud-based webapp that allows for quick feedback (text and/or audio) on assignments. Works with PDFs, gDocs, and images. Students upload assingments from any internet-connected device. Teachers can respond by inserting feedback comments in places they have marked. There are free and low cost versions available for educators. As of 1/22 cost is $84 per year or $10 month for educators.
Type of Material:
Assessment Tool
Recommended Uses:
Helpful for use in homework and assignments as well as projects, peer-review sessions or self-paced work. Can be used for both intermediate and final assessment.
Technical Requirements:
works with any internet-connected device
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Floop is designed to be a collabrative feedback platform to help teachers provide annotated feedback to students who can then respond and/or revise their assignments. Feedback can be written or oral.
Target Student Population:
Grade School, Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Must have account.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
Floop provides a way for specific feedback from the teacher and/or peers. Teachers are able to view student replies. Students can submit revised or new versions of the target area that was initially marked with feedback. Floop supports the formative assessment process in the given assignment.
The site is easy to use and can work with a variety of student assignments. There are multiple support documents as well as the opportunity for users to participate in research about feedback.
Concerns:
There are privacy concerns that personally identified information is collected while using this tool. Floop does not have an accesibility statement or policy on their website.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Beyond actual classroom conversations, Floop provides a systematic way to provide feedback to students to keep them learning and moving forward. Floop would be appropriate to use after a well-developed assignment has been given and students have opportunities to submit work along the way. Scaffolding the assignment content and challenges with Floop would help students become critical and creative thinkers. Students can view feedback and respond instantly or ask questions in privately.
Concerns:
When Floop is used for peer reviews, teachers cannot respond. So parameters for feedback from peers needs to be clearly established before being given.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The Floop website includes a video tutorial and supporting links and documentation for enrolling students, creating an assignment, viewing student submissions, giving feedback, conducting a peer review, rotating student submissions, and curriuculum activities for using Floop.
Concerns:
None.
Creative Commons:
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