Use Harmonize to encourage more frequent and thoughtful engagement in your courses: Discussion Boards, Assignments, Peer Review, Annotated Readings and more.
We support all expression types with a series of tools from simple multimedia, auto-captioned videos recorded directly from the student’s browser, screensharing and beyond. We also lay out the content in a way that’s easier to find and consume so you don’t end up with a CVS receipt length of text facing the student who is trying to engage. As a result, it’s easy for students to discover and author meaningful content per the instructor’s expectations and for instructors to monitor student engagement.
Milestones, or multiple due dates, help students remember deadlines and contribute to discussions now instead of at the last minute. Use them to set clear expectations, remind students of approaching due dates, and pull them back into the conversation. We also use AI to help the instructor write a good activity description with clear expectations and we use AI to build a rubric so students know EXACTLY what is expected of them. Harmonize offers real time AI coaching to the students on their compliance with the instructor’s rubric to make sure they’re engaging properly. The end result is timely and complete engagement by students.
Encourage more vibrant and frequent discussions by giving every student a pathway to participation. Use annotations to provide richer feedback and facilitate peer-to-peer learning. Instructors can also spark new conversations using chat, polls, social annotations in PDFS and Q&A boards. It’s no longer just about discussions when it comes to student engagement.
ChatGPT Integration
We coach ChatGPT to help instructors take their subject matter expertise and back it with a pedagogically sound prompt and rubric.
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, screenshare 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.
Annotations
Adding annotations to PDFs, video and images 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.
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.
My class introduction discussion this past spring had the most interaction and engagement that I’ve seen in my 20 years of teaching online!
