Packback 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
Integrations
User Reviews

Overview

Packback

3.7

(3)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Packback

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.

Packback Screenshots

Packback Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $25.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$25.00

per feature

No plan information available

Packback Features

Popular features found in Student Engagement Platform
Communication Management
Community Management
Event Calendar
Interactive Learning
Mobile App
Orientation Workflow Management
Polls/Voting
More features of Packback
Alerts/Notifications
Commenting/Notes
Engagement Tracking
Filtering
For Higher Education
Learning Management
Progress Reports
Real-Time Notifications
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Student Group Management
Student Management
Student Portal
Third-Party Integrations

Packback Integrations

Canvas

edX

Sakai LMS

Moodle

Blackboard

Google Classroom

Packback User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.7

Ratings Breakdown

67%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

2.7

Customer support

3.7

Functionality

3.3

Have you used Packback and would like to share your experience with others?

Lisa M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2024

Like Packback, but might consider a different platform

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Latisha H.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Promotes Quality Discussion in Asynchronous Courses

Packback is excellent to integrate into Blackboard LMS and it promotes higher level thinking and community building among asynchronous students.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Noah K.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Worthless software and a waste of money

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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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