New Tech for Teaching
WSB instructors have access to two unique Canvas-based tools for fostering interaction among students: Harmonize Discussion Suite, and FeedbackFruit’s Group Member Evaluation Evaluation tool.
Please refer below for tool information – for additional questions or installation requests please reach out to Teaching & Learning.
WSB Tech Tools
Harmonize (Discussion)
Harmonize is a suite of collaboration and discussion tools that strengthen student engagement, and simplify an activity’s management and grading.
Included Features:
- Student Engagement And Outlier Insights.
- Multiple milestones/due-dates.
- Streamlined Grading via Canvas SpeedGrader.
- Canvas-based polling.
- Multimedia embedding (images, video, audio or text).
- Comment-based annotations and whiteboard.
FeedbackFruits (Group Member Evaluation)
FeedbackFruits allows students in Canvas to improve their group work experience, by structuring the process through which they can provide feedback on their peers’ skills.
Included Features:
- Easy to configure and use.
- Canvas groups, grade-book and rubrics integration.
- Feedback activity monitoring and outlier detection. Customizable grading criteria and rubrics.
- Robust configuration options (anonymity, self-assessment, AI feedback coach.
Additional Resources
Here are resources to help you design effective online discussions and group projects.
- Learn more about the Harmonize discussion tool
- Learn more about Feedback Fruits group member evaluation tool
- Steps for building and online asynchronous discussion (CTLM Instructional Resources KB)
- Group work: Designing and Planning (CTLM Instructional Resources KB)
