Compare your favorite tools
With Harmonize, students gain a more cohesive, unified online course experience. Instructors spend less time training and more time teaching, using tools that share a user interface paradigm – all while institutions consolidate the high costs of using disparate tools.
Let’s see how Harmonize compares to other well-known tools.
FeedbackFruits
Focuses on assessment, feedback, and annotation to build engagement. It has a formal, rigid assignment structure.
Packback
Focuses on inquiry-based discussions and grading for participation.
Yellowdig
Focuses on discussion boards and provides capabilities related to online discussions.
Perusall
Focuses on social annotation to build engagement and community online.
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Hypothesis
Focuses on social annotation to build engagement and community online.
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Piazza
Focuses on Q&A style forums, and has major LMS integration and user interface differences.
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Poll Everywhere
Focuses on gathering live polling results in synchronous classrooms where students don’t use the LMS.
Online Discussions
Multimedia discussion tools help students contribute in ways that feel familiar and natural.
Polls
Assess comprehension and knowledge with polls that engage the whole class
Video, Image & PDF Annotations
Provide interactive feedback and help students engage more deeply with content
Q&A boards
Let students answer each others’ questions with public boards
Chat
Enable students and instructors to communicate privately or in groups
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
Plagiarism detection
Integrate Harmonize with your plagiarism software to auto-detect unoriginal content
Students want more ways to express themselves to peers — but adding dozens of new apps isn’t the solution. With Harmonize, you can encourage more frequent and thoughtful engagement with a complete set of modern online discussion & collaboration tools, directly integrated with your LMS.
Encourage more vibrant and frequent discussions by giving students multiple pathways to participate, including text, video, and audio posts. Use annotations to provide richer feedback and facilitate peer-to-peer learning. Instructors can also spark new conversations using chat, polls, and Q&A boards.
Eliminate tedious tasks and help instructors identify students who need support.
From plagiarism detection and LMS gradebook integration to autograding, Harmonize saves hours of valuable time for instructors. Use Engagement Insights to see which students are excelling — and which ones are struggling. Then, use 1:1 chat, polls, annotation and Q&A to actively engage students — all in one place.
“We decided to use Harmonize because we wanted to provide more collaborative and flexible learning tools for students. Plus, with Harmonize, we can see which students are progressing towards goals, which are actively participating, and which have dropped off in engagement. These kinds of insights help empower our instructors to trust and take action on their gut-feelings about which students are in trouble.”
You can integrate Harmonize with any major LMS — meaning students and instructors will only need to remember one LMS login to access every communication tool. Plus, Harmonize feels so familiar to instructors and students that there’s virtually no learning curve.
If you use plagiarism detection tools like Turnitin or Unicheck,
Harmonize integration is seamless and easy to set up.
“Harmonize gave our faculty all the extra things that they couldn’t do with previous tools and that made all the difference for student engagement. Better integrations, easier grading, rich multimedia and video discussions got both our instructor and students more engaged across the board.”
