What makes world class engagement tools even better? Layering in AI to support sound pedagogy for more engaging online activities, real time coaching for promoting self assessment, more equitable grading and catching engagement issues before they become retention issues.
Harmonize coaches ChatGPT on the best pedagogy & interaction strategies for discussion and assignment prompts for each course level using Bloom’s Taxonomy. Now add your subject matter expertise, and with just a click of a button, you could have more engaging discussion prompts and assignments — across all of your courses — which result in stronger student participation and deeper online learning with very little time investment. Read More
Based on the specifics of your prompt, ChatGPT in Harmonize will generate 4 focus areas for success and, optionally, turn that into a grading rubric for you with 1 additional click and make it available for grading immediately. These customized focuses make it easy to understand for both instructors and students so student success and objective grading is easier and saves a TON of time vs building rubrics manually. Read more
Not every student knows how to read a rubric and not every student gets the work right the first time, but there are times we want them to try and try again. With our new rubric coach, 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! 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.
