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.
Different Feedback for lower scores
Allow students who are lower achievers differently from the students who have high curiosity scores
Under consideration
Custom images for Each Community on the Instructor Home Page
As an Art Historian, I am a visual person. It would be helpful if there were options to customize the image (the glasses and paper in different colors) which ...
Under consideration
Allow Professors to assign a weight to Sources
Have the usage of sources be a part of their grade and allow professors to add weight to the sources so they have more control over what is being used and what that ...
Under consideration
Hide packback grades from students option
This option helps those who want to manually grade the questions or discussion.
Under consideration
Adding LMS ID in custom grade reports
I believe this would be a benefit to professors who want to have the LMS ID's automatically added on grade reports especially when they have large classes. It seems ...
Planned
Gradebook/Roster Page loading "view all" function
Currently, the grade book only allows a certain number of students per page. Please allow a "view all" option so that instructors can see all the students at once. ...
Under consideration
Make weekly insights available within the packback platform instead of in an email
The weekly insights are great but flood the inbox. I would love to see these same insights available in the platform, and in clickable format, especially for faculty ...
Planned
Students should be reminded not to answer their own questions in their description of their question
Tucked in one of the 4Cs on the instant feedback algorithm, could we add a bullet point to remind students not to answer their own question in the description? It can ...
Under consideration
Sort the communities by course name, date, and/or section.
When a professor has many communities, it can be confusing finding the right section. Can we sort them on the My Communities tab? It would be an add-on to separating ...
Under consideration
Add ability to require a minimum word count.
I've had this suggested a few times but haven't actually seen this added to this page yet so I wanted to be sure to put it out there. I think it would be incredibly ...
Under consideration
Add option for multiple numbered citations in a post
Please expand the citation functionality such that multiple citations (e.g., up to five) could be numbered and referenced in a post
Under consideration
Auto email for professor to flag low registration % in their community
Create an auto email for professors if their registration is low and cc the EMs. Here's the proposed logic:
- It's been 2 weeks after community start date but ...
Under consideration
Include day of the week on each post + participation report
Adding Monday, Tuesday, etc to each post so that it's easy to see where in the week the discussion is falling. The basic dates are hard to quickly track and students ...
Under consideration
Link grades/points in participation report to correlating posts for that week.
I've only had this suggested to me once but I think this would be an incredibly helpful addition to the platform. If professors/students were able to go through each ...
Under consideration
mp3 files
I teach music appreciation. I would like to be able to attach mp3 files to responses, feedback, point/counter point.
At present I am restricted to url links
Under consideration
Average and total points separate by questions and reponses
This might be too complicated for some, but I would love to see the average and total points calculated separately for questions and posts. Maybe customizing options ...
Under consideration
Flexible grading deadlines
Many of my students have flexible due dates as part of their accommodations for various accessibility reasons. I would like to be able to opt some students out of ...
Planned
Faculty and TA sparks should be unlimited
Faculty and TAs should have unlimited sparks. I was advised to use this function as a grading completion notation to keep track of what posts had been graded. ...
Under consideration
Add a "show all" button to student leader profiles
To have to click on "show more" for each student post is time wasting. There should be an option to click and expand all posts for a particular student using the ...
Under consideration
Add a checkbox to note graded discussions
While the Packback software can help with assessing quantity of course engagement, qualitative assessment occurs manually. It is quite onerous when you pull up a ...
Under consideration
Allow more features for hashtags
I am currently using hashtags for my students to track different types of questions. It would be nice to be able to filter by these hashtags and put hashtags in the ...
Under consideration
Ability to manually adjust participation report
Professor requested the ability to adjust participation report on Packback rather than the generated CSV report. This is to account for students with late work.
Planned
Require students to register with either their official school email or the email that was provided.
Combing through correct/incorrect email addresses can be very time consuming for professors and their experience managers. Often professors have trouble with grading ...
Under consideration
Updates to report downloaded
Combine the first and last name when the Participation sheet is downloaded - this is how it is required for both Blackboard and Canvas to upload into the gradebook ...
Under consideration
Combine all student submissions in one view for instructor reading
I would like a view that showed one one page all student submissions (questions and answers) for an assignment. Currently, I see the first lines of a student's ...
Under consideration
Show "Last Edit" timestamp
Students can edit posts after deadlines, but the timestamp on the post will show the time it was originally posted. This causes issue for deadlines and grade disputes ...
Under consideration
Edit Community Avatars on Home Page
All communities have the same default avatar (blue background, glasses and a notebook). It would be nice if we could customize those to make it easier to see which is ...
Under consideration
Video demos arranged by subject
I had a professor ask for me to send him recordings of demos in his discipline so he can review on his own. It's more of a marketing ask and would weaken the sale but ...
Under consideration
Printing on Packback
Professors would like to be able to easily print multiple questions and responses from Packback. They would like it to maintain its formatting when printing and also ...
Suggested by:
Anne Parayil - On behalf of 2 professors
(03 Jan, '20)
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Upvoted: 03 Jan, '20
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Comments: 0
Under consideration