To help improve faculty-to-student communications, “Feedback Box” is available in Canvas. The “Feedback Box” is a simple LTI plug-in that lets students send safe, anonymous feedback to professors anytime during the course.
To help improve faculty-to-student communications, the LTI plug-in Feedback Box lets students send safe, anonymous feedback through Canvas to professors anytime. Students can message their faculty anonymously and confidentially to voice concerns about issues in the classroom and allow the faculty member to respond, all while protecting the privacy of the student.
The faculty member can receive suggestions about speed, tone of voice, overall classroom presence, and even encouragement without waiting until the semester's end via course evaluations. While the course evaluations are helpful, getting that feedback can also be too late to solve any problems voiced by students while enrolled in the course. This kind of communication can also improve students' engagement, especially if they perceive they cannot speak openly in class, as students cannot view one another's Feedback Box submissions.
To view a reply from the instructor, click on View Replies in the Feedback Box section.
For faculty wanting to use Feedback Box, we recommend announcing the feature in class or as an announcement within Canvas. We also suggest prompting the students with the type of feedback they can provide.
Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, hosted Feedback Box for a short webinar in 2017. They discussed the value of immediate student feedback, walked through the simple functionality, and discussed the overwhelmingly positive use cases to date.