Packback Online Community Participation
Packback Questions is an online discussion platform with the purpose of fueling curiosity in every student. Instead of just focusing on memorizing facts, Packback Questions is the place where you can ask well-thought-out questions that you are truly curious about. In addition, Packback platform offers in-line coaching, immediate quantitative feedback via the curiosity score, and clear community guidelines that will help develop the imperative and life-long skill of asking good questions. Furthermore, this platform meets you where you are at with a familiar social media-like design and social engagement tools. After engaging on Packback, you’ll find you better understand concepts, can more confidently discuss application of the material, and better understand how to use the course materials in your future.
Getting started on Packback – You will receive a welcome email from holla@packback.co prompting you to finish registration and payment. Packback has already created an account for you with your school email, all you need to do is reset your password. This email may be directed to spam or filtered out, so make sure you do a thorough scan of your inbox if you can’t find the email. If you already have a Packback account, simply click the email to head to your new community.
If you don’t receive an email from Packback, follow the instructions below:
- Navigate to https://Packback.co/questions and click “Register as a new student”.
Note: If you already have an account on Packback you can login with your credentials.
- Make sure to register with your SCHOOL email address and real first name and last name.
- Enter our class community’s Community Lookup Key into the “Join a new Community” module on your dashboard. Please note, the following Community Lookup Key is only for locating the community; it is NOT a coupon code or access code.
- Our Community Lookup Code: bb648972-5c26-43ed-96a0-fb24bfe4522d
Follow the instructions on your screen to finish your payment & registration.
Posting requirement on Packback – You must post 1 Question and 2 Answers relevant to our class subject matter per week. The deadline for your 1 question & 2 responses is 11:59PM on every Sunday.
Note: it takes 24 hours for the Packback team to moderate a post and send a coaching email. If by any reason your post is moderated because it does NOT meet the Community Guidelines, you will need to edit and re-publish your post to receive credit for the week. This is why it is important that you complete your Packback questions and responses far before the deadline in case your post is moderated.
Packback community participation is worth 100 points. Starting in week 4, there will be a total of 11 weeks during the semester when you are asked to submit and answer questions about the following week’s journal club article. Each week’s activity is worth 10 points and the lowest score will be dropped. For each week:
- Ask 1, answer 2 questions with an average curiosity score of 60+ – 10 points;
- Ask 1, answer 2 questions with an average curiosity score of 50-59 – 8 points;
- Ask 1, answer 2 questions with an average curiosity ccore less than 50 – 6 points;
- Does not have 1 question asked or less than 2 question answers – 0 points.
Curiosity score – The curiosity score is a baseline measure of quality & acts as instantaneous feedback. It isn’t wholistic, but will assess the structure of a post, and reflect the effort put forth by students.
