About Yellowdig

Yellowdig is a social learning community-building platform that integrates in your Canvas course site.

To enable Yellowdig for your course, visit our Yellowdig Startup guide for directions.



Info & Tour of Yellowdig


Feature List

  • Modern User Interface
    • Social media-like interface
  • Analytics
    • Community Heath Dashboard to track participation for individual students and across all students
    • Network graph to visualize student interactions and identify level of engagement
  • Post and Comment
    • Display thumbnails of media and web links 
    • Attach files
    • Draw
    • Poll
    • Record video or audio
    • Anonymity for students (teaching staff can see student names)
    • Formulas 

Resources

Visit our Yellowdig help guides. You'll find links to guides, and tips and tricks.

Instructor support

Email: dce_instructionaltechnology@fas.harvard.edu
Web: teach.dce.harvard.edu/itg
Emergencies: call the help desk at 617-998-8571

Student support

Email: AcademicTechnology@dce.Harvard.edu
Phone: 617-998-8571