Hello and welcome to this lesson on reviewing a digital product.

My name's Mr. Coxed and I'm really looking forward to going through the lesson with you and learning all about how we can review digital products.

Let's get started, and here is the learning outcome for today's lesson.

I can review and provide feedback on a digital product.

And the keywords for today's lesson are feedback, information about a product to inform improvement.

Criteria, a set of standards that something can be judged against, comment, a written or spoken reaction to express an opinion.

And there are two parts to today's lesson.

The first one is providing constructive feedback, and the second part is reviewing a slide deck against criteria.

Let's take a look at the first part of today's lesson and make a start.

So look at the slide below.

Can you spot any issues with it? Remember you can pause the video if you need to take a little bit of time to have a look at the slide and think what you can see that might be wrong with it.

Okay, let's take a look and see some of the things which may be not quite right with this slide.

So the first thing is the text contains spelling mistakes.

The second thing is that text colours are not suitable.

They don't match the branding or the style or the theme, and they can make it a little bit hard to read too.

There's no good reason to use capital letters and it's not consistent anyway.

So you can see the part in red there has lots of capital letters.

All the text is made of capital letters.

There's no need for that and it's not great practise.

The image behind the text is poorly positioned, the text is overlaid on top and makes some of the letters more tricky to read.

The font is not easy to read, it's quite fancy.

It's quite hard to read the text and especially for an audience that might be looking at your slide from a distance.

So well done if you've spotted any of those mistakes, you may have spotted some that we haven't been through and that's great.

So by reviewing the digital products, we can spot things that can be improved and we can then provide feedback to the creator.

So information that is given back to a creator to help them improve their work is known as feedback.

And here we have Laura's slide again and she thinks she's worked really hard on this slide and she hope that Jun thinks it's okay, but care should be taken when providing feedback.

So here's some feedback that Jun has provided to Laura and he says, why do you always spell things wrong Laura? Your spelling is terrible.

How do you think Laura would feel about Jun's feedback? Well, of course Laura feels that it's quite mean of Jun to give her that feedback.

She's worked really hard on the slide and the feedback is not very helpful to her to improve her work.

So Jun is focused on Laura's spelling mistakes rather than suggesting improvements to make.

And this is unkind and unproductive.

Jun didn't mean to upset Laura, And he wants to know how he could improve his feedback.

So Jun could have given Laura more constructive feedback.

And constructive feedback is not only telling somebody what is wrong with their work, but also telling them how they can improve it.

If Jun had given Laura constructive feedback, he would've been considerate of Laura's feelings whilst also helping her to improve.

So here's Jun having another go at creating some constructive feedback this time.

And he said that he really likes the content of your text Laura, I've underlined a few spelling mistakes to correct to improve the text and well done so far.

So Laura of course is really pleased with his feedback.

So she says, thanks Jun, I'm pleased you like my text.

I hadn't noticed the spelling mistakes, so I'll correct them.

And here's the first check for understanding to check your knowledge of constructive feedback.

Which of the following statements is the best example of constructive feedback? Is it A, I don't like your image and it's in the wrong place? B, I really like the image, although maybe it would look better in the empty space on the slide, C, I like the image, but why did you put it there? Which one do you think is the best example of constructive feedback? Pause the video and have a go at that question.

Okay, welcome back and let's take a look at the answer to this question.

So the best example of constructive feedback is of course B.

Okay, it's positive, it points out what needs to be changed, but it's still considerate of the feelings of the other person.

So well done if you've got that correct, don't worry if you didn't.

You can always go back and have a look at the previous content.

Let's take a look at the next part of the lesson.

So providing feedback, constructive feedback can be hard, but it does get easier with practise.

So constructive feedback is to the point and explains facts.

It highlights good things as well as what to improve.

It considers how others might feel about the comments and it makes suggestions but doesn't give commands.

It offers solutions that can help.

So here we can see Laura giving some constructive feedback that is to the point and explains facts.

So a simple font like Lexend would make the slide deck easier for the audience to read.

Great constructive feedback.

And here's Jun, "I really like the detail of your text.

You show real passion for your hobby.

I think the text might need to be simplified though for the audience to understand." Again, it points out what needs to be changed, but it also is constructive and gives positive praise and recognises the good things.

Here's Laura with some more constructive feedback.

I can see you work really hard on this slide Jun, you've included some really interesting information about your hobbies.

So her constructive feedback is considerate about how Jun feels about receiving that feedback.

And here's Jun, giving some feedback that is constructive and makes suggestions but does not give commands.

I wonder if adding a photo to show your hobby would be interesting to the audience.

It might be worth adding a good photo to slide three to show them your skills.

And we have Laura offering some constructive feedback that offers some solutions.

It might be good to add a sentence to the skateboard image on slide three.

Here's a suggestion that might help.

Skateboarding has been a hobby of mine since the age of six.

So constructive feedback offers solutions but doesn't give commands to people.

And the second check for understanding of this part of the lesson.

Constructive feedback is to the point and explains facts.

