Disadvantaged or underrepresented college students often struggle to succeed because they don’t have the resources, haven’t had the experience and are afraid to ask for help.
Research shows that these students who need our help the most are least likely to ask for help of their instructor, reach out for writing help or be able to self assess how they’re doing. So let’s do this:
Let them express themselves in multimodal ways to avoid writing stress and support UDL.
Lower the barrier to help with real time AI coaching.
Help instructors monitor for engagement problems before the grades fall.
Let’s make your LMS look like the internet students are comfortable in and use AI to give the instructor and students the support they need!
Harmonize has been working for years to make screenshare, video, imagery and other expression types into the LMS in an accessible way. It’s key that it is dead simple for students to participate how they wish without causing support load for the instructor due to bad technology.
Harmonize coaches ChatGPT on the best pedagogy for activities using Bloom’s Taxonomy so instructors can easily build multimodal activities that allow all expression types to be valid. They just add their subject matter expertise, and with just a click of a button, you could have equitable and more engaging activities that allow students to do more than just write to express themselves.
With another click of a button, the instructor is recording video and screensharing so students can consume AND respond to the activity in the way best suited to them.
Setting clear expectations for students is SO very key to success. Once again, we’ll use AI to help the instructor lay out clear areas for success for their students and make it available for grading immediately so we have more equity in the grading process. These customized rubrics make it easy to understand for both instructors and students so student success and objective grading are easier and we save a TON of time in the process. Read more
Not every student knows how to read a rubric, not every student gets the work right the first time, and the most disadvanted students are the least likely to ask for help. With our AI coach based on the instructor’s rubric, students will be given real-time feedback with a simple rating of how they’re performing on each rubric criteria so they can self assess possible improvements and keep trying and growing! Crushed it the first time, good on you! Needed 5 tries, glad we could help you get there! Let’s make asking for help quick and painless. Read More
As an instructor, you don’t have the time to monitor for every single student who has gone silent or is not quite on top of engaging with their peers. So we monitor for behaviors we’ve correlated with retention in the class so we can give you engagement insights at a glance so you can reach out early to pull them into the discussion.
ChatGPT Integration
We coached ChatGPT to help instructors take their subject matter expertise and back it with a pedagogically sound prompts and rubrics!
Milestones
Lend structure to your course experience. Milestones help students see what’s expected of them, and when, so they make substantive, on-time contributions.
Rich multimedia
Why should students only be able to post text? Harmonize supports video, images, audio, and embedded URLs, so students can finally express themselves.
Q&A
Let students answer each others’ questions. Leave Q&A boards up all term to avoid repeated questions and help students share information in one place.
PDF, Image & Video Annotations
Adding annotations to content promotes peer-to-peer learning, richer instructor feedback, and deeper engagement with course material.
Tagging
Pull students into the conversation by tagging them directly. Students and instructors have the ability to tag anybody in the class.
Notifications
Keep students on task and help them meet deadlines with notifications. Add a custom notification for the whole class or individual students.
Chat
Using Harmonize Chat, instructors and students can communicate in real time. It’s easy for students to see which classmates are online and begin a new chat.
Polls
Use polls to gauge understanding, assess students, or review content. You can even use a poll to take attendance. Run a poll on its own or add it to any discussion.
Reactions
Students can use emojis to respond to their classmates. Reactions lower the barrier to responding to peers and help more students contribute.
