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ActiveClass Feedback Fruits Gradescope Kialo Poll Everywhere Yellowdig Engage ActiveClass School Year 2023-2024 01/2024 Assigning boards based on groups or sections  Assign discussion boards to different group and ...

Tools:  Discussion - Annotation - Chat - Peer Review - Math, Science, Polling - Course Admin Want to do something in your course but not sure which tool can help? Here are the key features of some commonly used tools that can help enhance the onlin...

Discussion Tools Comparison Chart For a great description of each discussion tool, visit the demo course site and click on the enroll button. Download the Accessible and Printable Version of the Discussion C...

We've curated tools from the Feedback Fruits suite to help create engaging and meaningful learning experiences with less work for you, from the setup to the grading.  Once an activity is setup, you can be high or low touch as you want. Feedback Fru...

Easily integrate Feedback Fruits into your a Canvas assignment.  Once integrated you can also take advantage of Feedback Fruit's grade pass back to the Canvas grade book. Step 1. Create a Canvas Assignment.  Step 2. Name the assignment...

Peer Review Group Member Evaluations Comprehension Interactive Video Editing a Feedback Fruits Assignment Configurable Grading - Add On Preview Assignment as Student Download Student Analytics Create Templates from ...

Ed Discussion is a threaded Q&A-style tool that is easy to use in your Canvas course site. If Ed Discussion has already been installed on your site, visit our Canvas Tools page links to guides, and tips and tricks. Info & Tour of Ed Discussi...

Once Ed Discussion has been installed on your Canvas course site, it will be visible in the Canvas left navigation.  Students will not have access to content until you activate it. Activation is quick - follow the steps below.  Ed Discussion...

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 ...

No installation required.  Yellowdig is now always available in your course site.  To begin using it, just enable it in your course navigation. Enable Yellowdig Yellowdig Board Setup Enable Yellowdig  in the Course Navigation Sele...

Basic How To Guides Advance Features & FAQs Share with your student the Yellowdig How to and Support Guides in the Student Pocket Guide.  Basic How To Guides Posting and Commenting Pinning a Post to Top Search...

ActiveClass is a social learning community-building discussion tool.  With ActiveAssignments create assignments, measure engagement, easily see individual student activity, and grade it. With ActiveFeed you and your students can inform, collaborat...

ActiveClass Activation & Setup ActiveClass Basic How To Guides Advance Features & FAQs Share with your students the ActiveClass How to and Support Guides in the Student Pocket Guide. Activation & Setup Create an Activ...

Feedback Fruits is a suite of peer review, self-assessment, and annotation tools that are easy to use in your Canvas course site.   Watch this 15-minute highlight reel to see how Feedback Fruits operates, in both student and instructor views. Fill...

ActiveClass is a topic-based graded discussions tool that must be configured individually by creating a new external tool Canvas assignment. Configure ActiveClass Assignments Setup ActiveClass Discussion Board ActiveClass Canvas As...

ActiveClass is a topic-based graded discussions tool that auto-aggregates all of an individual students' posts and comments for you to grade and provide feedback.  View Posts and Comments per student Grading in ActiveClass View Po...

Kialo is an argument mapping and debate site, specifically designed for classroom use. Its clear, visually compelling format makes it easy to follow the logical structure of a discussion and facilitates thoughtful collaboration. Kialo can be integra...

Kialo Activation Kialo Setup & How To Guides Share with your student the Kialo's How to and Support Guides in the Student Pocket Guide.  Activation  Signup for an account at http://kialo-edu.com/ (do not sign up at Kia...

Gather Study Lounge Best Practices Guide (Harvard DCE Pilot) Hello! Thank you for piloting the Gather Study Lounge. The Gather Study Lounge is a tool built into your course’s Canvas site that gives your students a space to meet outside of class ...

Poll Everywhere allows instructors to run polls at any time for class use. The web version has no built-in grading features and does not require students to log in via their HarvardKey to respond.  Harvard Poll Everywhere Account Creating P...

Gradescope helps streamline collecting and grading paper-based, digital, and code assignments and exams.   Students can scan paper assignments or upload documents and files.  Instructors give detailed assignment feedback via rubrics and gather a...

Perusall is a social annotation tool that allows students and instructors to collaboratively markup PDF documents, digital textbooks and web pages. Info & Tour of Perusall Request Perusall Canvas Integration Info & Tour of Perusall ...

Hello Harvard is a tool DCE built to provide self-service options for teaching staff to use when setting up their Canvas sites. Phase 1 of Hello Harvard, which is now available, provides an app store of DCE vetted and approved tools. Sel...