Peer Review shouldn’t feel like herding cats
Instructors love peer review—but managing it is a headache so they often avoid it.
Harmonize solves that:
Just-in-time, automated review assignment that isn’t disrupted by late or missing submissions
Multiple-deadlines for assignment vs reviews keeps students on track
Auto-grading and better reporting keep the instructor focused on the learning
Continue the Conversation by placing the review tools within Harmonize’s famous discussions
Painless instructor setup and grading, true multimodal engagement for students and AI coaching for better work. Take your peer review to the next level!
Our just-in-time review assignments take the stress out of managing late or missing submissions by dynamically assigning reviewers at the optimal moment—ensuring fairness and full participation. With Harmonize’s multiple due dates, instructors can clearly define separate deadlines for initial submissions and peer reviews, keeping students on track without confusion. Integrated grading tools streamline assessment, and instructors can even opt for auto-grading based on completion, saving time and reducing manual tracking.
Harmonize has been building multimodal conversation tools for almost a decade now and all of that power is now available within your peer review process. That helps expand peer review as an option to presentations, videos, imager and more. Peer review, no longer just for writing classes!
Anxiety and weak first drafts often undermine peer review. That’s why Harmonize puts AI coaching at the start of the process—so students get early, rubric-based feedback and can submit their best work with more confidence.
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.
