Class Discussions Using PackBack

What is PackBack?

PackBack is an online curiosity community where you can be fearlessly curious and ask BIG questions about how your course topics relate to your everyday life. This tool is used to promote inquiry-driven discussions online and helps to facilitate meaningful and thought-provoking dialogue between you and your student peers. PackBack not only helps create meaningful discussions, but it also helps you hone your skills in question asking, writing, and critical debate.

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PackBack and This Course

For a brief introduction to Packback Questions, as well as how and why we are using it in class, please review the slides below .

PackBacks's Discussion Tips

You may be curious as to how you should craft your discussion questions and responses when using PackBack. The "Packback Questions Community Guidelines" does a great job explaining how you should approach creating discussion questions and responses if you wish to score well via the PackBack tool. The guidelines also discuss what should NOT be included in discussions and describes the "flagging" feature.

How to Register on Packback

Our class is using a tool integration to access Packback and to sync with our LMS (Canvas) to allow you to sign in with a single click.

Navigate into our class on Canvas
In the navigation bar, you will see a link for Packback Questions. Click it, and you will automatically have an account created and be linked to the checkout page for our class community.
Complete checkout, and you will be directed to our course community on Packback where you can begin posting.
Please Note: You will also likely receive a welcome email from Packback with instructions on how to set up your account. You can register using either method and will be directed to the same community!

If you are having trouble with registering via Canvas:

You can join our course in Packback manually, by searching for our Community Lookup Key (below) in the Packback “Join Communities” module after signing up directly on Packback.co.

Please note, the following Community Lookup Key is only for locating the community; it is NOT a coupon code or access code.

Community Lookup Key: [INSERT LOOKUP KEY HERE (Can be found in the right-hand sidebar of your community, in “Professor Tools”)]

How to Get Help from the Packback Team:

If you have ANY questions or concerns regarding Packback throughout the semester, please contact the customer support team at holla@packback.co!

Note: It takes 24 hours for the Packback team to moderate a post and send a coaching email. In order to get credit for a moderated post, you must edit and re-publish by the deadline. This is why it is important that you complete your Packback questions and responses far before the deadline in case your post is moderated.