Both Harmonize and Piazza focus on increasing student participation.
But what makes Harmonize a better solution?
Harmonize integrates more cleanly into your LMS with less setup and has a familiar user interface, making it easier to learn.
Harmonize’s full suite of online discussion & collaboration tools provides students and instructors with everything they need to have vibrant course discussions, including: image, video & PDF annotation, chat, polls, and Q&A. Content is structured naturally.
Thought subjective, the Harmonize interface is cleaner and more modern for editing content than Piazza. It also has a seamless integration with the LMS. Piazza requires students to take specific, time-consuming steps to enter information and create a Piazza account — making it difficult to get to the course content and work.
Piazza has no tool to prompt or remind students multiple times to make contributions.
With Harmonize, instructors can use multiple due dates or Milestones to help students remember deadlines and regularly contribute to discussions. You can use them in conjunction with notifications to set clear expectations, remind students of approaching due dates, and pull them back into the conversation — all of which promote ongoing engagement.
Harmonize allows you to more deeply integrate your different areas for questions into your LMS’s module layout. For example: Want questions around week 1 only? Put that in your week 1 module. Want a specific live Q+A for one of your class sessions, you can put that in the week where it happens. Piazza handles this via an internal navigation that is custom to Piazza so it may be difficult for students and instructors to both find and make sure they’re submitting their questions in the correct place.
In Harmonize, you also have time-saving functionality, including:
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Help students express themselves by posting images, video, audio, or text
Help students see what’s expected of them, and when, so they make substantive, on-time contributions
Save time for instructors with LMS gradebook integration and autograding
Give students control of discussions with tools that encourage them to contribute.
Improve participation with tools that bring everybody into the conversation
Provide interactive feedback and help students engage more deeply with content
Integrate Harmonize with your plagiarism software to auto-detect unoriginal content
Enable students and instructors to communicate privately or in groups
Assess comprehension and knowledge with polls that engage the whole class
Let students answer each others’ questions with public boards
Use Harmonize with any major LMS. Harmonize feels so familiar to instructors and students that there’s virtually no learning curve.
It’s simple to get started — Harmonize plugs right in!
To ensure academic integrity, Harmonize then integrates with the major plagiarism detection services, like Turnitin or Unicheck, to ensure that the students’ work is authentic.
Learn how our online discussion and collaboration tools can elevate the learning experience at your institution.
Institutions of all sizes use Harmonize to improve student engagement, collaboration, and inclusivity in their online courses — all while saving instructors time. Harmonize seamlessly integrates with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and D2L Brightspace to enrich discussions within already existing platforms. See it for yourself in a personalized demo!
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