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Sep 7, 2023

Get Your Students Talking with Yellowdig

Table of Contents Building a Community of Inquiry Yellowdig is an online discussion platform designed to build community. Through it, you invite students to initiate discussion threads based on your guidelines, topics for posts and expectations for participation. Students connect course material to real-world experiences, prior knowledge and their own ways of thinking. Yellowdig awards…

Jan 10, 2023

Perusall: Interactive Reading Assignments

Perusall is a text-based social annotation/commenting/discussion tool. Instructors provide students with a text, and students use commenting to have an asynchronous discussion about the text. Depending on instructor settings, Perusall can auto-grade student work and provide instructors with analytics about how students are engaging with the text. “Texts” in Perusall are defined as articles, chapters,…