Yellowdig

Use Yellowdig to create ongoing course conversations where students can share ideas, resources, questions, and responses with classmates. Yellowdig connects with Canvas and can track participation throughout the course.

Cost

No cost

Audience

Students, faculty & staff

Purpose

Course collaboration

Canvas integration

Access Yellowdig through your Canvas course

Getting started

Start with the Yellowdig Instructor Setup Guide.
Follow the Get Started with Yellowdig: Instructor Setup Guide to add Yellowdig to your course and begin setting up your community.
Set up your Yellowdig community.
Explore Yellowdig’s Community Setup resources for guidance on participation settings, grading, and other community options.
Explore Yellowdig as a student.
Take the Yellowdig Interactive Tour to see what posting, commenting, and interacting with course content can look like from the student perspective.

Using this tool in your course

Yellowdig supports ongoing course conversations and participation.

Continue conversations over time. Students can create posts and respond through the community feed.
Offer multiple ways to participate. Students can post, comment and react.
Share resources and questions. Students can add articles, videos, examples and questions to course conversations.
Build peer interaction. Students can follow and contribute to topic-based conversations.
Track participation over time. Yellowdig can recognize participation and pass scores to the Canvas Gradebook when configured.

Yellowdig examples

View the Yellowdig community feed

View Yellowdig posts and comments

Activity examples

Explore examples of how you might use Yellowdig in course activities.

Course-related resource sharing.
Students find an article, video, example or other resource connected to a course topic and create a Yellowdig post explaining why it may be useful or relevant to their classmates.
Reflection and discussion.
Students post a reflection on how their understanding of a topic has changed after a reading, activity, assignment or class discussion. Classmates can respond with questions, connections or their own perspectives.
Continue a class conversation.
Students use Yellowdig to continue a conversation that began during a class meeting, lecture or other course activity. They can add questions, examples, resources or responses after the scheduled class session ends.

Compare your options

Yellowdig is one of several ASU-supported options for course discussion, communication and student interaction. Compare the options below based on the type of activity and interaction you want to support.

	Yellowdig	Canvas Discussions	InScribe	Harmonize	Slack
May fit when you want	Ongoing course conversations and participation over time.	Straightforward prompt-and-reply discussions within Canvas.	Course or program Q&A and student support.	Structured discussions with media, annotation or peer feedback.	Course communication and real-time collaboration.
Primary interaction	Social feed with posts, comments and reactions.	Threaded discussions.	Questions, answers and replies.	Discussions, annotation, peer feedback and multimedia.	Channels, messages and Huddles.
Canvas connection	Available through Canvas with Gradebook connection.	Built into Canvas.	Available through Canvas.	Available through Canvas with Gradebook connection.	Can launch from Canvas and sync course enrollment.

FAQ

Create a Canvas assignment connected to Yellowdig. Based on the participation settings you choose, Yellowdig converts each student's earned points into a score that can be passed to the Canvas Gradebook.

You choose how students can earn participation points in Yellowdig. Criteria can include creating posts, commenting, meeting word-count expectations, receiving responses and other types of participation. Yellowdig uses those settings to calculate a participation score that can be passed to Canvas.

Yes. Instructors and teaching assistants can remove posts, mute conversations and configure content rules.

Yes. A single Yellowdig community can include students from multiple Canvas sections. Participation scores can still pass back to each student's appropriate Canvas course section.

Accessibility, privacy and other considerations

Accessibility

Yellowdig provides accessibility features for its web application and reports conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA, the accessibility standard used for web content. When adding your own posts, media or course materials, consider accessibility elements such as alternative text, captions, descriptive links and readable formatting.
Yellowdig's commitment to accessibility.

Community moderation

Yellowdig includes options for moderating student-created posts and comments. Community Owners and Facilitators can review flagged content, and instructors can configure additional moderation settings when needed.
Yellowdig’s community management guidance.

Resources

Explore ASU and Yellowdig resources for setting up Yellowdig, using it in your course, and learning more about available options.

ASU resources

Get Started with Yellowdig: Instructor Setup Guide.
Follow ASU guidance for setting up Yellowdig in your Canvas course.
Yellowdig at ASU.
Find ASU-specific information about Yellowdig access, technical support, and using Yellowdig with Canvas.

Yellowdig resources

Yellowdig teaching strategies.
Explore Yellowdig guidance and examples for using the platform in courses.
Yellowdig participation and grading.
Learn how Yellowdig participation points are calculated and how grades pass to the Canvas Gradebook.

Get support

Need technical help?

Contact the ASU Experience Center for general technical support or problems accessing Yellowdig. For Canvas-specific issues involving your course or Yellowdig's connection with Canvas, contact ASU LMS Support.

Want to explore ways to use Yellowdig in your course?

Learning Experience (LX) offers workshops and consultations where you can explore how Yellowdig or other enterprise technologies might support your teaching goals.

Looking for detailed Yellowdig guidance?

Visit Yellowdig’s How To Guides & Features for guidance on community setup, participation settings, grading and other Yellowdig features.