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Packback uses cookies to understand what pages are useful to our customers and make our site more effective. Questions? Contact us. More rigorous discussion: 2X more posts on Packback contain a source citation compared to the LMS, shown in multiple studies. More active threads: Threads on Packback received 1.3X more responses per question compared to LMS discussion in a recent study.Longer posts: Posts on Packback were shown to be longer on average than posts in LMS discussion in a recent study.More A’s and B’s, and fewer D’s, F’s, and W’s: Students on Packback showed statistically significant increases to positive grade outcomes when compared to students using the LMS for discussion in the same course. Improved student satisfaction: In Spring 2020, 91% of students responded positively when asked if they prefer Packback to LMS discussion.Instructors spend less time grading, and more time engaging: Average instructors on Packback spend just 15 minutes per week on Packback performing discussion management tasks.Instructors who try Packback, stay with Packback: 90% of professors who try Packback keep using Packback for their course in future semesters.Packback s solution is not just technology. Packback provides a research-backed pedagogy and implementation model, an easy-to-use platform, and dedicated support resources for instructors and students to ensure that every class gets consistent results. Packback’s discussion implementation pedagogy is based on seminal research in the fields of online discussion, mastery learning, and student motivation. My students love the autonomy they have over their work in the discussion; as a result, they have become empowered learners. Packback’s platform uses AI to scale instant 1-to-1 student feedback, automatically moderate the discussion community, and support grading for any size class. Grading discussion postings has become drastically less time consuming, which has always been a challenging process in the past. Technology alone is never a solution. Every instructor is paired with a dedicated member of the Packback team who ensures that Packback delivers on engagement goals for their course. The Packback software is great, but it might actually be the least interesting part to me. The most interesting part to me is the relationship I ve built with the people from the Packback team, who care to create better education. ~ Dr. Bryan McCarthy, Philosophy Instructor at the University of Pittsburgh-GreensburgBlending AI feedback with instructor feedback to deliver the best student outcomesWith Packback, instructors spend more time engaging with students and providing meaningful feedback, and less time managing and moderating the online discussion. Packback s “Digital TA” automatically reviews every post to ensure it meets community guidelines, sends instructors recommended top posts, assigns a Curiosity Score to each post, and more.Learn morePackback is secure, accessible, reliable, and able to be integrated with your Learning Management System.Packback adheres to FERPA requirements and uses PCI-compliant practices for checkout and billing. Packback s infrastructure is reliable and boasts over 99.9% uptime.Packback undergoes regular voluntary audits to ensure that our site aligns with ADA accessibility requirements. We strive to adhere to the AA level of the WCAG 2.0 guidelines.Packback is an IMS Global Alliance Partner and offers an LTI 1.2 integration that enables Single-Sign-On experiences for our partner schools.Join thousands of instructors who are championing inquiry-driven learning in their courses with PackbackOver 600,000 students have used Packback, with over 350,000 students using Packback in 2020 alone.17.85 million student discussion posts have been submitted on Packback, with over 9 million posts submitted in 2020 alone.Over 3,500 Instructors have used Packback with over 2,600 instructors using Packback in 2020 alone. Packback has not only made class discussion more exciting for my students, but for me as well. My students love the autonomy they have over their work in the discussion; as a result, they have become empowered learners. Rebecca Nieman San Diego Mesa College“Through Packback, I have found a way to popularize math and science for my students. I was blown away by just how many connections they were able to make that I would not have thought of.”Violeta Kovacev-Nikolic College of the CanyonsRead her story In essence, Packback finally allowed me to do what I’ve struggled to effectively to do for almost ten years of teaching: scale the Socratic style of teaching to massively large enrollment courses. Dr. Jose Vazquez University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

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