Overview
Harmonize has a variety of stand-alone components you can add to your course: Discussions, Assignments, Peer Review, PDF Annotations, Polling, Chat, Course and Topic Q&As, and the Communication Center. Use the interactive demo below to learn how to add any of these components to your course in your school's Learning Management System.
Learn More about a Specific Component
Jump to another support article to learn more about the available components:
- Discussions (graded or ungraded)
- Assignments (graded or ungraded)
- Peer Review (graded or ungraded)
- PDF Annotation (graded or ungraded)
- Polls in Canvas and Polls in Another LMS (graded or ungraded)
- Chat (ungraded, enabled once per course)
- Course Q&A (ungraded, enabled once per course)
- Topic Q&A (ungraded)
- Communication Center (ungraded, always available)
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Can I change my ungraded component (discussion, assignment, peer review, etc.) into a graded one?
- This may or may not be possible depending on your school's LMS and it may come with unintended consequences. We recommend recreating the assignment as a graded assignment from the ground up if at all possible.
Q. Can I turn off chat in my course?
- No, chat can only be disabled at the global level (i.e., for an entire school). However, individuals can disable chat using the Chat Settings in their profile. In general, students are unlikely to use this feature if you don't explicitly add it to a module.
Q. Can I disable the Communication Center?
- No, but Canvas users can remove it from the lefthand panel by updating the course's navigation settings in Canvas.
Q. Can I add a second Course Q&A?
- No, but you can add a Topic Q&A, which has nearly identical functionality.