Rflect is assessment infrastructure for human skills. It turns structured reflection into a defensible record of how a student's thinking actually developed over time, not what they performed in a single exam.

Rflect develops students' human skills — the personal, social and cognitive skills that matter in work and life but are hard to teach through traditional methods. It combines five elements in one platform:

• Self-Reflection — guided prompts that get students thinking about their own thinking and connecting course content to their lives. The backbone of Rflect.
• Self-Assessment — scientifically validated scales at the start and end of a program, giving students a snapshot of their strengths, language to describe what they're developing, and visible progress over time.
• Peer Assessment — structured feedback from classmates, and from people outside the course such as supervisors or mentors.
• Personal Learning Goals — students turn assessment results into concrete, personal goals (AI-supported to make them SMART).
• Peer Coaching — you assign groups and send a ready-to-go script; students meet on- or offline and return to Rflect to share what they learned.

The effect: students move from passive recipients of knowledge to active drivers of their own learning.

Three dimensions:

• Designer — you choose which skills to develop, which reflection prompts to send and when, and each topic's privacy setting. The Rflect TA can walk you through it, or you can do it manually.
• Facilitator & Monitor — you track engagement at class level and intervene early when students fall behind.
• Coach (optional) — when students share reflections with you, you can reply to deepen their thinking.

What you cannot see: individual self-assessment results (only aggregated class results) and private reflections — by design, so students answer honestly. You use Rflect to create the conditions for growth; the development happens in the student.

• Data Storage — All user data is stored with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Frankfurt, Germany, following the latest security protocols. Hosting in the EU means the data falls under European data protection standards.
• Data Ownership & Roles
  • Your university/institution is the data controller — they own the data and are responsible for how it's used. The university also contractually agrees that private reflection data will never be shared with them without explicit consent of the student.
  • Rflect acts as the data processor — we handle the data on behalf of your institution, but do not own it.

For more, you can view our privacy policy on our Imprint page.

Yes. Rflect is used as a credit-bearing component at several universities, with a typical allocation of 1–3 ECTS per semester.

Good to know: Program learning outcomes can be entered in Rflect and mapped to human skills, and pre/mid/post assessments (self, peer, and third-party) generate structured, longitudinal documentation of competency development — usable as direct measures for accreditation processes such as AACSB Assurance of Learning.

If you're considering integrating Rflect as a marked course component, we're happy to share how other institutions have approached it: info@rflect.ch.

Rflect supports LTI 1.3 integrations with platforms such as Moodle, Canvas and Blackboard. Working with another platform? Get in touch so we can discuss a bespoke LTI integration.

Yes, Rflect does include AI-assisted features. For example:

• "Go Deeper" — AI Reflection Coach — On text questions, students have access to a "Go Deeper" function. After writing their reflection, students can ask the AI to analyze their response and nudge them toward deeper thinking, guiding them along the Gibbs Reflective Cycle. Go Deeper can also help students get started with a reflection if they feel stuck.
• Personal Learning Goals — Students are led through the process of setting learning goals, e.g. for the semester, that are concrete and personal to them. After writing their goals, they can ask for feedback from an AI coach on each one, helping them to make their goals more concrete or nudging them to explain how they mean to achieve them.
• Rflect TA — Your very own teaching assistant, combining pedagogical best practices, reflection frameworks, and your course context. You can use it to create your reflection timeline, review reflection topics, understand key insights from shared student reflections, get reports on student engagement and navigate the Rflect UI. It's like having a personal learning curator in your pocket. Learn more about use cases for the Rflect TA on our blog.

Our users' data privacy is important to us and we are doing our best to ensure a safe and pleasant experience for all. User data never leaves the EU, and Rflect only uses AI models hosted by AWS in the EU. No data is stored by the model hosting provider and Rflect never uses student data to train AI models. Students can opt out of AI features in the Settings page.

Our dedicated team of developers and learning curators are here to help. Send your question or report a bug (where possible with a screenshot) to: support@rflect.ch.

Rflect is available as a native app for iPhone, iPad, and Android, downloadable from the App Store and Google Play Store. Students can also access Rflect from any browser.

With the app installed, students can enable push notifications so they're alerted directly on their phone whenever a new reflection opens — more reliable than email for most students. The app is for the student side; lecturers manage their programs via the browser.