How can we Improve Packback Questions?

Packback's product team wants to hear your suggestions about how we can make Packback Questions more useful, friendly, and curiosity-inspiring!

Here's what each of the statuses below mean:

Under Consideration: We are aware of this suggestion and agree that it could be valuable, but are still gathering data.
Planned: This suggestion is in our product backlog and is planned for release in the next 3-6 months.
Not Planned: Based on our product purpose and current team resources, we do not expect this suggestion to be worked on in the next 6 months.
Done: This improvement is now live in Packback Questions!

Please note: This list does not reflect Packback's full roadmap; the list below is limited to improvements and iteration on existing features in the Packback Questions platform. Large-scale features are not included here.

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Separate Deadlines for Questions and Responses

Suggested by: Rakeeta Hampton (24 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 08 Sep • Comments: 7

Under consideration

Abilty to organize questions by modules (or chapters/units), not purely by time

Suggested by: Katharine Rumrill-Teece (09 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 9

Planned General User Experience

Reminder notification to students to complete their posts before the deadline if they haven't yet

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (21 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 26 Aug • Comments: 3

Under consideration Emails & Notifications

Support two different deadline times on the Automated Gradebook when there is >1 deadline per week.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 26 Aug • Comments: 2

Under consideration Professor Tools

Allow instructors to easily transfer instructor-selected questions from one course to the next.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (21 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 1

Planned Professor Tools

Allowing professors to have access to which posts were moderated

Suggested by: Grace (24 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 9

Under consideration

Allow instructors to require specific formatting for Citations

Suggested by: Stanislav Korotchenko (25 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 21 Jan • Comments: 3

Under consideration Discussion Features

Introduce "Topic" tagging on posts to make it possible to navigate the main feed by topic.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration General User Experience

Indicate which students have had Featured Posts

Suggested by: Jaclyn Jensen (19 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: 22 Oct, '21 • Comments: 3

Under consideration

Introduce a Packback native application for iphone / android.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 26 Aug • Comments: 2

Not planned

Add support for multiple citations with a separate field for each citation.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 1

Planned Discussion Features

Add a word cloud that shows the key terms most commonly used in questions.

Suggested by: Kimberly Hill (09 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Rework the Learner Leaderboard to make it motivating for all students

Suggested by: Packback Suggestion (09 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 4

Under consideration Leaderboard & Gamification

Allow multiple pinned posts

Suggested by: Sara Pasquinelli (13 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 26 Aug • Comments: 2

Not planned

Update the Learner Leaderboard to reset rankings weekly (by default).

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration Leaderboard & Gamification

Add an option to leave private "Praise" Custom Feedback.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 07 Apr • Comments: 0

Under consideration Professor Tools

Fully custom deadline time

Suggested by: Cody Buczkowski (14 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 13 Aug, '21 • Comments: 3

Not planned

Do not include instructor in the Packback Participation reports

Suggested by: Molly Martin (04 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 1

Under consideration Professor Tools

Allow users to merge 2 accounts and/or connect multiple school emails to the same account.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 02 Oct, '21 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Account Settings

Hiding the Learner Leaderboard from students

Suggested by: Kathryn Stegeman (03 Dec, '20) • Upvoted: 24 May • Comments: 2

Under consideration

Option to schedule the post of an instructor question such that it auto-posts at a given time/date

Suggested by: Michael Black (03 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 07 Apr • Comments: 0

Done

Allow responses to supporting and counter points

Suggested by: Lacy Ferrell (04 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 26 Apr • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Ability to give Packback assignments a name/title

Suggested by: Susie O'Brien (04 Mar, '21) • Upvoted: 26 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Freeze header row on the Participation Report

Suggested by: Curt Burgess (16 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 01 Oct, '21 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Professor Tools

Allow support for direct uploading of videos and images into posts (Embedding already supported).

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 25 Mar, '21 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Discussion Features

Provide option to require students to post before seeing other posts for the week

Suggested by: Rita Mitra (14 Apr, '21) • Upvoted: 26 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Allow me to generate a report on my own, based on my own parameters

Suggested by: Paul HIllman (21 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Packback Questions Should support Multi-factor Auth

Suggested by: Craig Booth (30 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 07 Jun, '21 • Comments: 3

Under consideration Account Settings

Manually Override Gradebook

Suggested by: Blair (21 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 01 Oct, '21 • Comments: 1

Done

Automated reference checker

Suggested by: Stan K (27 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 30 Nov, '20 • Comments: 1

Under consideration

View the entirety of each student's threads (question and replies) on one scrollable page.

Suggested by: Kim Hammett (14 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 26 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Allow Instructors to choose when the Curious Reader's Digest is sent out.

Suggested by: Christa Hein (02 Apr, '21) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Validate citations upon posting

Suggested by: Jonathan Phares (05 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Apr, '21 • Comments: 0

Planned

Add filter "unread."

Suggested by: Packback Professor Suggestion (23 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Improve the experience of adding "Seeded" posts to communities.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 03 Feb • Comments: 0

Planned Professor Tools

Organize discussions by topic rather than interval

Suggested by: Scott L. Hunsaker (24 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 21 Dec, '21 • Comments: 3

Under consideration

Sliding scale for CP

Suggested by: Daniel Green (15 Feb) • Upvoted: 02 Jul • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Add Additional Stats to the Custom Date Range Report

Suggested by: Sam Ehrlich (28 Apr, '21) • Upvoted: 04 May, '21 • Comments: 1

Under consideration

One-Page Drop-Down of "View Post" Feature

Suggested by: Rita Mitra (10 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 02 Dec, '21 • Comments: 1

Planned

Expand/collapse format for discussions

Suggested by: Lucia Summers (26 May, '20) • Upvoted: 10 Dec, '21 • Comments: 1

Planned

Provide a method to know when a moderated post has been edited and reposted.

Suggested by: Lynn (26 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Auto-moderate posts containing gibberish

Suggested by: Janice (07 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 19 Sep • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Display alert for post that was previously moderated for course team

Suggested by: Anne Olson (15 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Create penality for students who plagiarize multiple times in 1 term

Suggested by: Anne Olson (26 Jan, '21) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Add "response to professor's question" option in the gradebook

Suggested by: Albert Belllera (21 Jan, '21) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Allow for "make up" work

Suggested by: Lindsay Tan (24 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 10 Dec, '21 • Comments: 0

Planned

Alert student before post submission that their post doesn't meet the minimum Curiosity Score

Suggested by: Molly Skjei (18 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Aug • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Allow the deleting of a Packback Avatar from an account, so users can return to the default avatar.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 24 Sep, '20 • Comments: 0

Done Account Settings

Allow for download of participation report to see CS for each individual post by student

Suggested by: Kelsey (19 Apr, '21) • Upvoted: 28 Apr, '21 • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Identify Grading Periods when students post

Suggested by: Anne Quackenbush (23 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 22 Mar, '21 • Comments: 1

Planned