Both Harmonize and Perusall focus on engagement & community.
But what makes Harmonize a better solution?
Harmonize’s full suite of online discussion & collaboration tools provides students and instructors with everything they need to have vibrant online courses, including: image, video & PDF annotation, chat, polls, and Q&A. Content is structured naturally.
When we focus only on annotation, the basic PDF annotation features of Harmonize and Perusall are the same, as are the video annotation features. For PDFs, instructors can upload a PDF and students can comment on it by highlighting and replying to each other’s comments.
Harmonize focuses on a simple, streamlined ability to upload a PDF with minimal instructor set up needed.
Perusall has a some more advanced features that could warrant additional complexity, and it’s up to your use case to determine if those are worth the additional configuration overhead.
Those features include:
Our goal is to be as accurate as possible, so if you feel there is something we should add, remove, or change, please let us know!
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
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!
In our 30-minute call, you will:
Learn how Harmonize creates a more engaging and inclusive experience for students (and instructors!)
Share your goals, and we’ll discuss how Harmonize can help you reach them
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