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PALMS Backchannel Chat | The new alternative to Todaysmeet

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Turning Texts, Images & Videos into Conversations

NowComment has the most sophisticated collaboration tools available for group discussion, annotation, and curation of texts, images, and videos.

It displays threaded commenting alongside the sentences and paragraphs of texts, the areas of images, and timestamps of videos to create engaging online conversations literally in context. Brainstorm, debate, and collaborate as never before!

Featured Public Documents

Key Features

Free Accounts

Upload and discuss documents with people you invite or with the whole Internet ("Public Documents") at no cost!

Time Efficient

Interesting comments can be found quickly (they're tied to relevant document passages), and summary lines make skimming fast and easy.

Powerful

Any sentence, paragraph, image, or video can have multiple conversations, keeping discussions focused and on-topic.

Simple to Use

Our interface is intuitive, your documents are accessible wherever you are, and we do the hosting and maintenance.

Feature-Rich and Scalable

NowComment has the features to handle very large groups: notifications, assignments, subgroups, moderation, and more.

Read It Your Way

By default comments are off to the side (with multiple sort options!), but you can also display comments in-line.

Click on a comment's summary to see it in context

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Turning Texts, Images & Videos into Conversations NowComment has the most sophisticated collaboration tools available for group discussion, annotation, and curation of texts, images, and videos. It displays threaded commenting alongside the sentences and paragraphs of texts, the areas of images, and timestamps of videos to create engaging online conversations literally in context.

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Hints, tips, and where to click when using PeerMark in Feedback Studio.

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Teachers and students can have a private discussion without distracting the rest of the class.

Quickly see the teachers in green, the read only students will show as red.

As people start typing you'll see the typing indicator next to their name.

Let your students select an avatar image that best represents them.

You have full control over the Backchannel.

You decide if media can be embedded.

Force the backchannel to close if all teachers exit.

Set the title for discssion.

Invite both teachers and students into the Backchannel.

You can download a PDF of either the full unmoderated discussion (including swear words).

Or download the moderated transcript as it was seen in the Backchannel.

Check out a Sample transcript

We'll do our best to remove any profanity entered in by students.

Search your Backchannels, find the links and references to topics that have been discussed in the past.

Students can vote up messages that are important to them, teachers can quickly view which students have voted or amplified a message.

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Teachers and students can have a private discussion without distracting the rest of the class. Quickly see the teachers in green, the read only students will show as red. As people start typing you'll see the typing indicator next to their name. Let your students select an avatar image that best represents them.