Your students might start to wonder if you’re omniscient…
The Packback platform provides a suite of tools to help educators connect meaningfully with every single student in any size course, easily.
Every feature on Packback is designed with scale in mind. Packback is used in classes as large as 2,500 students and as small as 10 students, and is designed to make any size class easier to manage and support every student.
Packback Educator-to-Student Engagement Features
Discussion Polls
Engage your class with polls on Packback. Use polls as a pulse check, knowledge check, or to guide deeper discussions.
Insights Dashboard
Easily track individual students’ growth and overall class progress, and easily turn insights into thoughtful interventions.
Match & Message
Message students who meet specific participation criteria to give personalized coaching at scale in any size class.
Public Praise & Private Coaching
Packback allows educators to easily leave public “Praise” on student discussion posts to help the entire class learn what that student did well.
Discussion Polls
Host engaging in-class and out-of-class debates with Discussion Polls
Use discussion polls to engage students both during class and outside of class.
Post structured, asynchronous polls with Homework Polls. Host engaging in-class debates and discussions with In-Class Polls.
Flexible options enable you to limit poll replies before it is “active” or after it is “closed”.
▶️ Video: How Dr. Phil Mixter Uses Discussion Polls to Enrich Class Discussion
Instructor Insights Dashboard
Turn your community data into actionable insights with the Instructor Insights Dashboard
Within the Instructor Insights Dashboard, educators can trends in their overall course’s participation and get detailed insights about individual students in their class, combined with the ability to reach out to those students at scale through Match & Message.
Unlike many data visualization tools that just show statistics, every metric in the Insights Dashboard is easily actionable to drive thoughtful interventions that help change and improve student and course performance.
▶️ Video: How Dr. Phil Mixter Checks in With Students Using the Insights Dashboard
Match & Message
Scale meaningful 1-to-1 instructor interactions with Match & Message
With Match & Message, educators can find students whose participation meets specific criteria, and then compose an email to all of those students at once.
Instructors are able to find and message students who…
• Haven’t yet participated
• Didn’t yet meet full requirements
• Were featured on the leaderboard
• Haven’t yet received instructor feedback
• Have not started / finished Deep Dives draft
▶️ Video: How Keith Hollowell Uses Match & Message to Connect with His Class
Public Praise & Private Coaching
Allow your feedback to benefit every student, not just the student who receives it.
Leave public “Praise” on a student’s post, to allow your feedback to be visible to the entire class and use it as a teachable moment to demonstrate what that student did well. “Pin” that post to stick it to the top of your discussion assignments to ensure that your class sees it.
If you see a student needs specific help, you can easily leave private “Coaching” on any post, which notifies them privately of your feedback.
Real Educator Stories: Dr. Hollowell
Learn how Dr. Keith Hollowell uses the Packback platform to scale his reach and impact in his classes, and build powerful connections with his students.
He heavily uses the “Discussion Polls” feature to guide discussion and gauge student understanding, and help determine when he needs to go deeper on a topic.
Schedule a demo of the Packback Platform
Schedule a 1:1 demo with a Packback team member to see the Packback Platform through a personalized walk-through by video call.
Or if you prefer, you can create an account on Packback to explore the platform.