New Tech for Teaching
Overview
This semester, WSB instructors have access to two unique Canvas-based tools for fostering interaction among students: The 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 & Assessment.
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 is a group-based evaluation tool supporting both formative and summative activities:
It 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.
- Steps for building and online asynchronous discussion (CTLM Instructional Resources KB)
- Group work: Designing and Planning (CTLM Instructional Resources KB)