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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Track which students have (and have not) received Custom Feedback so far in the term.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 14 Jun • Comments: 4

Planned Professor Tools

When giving Custom Feedback, I want to also see the post I'm giving feedback to at the same time.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 02 Oct • Comments: 18

Planned Professor Tools

Make it possible to upload students into 'Small Groups', instead of students selecting their group.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 11 Oct • Comments: 3

Planned Professor Tools

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

Suggested by: Katharine Rumrill-Teece (09 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 06 Oct • Comments: 8

Under consideration 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: 06 Oct • Comments: 2

Under consideration Emails & Notifications

Add a "date range" filter for filtering the main feed.

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

Under consideration General User Experience

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: 06 Oct • Comments: 2

Under consideration Professor Tools

Don't reload the page (and don't scroll the instructor to top of page) after giving Custom Feedback.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 01 Oct • Comments: 2

Planned Professor Tools

Separate Deadlines for Questions and Responses

Suggested by: Rakeeta Hampton (24 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 29 Sep • Comments: 2

Under consideration

Add a "Preview Post" option, so I can expand a discussion without leaving the feed.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 01 Oct • Comments: 2

Planned General User Experience

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

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (21 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 01 Oct • Comments: 1

Planned Professor Tools

Allow instructors/TAs to edit or delete "Custom Feedback" they left on a post.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 11 May • Comments: 1

Planned Professor Tools

Indicate which students have had Featured Posts

Suggested by: Jaclyn Jensen (19 Feb, '20) • Upvoted: 05 Oct • Comments: 2

Under consideration

Allow instructors to require specific formatting for Citations

Suggested by: Stanislav Korotchenko (25 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 05 Oct • Comments: 1

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: 02 Oct • Comments: 0

Under consideration General User Experience

Introduce an email preferences system to allow users to choose which emails they want to receive.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 11 May • Comments: 1

Done Emails & Notifications

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

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 06 Oct • Comments: 0

Planned Discussion Features

Introduce a Packback native application for iphone / android.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 28 Apr • Comments: 1

Not planned

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

Suggested by: Kimberly Hill (09 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 05 Oct • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Allowing professors to have access to which posts were moderated

Suggested by: Grace (24 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 14 Oct • Comments: 5

Under consideration

Fully custom deadline time

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

Not planned

Allow Professors to schedule when their drafts are posted.

Suggested by: Rakeeta Hampton (08 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 13 Aug • Comments: 2

Planned

Allow multiple pinned posts

Suggested by: Sara Pasquinelli (13 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 06 Oct • Comments: 2

Not planned

As an authorized Instructor or TA, I want the ability to edit custom feedback on student posts.

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 18 Sep, '20 • Comments: 0

Planned 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 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Account Settings

Do not include instructor in the Packback Participation reports

Suggested by: Molly Martin (04 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 01 Oct • Comments: 1

Under consideration Professor Tools

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

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 01 Oct • 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: 18 Feb • Comments: 0

Under consideration Professor Tools

Prompt students if their curiosity score is below a community's minimum after they click publish.

Suggested by: Cody Buczkowski (20 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 06 Oct • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Rework the Learner Leaderboard to make it motivating for all students

Suggested by: Packback Suggestion (09 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 30 Nov, '20 • Comments: 3

Under consideration Leaderboard & Gamification

Allow responses to supporting and counter points

Suggested by: Lacy Ferrell (04 Mar, '20) • Upvoted: 06 Oct • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Freeze header row on the Participation Report

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

Under consideration Discussion Features

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: 27 Apr • Comments: 0

Under consideration

Packback Questions Should support Multi-factor Auth

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

Under consideration Account Settings

Automated reference checker

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

Under consideration

Validate citations upon posting

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

Under consideration

Manually Override Gradebook

Suggested by: Blair (21 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 01 Oct • Comments: 0

Planned

Add Additional Stats to the Custom Date Range Report

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

Under consideration

Ability to give Packback assignments a name/title

Suggested by: Susie O'Brien (04 Mar) • Upvoted: 22 Mar • Comments: 0

Under consideration

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

Suggested by: Product Design at Packback (14 Nov, '19) • Upvoted: 11 Nov, '20 • Comments: 0

Planned Professor Tools

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

Planned Account Settings

Organize discussions by topic rather than interval

Suggested by: Scott L. Hunsaker (24 Jan, '20) • Upvoted: 26 Oct, '20 • Comments: 2

Under consideration

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

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

Under consideration

Identify Grading Periods when students post

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

Planned

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

Suggested by: Rita Mitra (10 Feb) • Upvoted: 10 Feb • Comments: 1

Planned

"Lock mode" for small groups where students are unable to change section after assigned

Suggested by: Anne Olson (25 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: 13 Nov, '20 • Comments: 1

Under consideration

Expand/collapse format for discussions

Suggested by: Lucia Summers (26 May, '20) • Upvoted: 25 Mar • Comments: 1

Planned

Display alert for post that was previously moderated for course team

Suggested by: Anne Olson (15 Sep) • Upvoted: 07 Oct • Comments: 0

Under consideration

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

Suggested by: Rita Mitra (14 Apr) • Upvoted: 28 Apr • Comments: 0

Under consideration