Overview
Good news: Harmonize’s best tools and features are now available for assignments! With Harmonize Assignments, you can:
- Get video, audio, and screen recording! Students can upload documents and images, submit text, or record audio, video, and screen captures right within Harmonize. They can even do combinations of these modes in a single assignment submission.
- Provide detailed feedback for documents, images, and video. Harmonize makes grading easier for all types of assignment submissions.
- Enable AI Coaching, if you want students to get real-time writing feedback that supports self-reflection and revision.
- Use the brainstorming tool to help you generate unique prompts at different complexity levels.
- Generate a rubric, so students understand what you're looking for.
Watch the interactive demo below to learn more.
Create an Assignment
- Set up a Harmonize assignment the way you normally would in your school's learning management system.
- In the content picker, select Assignment.
- Add Instructions for your assignment into the textbox or use Generate Prompt to get AI assistance.
- Consider changing the complexity level of your assignment to suit your students' needs. Each level offers very different kinds of activities.
- Create a rubric in Harmonize if you would like students to receive AI coaching on their drafts. To create a rubric, you will first click on Generate Focus Areas.
- Consider using AI Coaching so your students can receive feedback on their work based on your rubric and then make changes before submission.
- When you're happy with the assignment, click Publish.
Grade an Assignment
All of Harmonize's critique tools are available to you when you grade:
- Harmonize Annotations (for uploaded documents)
- Timestamped video feedback (for video and screen recording)
- Drawing and commenting on Images (for all image file types)
You can even turn on auto-grading and set minimum word counts (though note that only words entered in the textbox will count).
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Can I add peer review to my assignment?
- Yes, you can do this by toggling on Peer Review on the Peer Review tab. See Create a Peer Review Assignment.
Q. Can I use a rubric I already have?
- If the rubric is inside Harmonize in another topic in the course, then yes. Just click "Select Existing Rubric."
- Note: Canvas users can attach any Canvas rubric to any Harmonize assignment, and it will be available for grading in the SpeedGrader. However, these rubrics cannot be used for AI Coaching.
Q. Can I set a minimum word count?
- Yes, you can set a minimum word count for an assignment on the Milestones Due Dates & Auto-Grading tab in the editor.
- Note: The minimum word count will only apply to text submitted in the Harmonize textbox. It does not work for uploaded documents.
Q. How do Milestones work for assignments? Can I have more than one?
- By default, assignments only have one milestone. However, you can always add additional milestones using the Milestones Due Dates & Auto-Grading tab. This might be useful if you want students to keep a journal with successive entries or if you'd like them to reflect on work after submitting it.