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# Packback

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> Packback is a cloud-based platform designed to help educational institutions improve student engagement through online communities and discussion threads. Teaching assistants (TAs) can use the Feed IQ functionality to sort, retrieve, highlight and pin relevant posts from the community database. 


Supervisors can automatically monitor question threads to review community discussions and detect plagiarism, closed-ended statements, abusive language and more. Instructors can enhance learning experiences whilst maintaining compliance with PCI and FERPA regulations. Additionally, teachers can generate grading reports with details such as students' participation scores, name, email address, section and ID. 


Packback facilitates integration with various third-party learning management systems (LMS). Pricing is based on the number of student communities and support is extended via documentation, FAQs and an inquiry form.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **3.7/5** by 3 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **3.7/5** | 3 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 2.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 3.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 60% | (6/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Packback

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$25.00
- **Pricing model**: Per Feature
- **Pricing Details**: Packback pricing starts from $25 for one student community.

Packback Questions: $39
Packback Deep Dives: $39
Packback Bundle (Questions, Instruct, and Deep Dives): $49
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Alerts/Notifications
- Commenting/Notes
- Communication Management
- Community Management
- Engagement Tracking
- Filtering
- For Higher Education
- Interactive Learning
- Learning Management
- Progress Reports
- Real-Time Notifications
- Reminders
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Student Group Management
- Student Management
- Student Portal
- Third-Party Integrations

## Integrations (6 total)

- Blackboard
- Canvas
- Google Classroom
- Moodle
- Sakai LMS
- edX

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base

## Category

- [Student Engagement Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4330/student-engagement/software)

## Related Categories

- [Student Engagement Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4330/student-engagement/software)
- [Community Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4515/community/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Kahoot\!](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/212803/kahoot) — 4.7/5 (2888 reviews)
2. [ClassPoint](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/252349/classpoint) — 4.8/5 (266 reviews)
3. [Vevox](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/301089/vevox) — 4.8/5 (402 reviews)
4. [Wayground](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/403320/quizizz) — 4.8/5 (544 reviews)
5. [Wooclap](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/392875/wooclap) — 4.6/5 (187 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Like Packback, but might consider a different platform" — 5.0/5

> **Lisa** | *10 August 2024* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: I love how Packback encouraged discussions about course content outside of class.
> 
> **Cons**: How much the price has gone up since I first began using it.
> 
> I liked being one of the first professors on campus to include Packback, which was fairly new when I started using it. Now it seems like a lot of folks are incorporating it, reducing its novelty.

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### "Promotes Quality Discussion in Asynchronous Courses" — 5.0/5

> **Latisha** | *21 April 2022* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: First, the AI used in the platform helps students develop quality questions and responses by checking content, grammar/conventions, and sentence structure. It models how to compose discussion questions that can be used in other formats. Second, customer service is outstanding.
> 
> **Cons**: At this time, the product works as I need it to.
> 
> Packback is excellent to integrate into Blackboard LMS and it promotes higher level thinking and community building among asynchronous students.

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### "Worthless software and a waste of money" — 1.0/5

> **Noah** | *2 May 2021* | E-Learning | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It's interesting to mess with the algorithm and see how dumb it really is.
> 
> **Cons**: It's a huge waste of money and is worthless. The design of the software and the algorithm is blatantly lazy. There is no quality check by the AI whatsoever, it is incredibly simplistic. You can write utter nonsense and get 100 points from the AI much easier than you can get 100 points by writing an actual high quality post (I know because I have tried both). It also incentivizes professors to be lazy and not actually read the posts. I even flagged my own post and nobody ever reviewed it; it was only reviewed by an AI bot and I just reposted the same nonsense I wrote before and still got my 100 points.
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> It is horrible. No benefit, just a waste of time every week and a waste of $25 per student per semester for a crappy, poorly designed software. Never use it, please. Use anything else.

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