Is this true or false? Pause the video and have a think about your answer.

Welcome back.

Let's take a look at the answer to this question.

And it is of course true, constructive feedback is to the point and explains facts.

Should be clear and it should focus on the facts and not the person.

Well done if you got that right.

And don't worry if you didn't, you can always go back through the previous slides and have a look at some of the content.

Let's move on to the next part.

So there are many benefits to receiving constructive feedback.

It improves performance, it increases motivation, it boosts confidence.

And here's Jun explaining how he feels about receiving the constructive feedback from Laura.

So thank you for the constructive feedback, Laura.

I'm really looking forward to improving my slide deck using your suggestions.

And I feel really good about sharing my slide deck with the class now.

And there are also many good benefits to giving constructive feedback.

So by giving constructive feedback, we can improve efficiency, we can build our communication skills and it develops leadership skills.

So here's Laura thinking about what it was like to give Jun constructive feedback.

And here's what she said, giving Jun constructive feedback was a really efficient way to get my point across and I think he liked my suggestions.

I think it helped me become a better leader and I enjoyed developing my communication skills and we're on to task A for this lesson.

So Laura has asked for some feedback on how she can improve this slide.

You can see the slide to the right hand side there.

That's the slide that we're going to have a look at.

And question one is to choose two things that you think could be improved on Laura's slide.

And for each point, write two or three sentences to provide Laura with some constructive feedback.

Good luck with this task.

Pause the video and have a go.

And I can't wait to see your constructive feedback.

Okay, welcome back.

Let's take a look at some example answers, I hope you found that task interesting and you managed to come up with some great feedback for Laura.

So here's some feedback from Jun.

So he likes the bright pink colour used for the text, but I wonder if it makes the text a little bit too difficult to read, maybe change it to white.

What do you think Laura? and Laura's response is, "Good point, I think you're right.

I will change the colour to white to make the text easier to read." And here we can see Jun has some second constructive feedback for Laura and he's put, he likes how he's used bullet points to break the text into easy to read sections, but he wonders if the font is a bit too difficult to read from a distance, maybe a simple font would help to make it easier for the audience to read.

And Laura's response is very positive too.

She says, "Thanks Jun.

I do like the font, but maybe it doesn't work well on the slide deck, I will change the font to Lexend to make it easier to read." So again, there we can see Jun's feedback is very constructive.

He's pointed out something that needs to be changed, but at the same time he is offered a solution to Laura.

Well done for that task, I hope you really enjoyed it.

You very much likely got different responses and different types of feedback than Jun.

That's absolutely fine.

Don't worry if you struggled with that little bit.

It does take some time to get used to using constructive feedback.

And you can always rewind the slide deck and go through and have a look at some of the previous content.

Well done and let's move on to the next part of today's lesson.

And the second part of today's lesson is about reviewing the slide deck against criteria.

Let's move on to the first part.

So to assess the quality of a digital product, you can review it and the reviewing process can vary depending on the product being created, but the product is usually assessed against criteria and criteria are a set of standards that something can be judged against.

So criteria provide a set of standards that are used to review how successful a digital product is.

And reviewing a product against criteria helps ensure that focus remains on the quality of the product rather than the creator.

Criteria can help a reviewer provide constructive feedback.

So it can give some structure to the process of giving that constructive feedback.

And a little check for understanding here.

What do we call a set of standards used to assess the quality of a product? Is it A, a template, B, a review, C, table or D criteria? Pause the video and think about your answer.

Welcome back, let's take a look at the answer to this question.

And the answer is of course, D, criteria.

It's a set of standards used to assess the quality of a product.

Well done if you got that right.

Again, don't worry if you didn't, you can always go back and have a look at the previous slides.

Well done and let's move on.

So a rubric is often used to help organise criteria and structure the reviewing process.

So for a slide deck, the rubric may look like this and you can see there the criteria is split across different columns and rows to help structure the process.

When reviewing, we can tick the box that we think reflects the quality of the slide deck.

So for the first section on content, maybe we feel like it's in the middle box.

And for the second part on spelling, maybe we've spotted five or more spelling mistakes.

And for the third part, maybe the branding is great and the presentation's clearly branded and has a great colour scheme that matches.

And then maybe the layout is also excellent and clear and easy to read.

So by using the rubric, we can mark the criteria that we think best fits the slide deck.

And we can also shade each box, red, amber or green to help visualise and identify the areas to improve.

And you can see here that really does help make it stand out and pop out where we think it fits.

And finally, we can add up points from the rubric to form a total.

So from the first part of the criteria, we can see we have two marks for that section.

And from the spelling section we have one mark.

And for this next section we have three for the branding and styling.

And finally the layout section, we've also got three.

So the total score in this case would be all those points added together to give us nine.

So having completed the review, it's now possible to see the main areas for improvements.

And in this case we can see that the spelling and the content are the main areas to develop.

This information can now be used to help write feedback.

Remember, constructive feedback should be kind and positive but also clear about what could be improved.

