We’re excited to share that instructors at UMass Dartmouth will be able to use Harmonize, a discussion & collaboration tool that integrates with Canvas, to improve student engagement in your online discussions while saving you time in grading and managing your classroom!
If you’d prefer a video, you can hear from other instructors and watch a quick introduction about Harmonize:
If you use Harmonize in your course you can:
- Use ChatGPT to help write a good discussion prompt and build a rubric
- Encourage more frequent and thoughtful participation by adding multiple due dates to assignments.
- Enable auto-grading for your low-stakes discussion forums to save time grading.
- Make it easier for students to engage in discussions by using a more modern and intuitive interface that is similar to the social media apps they’re used to.
- Streamline grading with dashboards that show student activity, auto-grading for student participation, and the ability to automatically pass grades/feedback back to Canvas.
- Automatically check every post for plagiarism and AI writing through Harmonize’s integration with Turnitin.
Guides for Instructors:
Try an interactive demo of Harmonize!
Do you need assistance with…
- Creating a graded discussion in Canvas?
- Creating an assignment?
- Editing your Harmonize discussion?
- Using Harmonize Brainstorm to create a discussion prompt?
- Setting milestones, multiple due dates, and auto-grading?
- Settings for plagiarism and AI detection, groups, or student facilitators?
Visit Harmonize Guides for Instructors for video and PDF tutorials.
Enable AI Coaching for Students!
harmonize’s goal with AI coaching was to provide when the instructor permits it, a mechanism for students to receive real-time feedback on their work before or after they publish it so they can have as many retry attempts as they wish to improve their work.
We don’t want to tell the students what is wrong with the work, we want to create a stop-and-think moment for them to self-assess their work using the instructor’s rubric. We’re accomplishing this by showing them an indicator of how their work measures up against the rubric with simple icons and trend lines.
- Instructor Walker Through of the Students’ Rubric Coach
- AI Feedback for Students – Real-time guidance based on the rubric
Guides for Students:
- New to Harmonize? Start Here!
- What is Harmonize?
- How do I get started?
- How do I participate in Harmonize discussions?
- How do I view my discussion activity and grades?
Visit Harmonize Guides for Students for video and PDF tutorials.
Do you also need assistance with…
Harmonize is easy to use and requires minimal set-up, so most instructors can get it up and running in their course in under 15 minutes. Here are several resources that can help you get started when you begin to teach in Canvas:
- A 3-minute instruction set to get you started.
- Harmonize Training & Webinar Series for more in-depth live and on-demand training.
- Harmonize the Support Portal with resource guides and how-to videos.
If you have any questions, you can contact Instructional Development.