Want to learn how to diversify student feedback, and set yourself up to work smarter, not harder this school year?
Giving students effective feedback improves student performance, and with Kami it’s so much easier to provide personalized and constructive feedback that meets their individual needs.
What’s more, Kami helps simplify the feedback process giving you more time to help students meet their learning goals.
- Find out the different formats and types of feedback you can provide with Kami using tools like Text and Screen Capture comments
- Help include learners in the feedback process with comment threads, allowing them to ask questions and check-in
- Use stickers to provide motivation or positive feedback, or to let students know they’re almost there
- Pick the feedback format that you know is best for your learners and their learning style
Whether it’s for an individual or small group, teacher feedback or peer-to-peer feedback, younger students or even high school learners — the tips and tricks in this video will help everyone level up their feedback.
Hey fam, I’m Sophie, your Teacher Success Champion, and I love helping out my people, you, teachers. And today I’m going to help you out with some ideas for providing effective feedback to your students. With Kami of course!
In order to make sure the feedback is effective, we’re going to use the five key guidelines, we’re going to be specific, timely, focused, inclusive, and careful. You want your feedback to be specific, give tangible and transparent feedback, mark the work exactly where the feedback belongs, using your Text box and Drawing Tool. I’m even going to put the Highlighter on so the students know that I’ve written here and it catches their eye. And I’m going to say… Here, we also have where they’re like 50-50, there’s no label. So I’m gonna also write here… 50-what. All right here, we also have a little discrepancy where there’s like a five, but then the 50 is over here. So I’m going to use my Drawing Tool. What are we talking about? What’s going on? You can even use your stickers to give them some guidance. So for this one, I’m going to hit the Add Media tool, click the smiley face, which opens the Stickers and number one, they are almost there. So I’m going to click on that one and click it onto the page so that the student knows they are almost there. Second one is, Let’s revise because it really needs some work. The third question, it’s perfect. So I’m going to actually find one that’s like this is excellent.
You also want your feedback to be focused on the goal, provide actionable feedback that is directly related to the goal at hand. Go over here to the Comment tool, you have four options. I’m going to use the Text Comment first on the first question here. And I’m going to be specific here until I ask them to please review your work. So for the second problem here, the math itself is done correctly, but they started off with an incorrectly set up proportion. So I’m going to use the Screen Capture comment. So this feedback is focusing specifically on how to properly set up a proportion. So I give them two examples of how they can set it up properly. And then I say, Okay, try again. I’m even going to put a label in here that says to watch this for some advice. Once I’m done with a Screen Capture, you want to erase all of your work that you did, so that they now have space to rework the problem.
Next, you want your feedback to be timely, give ongoing feedback reasonably quickly, strategically pick the questions that you give your best feedback on, and then save the corrections that often repeat. That’s right, I said save them in your Annotation Bank in Kami. Your Annotation Bank can be found up here where it says toggle sidebar next to the Kami logo, you could click on the toggle sidebar and it will pop open your Annotation Bank. You can even make folders and name them. Open them up and drop annotations that you have saved into your Annotation Bank. Just save space to use your saved annotations, you use the directional arrows, you click on it and drag them out onto the page as needed. And I can use it over and over again as many times as I want to. Now you might be thinking, how do you save that to your Annotation Bank? I’ll show you. All of your annotations that you put on your page. When you hover over them. This little mini toolbar pops up, you’ll see the exact same file cabinet or moving box. So you can click on that. And it will ask you sometimes depending on the annotation to say that with a name or just confirm it right out, you’ll be able to see when you go to your Annotation Bank. Your last save annotation is all the way at the bottom.
Additionally, you want your feedback to be inclusive. Let them be part of their feedback process. The neat thing about your comments is that you can create threads, your students can reply to your comments. They can even use the comments to ask you questions, making them part of the feedback process. Most importantly, you want to be careful when providing feedback. Explain the purpose of the feedback and ensure to students that the feedback is there to help them grow, not to compete with their peers. Now you might be sitting here thinking which tool should I apply when providing the most effective feedback? Use the tool that best fits the student’s needs. If the student has auditory processing disorder, then if you were to use the Voice Comment, that feedback would be useless. But if you use the Text and Drawing Tool, then that feedback is going to be more effective.
Good feedback could seem like an impossible task, but with Kami it is totally doable. And remember, you don’t have to start with all of this at the beginning. Take baby steps to integrate the five key feedback guidelines. And rest assured we here at Kami, we’ve got you.