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Process Feedback shows a student’s work as a visual journey, enabling educators to see the process, provide personalized feedback to students, and grade fast.
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Used by Thousands
of Students, Globally
A Tool for Learners to Seek Feedback on Their Creative Process
An Irresistible Tool for Educators to Fully Engage Students and Nurture Thinking Skills
When your students use Process Feedback to complete assignments, you can see their entire process summary in a single PDF report. You can instantly find students who deserve your appreciation and those who need attention. It is a tool to empower yourself, teach your techniques more effectively, and to grade deep but fast.
Three Ways to Use Process Feedback Into Your Course
Simply ask your students to go to processfeedback.org to do their assignment, and submit to you their process report.
Create an editor for your course to use throughout a term. This is our recommended option.
Create a question for your students to respond so you can compare all submissions in a single dashboard.
After asking students to use Process Feedback, educators can grade as usual and instantly see students’ process in their existing learning systems. With no required login, students can instantly start working on their assignments and submit as usual.
To provide a privacy-centered experience for students, we do not track, collect personal data, or run web analytics. Students are not monitored or controlled while they are writing or coding. They can share their process to their instructors or peers only when they feel confident and ready.
Using Process Feedback, writers can self-explore their writing habits and self-reflect on challenging passages. Exploring the evolution of paragraphs and sentences, writers can also investigate deleted content to understand the why behind the changes.
Process Feedback enables a programmer or the course instructor to see the code, outputs, inputs, code execution history, copy-paste actions, deleted code, evolution of the code, and the breaks taken, all in one comprehensive report. It also enables exploring why certain aspects were challenging, regardless of whether a programmer’s code executes successfully or fails.
Process Feedback enables a course instructor to instantly see a student’s code, outputs, inputs, code execution history, copy-paste actions, deleted code, evolution of the code, and the breaks taken, all in one comprehensive report. The time that would otherwise be spent in speculating about a student’s submission can be used to explore why certain aspects were challenging for the student and provide personalized feedback.
When students share their process behind their work, instructors can provide meaningful feedback. Students also earn appreciation for their work. This promotes engagement, independent work, and self-directed learning.
Our online compiler supports all popular programming languages including Python, C++, and Java. Since research shows that students are more engaged with visual programming, we recently developed support for Python’s Turtle library.
Did you know? Google Docs automatically records your writing history. Now, with Process Feedback, you can visualize your writing process effortlessly. You can explore the effort behind any of your documents in Google Docs and see your creative journey. Coming Soon!
We have served 5000+ Student assignments at several universities, colleges, and schools.
We have served 5000+ student assignments at several universities, colleges, and schools.
Educator FAQs
Given that Process Feedback does not require any sign up or login, it is extremely easy to use for both educators and students. It can also easily integrate with your institution’s learning management system such as Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle. We offer three options for educators to use it in their course. The easiest option is to simply ask students to go to www.processfeedback.org to complete their assignments. Please read our Educator Guide to learn more about the options.
Yes, Process Feedback can be used for giving online assignments or exams. It is, however, critical to inform students ahead of time that you will be assessing their process, not just outcome.
Yes, Process Feedback works regardless of whether or not students are allowed to use AI for completing their work. Whether students write or code independently or AI-assisted, Process Feedback’s report can show the evolution of the content.
For those who intend to plagiarize, the accessibility of generative AI technologies makes paraphrasing text or code super easy. In education, plagiarism detection is becoming less and less effective. While Process Feedback does not do external plagiarism detection, instructors can compare student-to-student submissions with our “Create Question” option. Please read our Educator Guide to learn more.
Process Feedback comes with a free live chat feature available for both educators and students. If our support team is not available right away, we try our best to respond to emails within 24 hours. You can also email us anytime at contact@processfeedback.org.
Copy-pasting text or code itself may or may not be a concern depending on a context and an instructor’s requirements. Sometimes a student may copy-paste their own code or text from elsewhere. Hence students should not be penalized simply for copy-pasting. However, students can be penalized for “not following requirements.” If the requirement in your assignment is to use the Process Feedback editor throughout their writing or coding process, and not copy-paste at all, you have the rubrics in place to grade accordingly.
Although Process Feedback is not a proctoring tool and does not monitor students, seeing a student’s process report and summaries, the instructor may be able to infer if the student’s process is original. For instance, in a computer programming assignment if a student has no code executions and steady typing speed, the instructor may have evidence to check with the student if the work is original.
We support all popular programming languages such as Python, Python Turtle, C++, and Java. We are in the process of developing support for Jupyter Notebooks and interactive console. Please stay tuned.
General FAQs
As you write or code in the Process Feedback it creates snapshots of your editor content and saves to your local device. It tracks your edits, the time spent, the frequency of revisions or returns to specific paragraphs, and other pertinent details of your writing or coding journey. The recorded process information can be viewed anytime in the form of several insightful and easy charts. For example, a chart can show how often you took breaks during the writing or how often the sentences were revised after the first typing. These charts are interactive. They allow you to explore and drill down to specific details. After writing, you can download a process report PDF of your writing which includes these process-revealing charts along with the final writing. In the case of a coding task, the report also includes code output and execution history. As needed, you can share the report with your educator or peers. For writers, Process Feedback is also compatible with Google Docs. You can continue to use Google Doc for your tasks and generate a process report using Process Feedback.
Although there may be minor precision errors, the overall report summaries and the visualizations are approximately correct. If you suspect that there are errors please email us and we will fix them.
By default, Process Feedback, records the editor contents every five seconds.
Process Feedback is currently in “beta” version and is tested mostly only for the Google Chrome browser. While we are regularly fixing bugs and updating the website, several limitations exist. For instance, our web application is not thoroughly tested on mobile devices. The website also does not work well in “incognito” browser windows because in such a model a browser’s storage is not persistent.
Almost all online tools today provide services for free but either at the cost of collecting user data or displaying ads. This is why most of them “require” signing up or logging in. At Process Feedback, accessibility and user-privacy are our top values and we intend to keep the tool free for educators and students worldwide.
Yes. Process Feedback is compatible with your documents in Google Docs, even the ones you wrote in the past. In case you don’t know, Google Docs also records all of our edit history. To view the process of your Google Doc, all you need is the “edit link” to your document. Try our Google Docs report generator soon. We plan to release it at the end of February 2024.
Student FAQs
While Process Feedback should work with most standard browsers, it is extensively tested in the Google Chrome browser. Hence, we recommend using Google Chrome on a desktop or a laptop device.
Mostly yes. We have tested the application in most mobile devices and it should work fine. However, for best experience, we recommend using a desktop or laptop type device.
No. Students are not monitored while they are writing or coding. Our web application has no server side communication while a student is doing their work (except when executing code or starting a chat). Please read more in the “Learners Are Not Monitored or Controlled during Their Creative Process” section of the journal article published in Education Sciences. An educator can see a student’s submission only when the student chooses to “submit” the task to the educator.
Our PDF generating technique is optimized to perform best on a Google Chrome browser in a desktop or a laptop. If you are facing issues when downloading the Process Report PDF on an iPhone, iPad, or Safari, following are some options.
Option 1. Save the task online and share the link instead.
Option 2. Change the option for generating PDF by following the steps below:
Step 1. On the sidebar, click Settings.
Step 2. Under “Process Report PDF Settings” check the box on the right of “Generate PDF for iPad or iPhone”
Step 3. Click Save and try downloading the report PDF again.
