I can focus on the content and not spelling and grammar! It opens up discussion to what the students are interested in, rather than a narrow scope from the instructor's perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish I could better customize acceptance of late work, and late grades. I still manually enter grades in because I give 10% grade deduction for each day the initial question is late, up to four days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Packback helps build community in my classes. It's interactive and engages my students to connect with each other through responding to each other's writing. Packback is easy to use and the customer support is quick and responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Grades do not post immediately. It takes a few hours to load grades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease at which you can tailor it for your classes and the ease at which you can use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downsides are the writing assignment text boxes, it would be nice to have greater functionality like MS Word. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What makes Packpack especially valuable is its ability to enable both students and faculty to engage and provide feedback more attentively and in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would just say the cost of Packback is starting to be a little too expensive for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ease of use of incorporating AI tools and the customer service is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Packback calendar needs to be automatically synced with the Canvas platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Actually my students grow closer and more appreciative of their peers. It is easy to use. The more that my students use it, the more they value it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have not been able to identify a downside from Packback itself. Many students forget due dates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Packback is easy to navigate, but that's about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really don't like packback due to how the platform is used. Instead of using it to help students better seek help from their peers, it is used as an assignment system where you must ask a few questions and answer a few a week, which grows stale very fast as the pool of interesting and answerable questions diminishes exponentially, and the things you can ask diminish greatly as well. overall, I wish teachers would use packback in a better way, and the main hindrance from this happening is packback insisting this is how it should be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that you can search questions and respond to others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes there are duplicate questions, the scoring is rigged Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps show how you can improve your post and share your best work! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing! It is so helpful in sharing research and asking questions with good sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It could be used to instigate conversation; however, this should be used in classes related to conversation, not classes designed for the student to be learning maximum information on biology/chemistry.etc. If the class is based on learning, such as the majority of science and chemistry classes, this should not be used. It distracts students from learning by making them concerned about if they have or have not answered their PackBack questions instead of them learning the information their instructor just taught them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been required by a class to participate in PackBack. However, this website has done nothing but stress me out. I would not at all recommend it to teachers and it has zero ability for you to look at what you have posted unless you are willing to scroll through ALL OF THE PREVIOUS POSTS to find your own. This is incredibly irritating when you are a college student simply trying to make sure all your homework is done, but you know have to waste an hour of time you could be doing other school work to simply ensure you did the packback part of some other random class. Zero of the graphic designer/user-friendly functions of this website have actually been helpful, in fact, I have found zero aspects of this website user-friendly or helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.