Packback Instruct provides instructors with the holy grail of Packback add-on tools that can be used for engagement, monitoring your community, and supporting student motivation all through inquiry-based discussion. Poll Assignments and Questions with Choices will be a great way to level up your student engagement.
What is the difference between Poll Assignments and Questions with Choices?
Questions with Choices:
- Poll choices can be added as an addition to an instructor's question post
- Appears only on the main curiosity feed within a Packback assignment. Question posts with poll choices cannot be found via the Discussion Polls tab.
- Students are required to include a written response along with their selection and will be checked by the AI just like any other post on Packback
- Responses to this poll are counted in the Packback student participation report
Poll Assignments:
- Appears only in the Polls tab
- Students are NOT required to include a written response along with their selection
- Responses to this poll are NOT counted in the Packback student participation report
- Student replies are anonymous to other students
- To grade a Poll Assignment, you can download a report containing all replies by clicking on “Options” >”Download Replies”.
Please Note: These settings on Poll Assignments allow you to use as many polls as you would like to help support synchronous engagement or other quick check-ins without having those responses detract from or counts towards a students required homework on Packback.
Where can students find each poll type?
Questions With Choices
Questions with poll choices will always appear in the main feed of the Packback assignment for students to see. All they need to do is click Assignments on the left hand side of the community and then select the corresponding Assignment.
Please note: We recommend pinning your post to the top of your assignments feed for students to easily access! As with all Questions, these posts can be scheduled, pinned, and responses count as a response-style post for a given assignment.
Poll Assignments
Poll Assignments can be found by going to the Polls tab under the Packback Instruct menu.
Step-by-Step instructions for how students can respond to a discussion polls
Step 1. Students can access your question post with poll choices by heading to the corresponding assignment it was posted under. Students can access Poll Assignments discussion polls, by going to the Polls tab under the Packback instruct menu
Step 2. Once a Poll Assignment poll or a question post with poll choices has been created by an Instructor/and or TA, they can then respond by clicking on the "Add Response" button located at the bottom right hand corner of the poll post!
Step 3. Students will then be prompted to select their poll choice and defend their response!
Still Have Questions?
If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to our Support Team by filling out our Request Form or reaching out to help@packback.co.