Yellowdig
Yellowdig is a third party tool available in ASU Canvas courses for discussion purposes. Members in a course will interact on one board to automatically earn points for completed tasks such as pinning, commenting, and liking peer’s pins. Instructors may provide prompts for each pin that is created or have users contribute to one topic several times throughout the course’s duration. Points from Yellowdig will passback, if enabled, to each student’s Canvas grade.
Benefits:
- Increased student engagement over using Canvas discussion boards
- “Social media” UX approach may be more appealing to students
- A formative assessment approach to evaluating student engagement and learning.
- Auto-grading capabilities and auto-passback Canvas Gradebook
Introducing Yellowdig