Separate Deadlines for Questions and Responses
Allow for separate deadlines for questions and responses. There is often a concern that people will wait until the last minute to ask questions and this could help alleviate that concern.
Comments: 10
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13 Aug, '21
Christa HeinThis would be helpful in preventing students from waiting until the last minute
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23 Aug, '21
J. ZeidelMany students would appreciate the extra prompt to post early, giving their peers time to respond to their curiosity feed.
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21 Oct, '21
Daniel MoldenThis might encourage students to scroll around more and figure out what discussions they want to be a part of. My experience with Packback is that, often, there are a good proportion of excellent questions that don’t have any responses because they come in about an hour before everything is due when most people have already responded. So these posts don’t get the attention they deserve. This feature would mean that the procrastinators get to have their questions be part of the discussion even if they still save their commenting till the last minute. And this also wouldn’t prevent the conscientious students from responding early if they wanted to.
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05 Apr, '22
Lisa ParrottI fully agree with this! My students are waiting until the last minute to post their questions and responses and as result questions with a lot of plagiarism are getting responses before they can be moderated. If I manipulate different due dates in my LMS Packback would still grade them as being on time, which would create more manual grading problems.
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08 Aug, '22
Daniel MitanIt makes sense to have the PackBack Questions due a couple of days prior to the Answer Deadline. The first person to post will not have any questions to answer. Students cannot fully engage with the assignment if others have not posted yet.
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08 Aug, '22
Jennifer HillmanThis is critical. My students have asked for this repeatedly, as well.
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26 Aug, '22
Gretchen EzakiYes! I have the question due 2 days before the response but can only give 1 due date currently.
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08 Dec, '22
ChaseMany of the professors that I work with would love this feature added to prevent last second questions!
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13 Jan, '23
Diane KutzThis is critical for me. I manually do this in my Canvas course and remind the students about it, but invariably they wait until the last day to submit questions and responses, and I have to manually reduce their grade since they missed my "canvas deadline" for the initial posting.
The reason I find it important to have an earlier due date for questions is that in our world of procrastination, most students wait until the due date to post anything, and that hinders the discussion, as no one has the time to read all the questions. This hinders learning and honestly makes this exercise just busy work. -
23 Feb, '23
Diane KutzPlease! I have questions due before the responses, and I have to manually adjust the imported grades to remove points if they miss the deadline for the question posting.