So here's Jun with some more feedback and he says "I enjoyed reviewing your slide deck, Laura.

The branding, style and layout were excellent throughout.

I have a couple of suggestions to make sure your slide deck could be even better.

I noticed one slide that has some information missing and maybe you forgot to add this.

I also spotted five spelling mistakes that you might want to check.

Overall, I found your slide deck really interesting and I'm sure the audience will really enjoy it." And Laura again is very grateful for the feedback that Jun has given her and thinks that the the feedback is really constructive and she can't wait to get started on making those suggested improvements.

And the second check for understanding on this part of the lesson, what is used to help organise and structure criteria? Is it A, a rubric, B feedback or C, a review? Pause the video and think about your answer.

Okay, welcome back.

Let's take a look at the answer to this question.

And it is of course a rubric as we've been covering this in this part of the lesson used to organise and structure the criteria that we use and it helps us to write our constructive feedback.

Well done if you've got that right, don't worry if you didn't, you can always go back and have a look at some of the previous learning that we've covered and we're onto task B.

So this is the last task of this lesson.

Let's take a look at what we're gonna be doing.

So you've been asked by a charity to review a slide deck using criteria given in a rubric and then provide constructive feedback.

So we're adding our learning about constructive feedback on top of using the criteria and the rubric to provide some feedback on a slide deck.

So if you don't have a slide deck, there is one provided in this lesson that you can download, but if you've got your own, that's absolutely fine to review it too.

So the first part is to review the slide deck using the rubric, just like I outlined previously, review it, you can even use red, amber and green colour coding if you wish to.

Identify two strengths and two areas for improvement.

Remember, you should be able to see this from your rubric and it can really help you to identify those strengths and the areas for improvement.

And three is to write down two pieces of constructive feedback.

Again, remember to the start of the lesson when we spoke about how we need to support the creator by saying what we think needs to be changed, but also giving positive praise and suggesting solutions.

Good luck with this task.

I can't wait to see you reviewing and putting the feedback together and I know you're gonna do a great job.

Pause the video and have a go at this task.

Welcome back and let's have a look at some example answers from this task.

Okay, so first of all, we have Laura and she reviewed one of Jun's slide decks for the Wild Lands charity.

And you can see those slides there.

They're part of the example slide deck you may have used yourself.

If you used your own slide deck, that's absolutely fine.

Obviously it will look slightly different than this.

I'm sure it will.

And you can see here Laura has used the rubric to identify some strengths and some areas for improvement.

And she's also added some points down the side and has a total score of 10.

And the strengths that Laura identified were that she thought the text content and spellings were excellent throughout the slide deck and all slides contain the charity's logo and branding.

Two really good points there and important features of an effective slide deck.

And Laura also identified a couple of areas for improvement and she noticed that one of the images wasn't very relevant to the topic and the text on two of the slides was quite hard to read.

And now that Laura had identified those areas for development and the strengths of the product, she was also able to write some feedback to Jun.

And here's the first part of her feedback.

And she wrote that she liked the image used on slide four, it really suited the theme and the image on slide three doesn't seem to match the theme though, it might be worth changing to something like a butterfly in a forest.

And we've got Jun's response there as well.

And he says, oh, we can see what you mean.

So great idea, I'll change it to a butterfly.

Thank you Laura.

So that's been really helpful feedback for Jun and he can make those changes.

And the second part of Laura's feedback was that she thought slides one and four were really clear and easy to read.

And she did find the text on slides two and three quite tricky to read though because of the fancy font and the different colours.

And she thinks that slides two and three would be easy to read if she used the same font as the colours on slides one and four.

And Jun's response is that he likes Laura's feedback and he does like the fonts and colours, but he agrees that they're hard to read and he'll change them to match the other slides.

So Laura has provided Jun with some excellent constructive feedback there that's helpful to Jun, considerate of his feelings, but also helps to improve the product.

Now I'm sure you got some different feedback from the slide decks and from the slides, that's absolutely fine.

But always remember your feedback should be constructive, it should help improve the product and it should be considerate of people's feelings.

And we can see what Jun thinks the Laura's feedback and he thought he was very constructive.

It helped him improve the quality of the slide deck and now it looks even better than before.

And I'm sure you'll agree this slide deck does look better now that Jun has made those changes.

And Laura is also really pleased that she feels like her feedback helped Jun to make a better product.

And she also thinks that his slide deck looks great.

So well done for completing that task.

I'm sure you provided some really constructive, positive feedback that helped improve a slide deck.

Remember, it can be hard to give constructive feedback.

It is something that gets easier with time and your feedback will be at better quality and it will help improve products even more.

So by practising , we can get better at this.

You've done a brilliant job in today's lesson.

I'm really proud of what you've done.

Let's take a look at the summary for the lesson.

So feedback should be constructive and give ideas for making improvements.

Criteria can be used to review the quality of a digital product and a rubric can be used to help assess the product against criteria and help you give constructive feedback.

So well done for completing today's lesson on reviewing a digital product, and I look forward to seeing you in future lessons.