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.

Adding Packback to my courses has lead to deeper student engagement, improved writing outcomes, and saves me time by allowing me to provide quicker feedback to students. The AI Writing Tutor in the Writing Assignments is very valuable to students, especially developmental-level students, as it provides prompting questions if they are experiencing writer's block (while not giving them the answers--a student told me, "It's asking me the same questions you would ask me in the tutoring lab!" The depth of student responses in the Discussion Assignments is much improved over discussion boards in our LMS, too. Overall, Packback is a way of "steering into the skid" of incorporating AI into the classroom. It is easy to get students set up in the platform, as the customer support from the Packback team is second to none: creating a 15 or 30 minute meeting with a Packback support representative can have you set up and ready to use your classes right away. It integrates very smoothly with our LMS, so students can access Packback assignments very easily.

The proofreading tool saves me quite a bit of time reviewing and re-reviewing submissions.