What is the AI Feedback Analysis tool in Portflow?
The AI Feedback Analysis tool in Portflow provides an analysis and summary of the qualitative feedback received in the goal card.
Over time, a student may receive a large amount of feedback. This feedback can be collected at the level of evidence items, collections, and goals (progress reviews). All this feedback, from the various involved perspectives, is brought together in the aggregated overview of the goal card. The AI Feedback Analysis tool analyzes all this feedback and summarizes it into tips and tops.
All data is processed confidentially and in accordance with applicable EU laws and regulations by Microsoft Azure in Sweden; see also the Trust Portal. Only information that is already included in the feedback is shown in the summary.
How can the AI Feedback Analysis tool be used?
The tool can be used by anyone who has access to the goal card. On the goal card, under the Feedback tab, the AI Analysis button is available, which generates a summary at the top of the goal card. Each time new feedback is added to the goal card, the summary can be regenerated using this button.
With this analysis and summary, the student quickly gains insight into strengths (tops) and improvement points (tips) based on all the feedback received on a goal (learning-path-independent learning outcome, competency, personal goal, etc.).
A coach or workplace supervisor can use the tool to quickly gain insight into the feedback in preparation for coaching conversations.
An assessor or assessment committee can use the tool to quickly obtain structured input for assessment.
How can you promote meaningful use of AI by students?
The rise of generative AI is here to stay. In education, this has shifted the focus from discouraging and detecting (unauthorized) AI use to responsibly integrating generative AI into the curriculum.
Responsible integration means, among other things, that an AI tool is not used as a replacement, but as support or a supplement—and therefore as an accelerator for learning. Students must continue to think for themselves and check, enrich, and give meaning to what AI produces. Therefore, position the AI Feedback Analysis tool accordingly when introducing Portflow. Make it clear that the AI summary only provides an initial structuring, and that student reflection remains leading. Provide clear assignments or explicitly state expectations.
To prevent students from using this tool as a final destination, it is useful to plan follow-up activities. The summary can help to quickly see the big picture, organize feedback into main and secondary issues, and move more quickly to action points. This supports self-regulation, reflection, and feedback literacy. Therefore, link assignments to the summary (for example via activities in Portflow), such as:
- First create your own summary and compare it with the AI-generated summary.
- Indicate which point is not included in the summary but is important to you.
- State where you agree or disagree with the summary and explain why for each point.
- Evaluate the AI summary for completeness, specificity, and accuracy (sufficient/insufficient). Justify your judgment.
- Indicate what you did (and did not do) with the summary and why. Also name concrete action points and their priority.