Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Dowd

May 13, 2019 Author: Read time: 1 min
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An Easy Way to Grade Discussions with Packback

Dr. Joseph Dowd shares how easy it is for him to grade students’ discussion on Packback by using a mix of participation and the Curiosity Score!

INSTITUTION

University of California San Bernardino

DEPARTMENT

Philosophy

COURSE

Introduction into Eastern Philosophy

SIZE

35-56 Students

” Packback is one of the most useful online tools that I’ve found for teaching. Logistically [grading] has been incredibly easy because all I need to do is go to my Packback account and look at the participation report and see how many posts were made on a given week and what their average curiosity score is for that week.”

Community Stats

QUESTIONS

148

AVG CURIOSITY SCORE

76

RESPONSES

283

POST WITH SOURCE

61%

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