Online Discussion & Collaboration Tools

A bigger toolset yields better results & easier content discovery.

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.

Spark meaningful, ongoing
conversations with Milestones.

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.

Better, deeper integrations.

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:

LMS gradebook integration
Auto-grading for student participation
Integrations with Ouriginal, Turnitin and Unicheck to automatically check every post for originality

Multimedia Q&A promotes engagement

Harmonize directly supports uploading videos or recording them with your phone/webcam to be able to get video content seamlessly into your questions or your answers. Harmonize also supports annotation of videos and images to allow enhanced answering of questions with this type of content. Providing students a variety of ways to express themselves in Q&A promotes participation.

Harmonize's Ultimate Online Collaboration Toolkit

Rich multimedia

Help students express themselves by posting images, video, audio, or text

Milestones

Help students see what’s expected of them, and when, so they make substantive, on-time contributions

Streamlined grading

Save time for instructors with LMS gradebook integration and autograding

Student facilitation

Give students control of discussions with tools that encourage them to contribute.

Reactions & tagging

Improve participation with tools that bring everybody into the conversation

Image, Video & PDF Annotations

Provide interactive feedback and help students engage more deeply with content

Plagiarism detection

Integrate Harmonize with your plagiarism software to auto-detect unoriginal content

Chat

Enable students and instructors to communicate privately or in groups

Polls

Assess comprehension and knowledge with polls that engage the whole class

Q&A boards

Let students answer each others’ questions with public boards

Harmonize integrates
with the tools you use today

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.

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