Providing effective feedback is critical for student learning and satisfaction in the online environment. There are several strategies instructors can use to make your feedback more impactful for students.

 

Here are some essential tips:

• Build Instructor-Student Rapport: Personalize feedback by using students' names, an informal tone, and relating feedback to specific student work.
• Promote Student Motivation and Engagement: Provide feedback quickly to reinforce learning and allow students to improve before assessments. Timeliness promotes student motivation and engagement.
• Improve Student Learning: Use formative assessments like discussion posts or low-stakes quizzes to check understanding and give elaborative feedback throughout the course.
• Aid in Student Learning: Give both verification feedback on whether answers are right/wrong and elaborative feedback explaining why and how to improve.
• Use Tech: Leverage technology tools like screencasts or annotation tools to provide quality elaborative feedback efficiently without overly increasing grading time.
• Incorporate Variety: Vary feedback modes using text, audio, or video. Variety accommodates different learning preferences.
• Reinforces Purpose: Relate feedback directly to the course learning objectives so students understand the relevance to core course goals.

Providing personalized, timely, and formative feedback in various modes allows you to have a more significant impact on student learning and satisfaction.

 

The following videos describe further strategies and methods for creating effective feedback.

 

Using Audio Feedback

 

The content of the following case study is helpful. We recommend using Canvas Audio or Video Feedback when possible.

Case Study Using Audio Feedback

 

Standard 6.47 (the OSCQR Rubric)