After a project is complete, employers provide feedback to and receive feedback from the teams they worked with.
The feedback you provide will appear on the learner's profiles and is often used as part of their online portfolio, resumes, and more. The feedback you receive will appear on your profile ad can be seen by other users to demonstrate that you have experience working with learners, and can effectively run a project which will help users build trust with you quickly for future projects.
General
Criteria
At the end of a project, the project administrators and the team are asked to assess their experience working together by providing feedback.
This feedback criteria when providing feedback to the team is:
An overall rating out of 5 stars
A public feedback comment
A private feedback comment (optional)
A rating out of 5 stars for the specific skills of (optional):
Communication
Creativity
Professionalism
Critical thinking
Employability
This feedback criteria receiving feedback from the team is:
An overall rating out of 5 stars
A public feedback comment
A private feedback comment (optional)
A rating out of 5 stars for the specific skills of (optional):
Communication
Preparedness
Professionalism
Responsiveness
You will not be able to view the feedback you received until you provide feedback. You can edit the feedback you have given within 10 days if the other party has not provided feedback to you yet.
Endorsements
When providing feedback to the team, you can optionally choose to provide endorsements to any specific members of the team. These endorsements include:
A public comment
Any skills the learner demonstrated
These endorsements will show up on a learner's individual profile alongside their team feedback for the project.
Learners often use these endorsements as part of their online portfolios, resumes, and more, so make sure to give endorsements where they are warranted!
How to
Provide feedback
To provide feedback to a team at the end of a project, follow these steps:
Navigate to your team for the project you want to provide feedback.
Click the “Give feedback” button.
Reporting feedback
If you’ve received feedback that you think is inappropriate, inaccurate, or just have a general objection to, you can report the feedback for Riipen to review and assess with these steps:
Navigate to your profile and click on the “Feedback” tab.
Click on the feedback you wish to report.
Click on the "Report this content" link
Fill in the subsequent form and click "Submit"
Riipen will receive the feedback and assess possible next steps including editing or removing of the feedback.
Best practices
When providing feedback to teams:
Offer specific examples or instances to support your feedback. Vague comments may not be as useful for the learner..
Respect confidentiality and refrain from sharing sensitive information about the learners.
Offer constructive suggestions for improvement alongside your feedback (you may choose to include this in the optional private feedback section).
Provide feedback promptly after project completion.
Refer to Riipen’s feedback policy for more information on what feedback should and should not include.