Use Harmonize to make discussions accessible to diverse learners and help all students overcome feelings of isolation and grow.
Give students multiple ways to engage with content and one another. With rich, fully accessible multimedia tools for adding content and collaborating, as well as social annotations for PDF, Video and Image critique, Harmonize ensures that there’s a way for students of all abilities to be part of the conversation.
Not every student comes to the activity from the same place, so we provide real time feedback to students based on the instructor’s rubric so they can have multiple attempts at self improvement and growth to make sure they’re participating fully in the activity.
Our content editor has a heavy focus on accessibility. We auto caption videos and provide editing capabilities that let everyone generate accessible content. We also handle the layout on multiple devices, optimized for whatever bandwidth/connectivity/device the students have so they don’t get left behind.
Rich multimedia
Students can add videos, images, and audio in addition to text posts. These options give everyone a way to contribute to discussions.
Annotations
Help students and instructors share feedback using text, images or video. Annotations help students engage more deeply with course material.
Auto-captioning
Ensure every student can understand video content uploaded to Harmonize. Auto-captioning makes videos accessible to all students.
Anonymous posting
Many students may feel nervous contributing to public discussions. Anonymous posts allow them to contribute without providing their names.
Groups
Assign students to smaller groups where discussions might feel more natural. Groups help many otherwise reluctant students to feel comfortable sharing ideas.
Peer facilitation
Put students in control of discussions. Student facilitation promotes peer-to-peer learning and encourages everyone to engage with one another.
Social annotation
Enable students to dynamically share ideas about course material. Social annotations let them add their thoughts directly to a piece of content.
Polls
Quickly gauge students’ opinions, comprehension, and engagement with course content with polls that any student can respond to, anonymously.
We have our instructors use course Q&A, polls, and enable chat portals for our students. It’s giving online learners a chance to be seen and heard. It’s a more inclusive approach to communication, which is creating an online experience more equitable to the classroom experience.
