We are excited to share that Central Community College is participating in a SP23 pilot with Harmonize, a discussion & collaboration tool that integrates with Canvas. The tool promotes improved student engagement in online discussions. A group of about 15 CCC faculty have committed to the pilot

If you use Harmonize in your course you can:

Encourage more frequent and thoughtful participation by adding multiple due dates to assignments.
Make it easier for students to engage in discussions by using a more modern and intuitive interface similar to the social media apps.
Facilitate richer and more inclusive discussions that incorporate images, video, and annotations.
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 through the Harmonize integration with Turnitin.

Harmonize is easy-to-use and requires minimal set-up, so most instructors are able to get it set up and running in their course in under 30 minutes.

Here are several Harmonize resources:

Getting Started with Harmonize - Canvas [information for using Harmonize within the Canvas LMS]
Harmonize Training & Webinar Series (Spring 2023) [includes information for training sessions focused on Harmonize 101 to 104]
Harmonize Support Portal with resource guides and how-to videos.

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