Learner contributions
Letting learners add their own pins
Open a scene for contributions, and choose when peers see them and whose name is on them.
A contributory scene lets learners pin the image themselves and see each other's work. You set the rules per scene.
Turning it on
Select a scene, then Let students add pins in the right panel. Write a prompt while you are there — "Add a pin where you notice something worth sharing" is better than an empty canvas, and much better than no instruction at all.
When the class sees a contribution
- I approve each one — nothing appears to the class until you say so. Slower, and the right default for a group you do not know yet.
- Show it straight away — appears for everyone the moment it is saved. Better for live sessions, where a queue kills the momentum.
Nothing reaches the class until you say so.
- You approve each contribution
- Safest with a new class
- Work waits in the Contributions panel
A contribution appears as soon as it is saved.
- Good for a live, supervised session
- You can still hide one afterwards
- Nothing is lost — you see it either way
Whose name the class sees
- Their own name — classmates see who added each pin.
- A nickname — classmates see a consistent, generated nickname instead.
Two things about nicknames matter:
- The nickname is stable. "Amber Fox" is the same person on Monday and on Friday, so a conversation can refer back to what someone said. It is stored, not recalculated.
- It is peer-facing only. You and your colleagues always see the real name. You cannot responsibly moderate work you cannot attribute, and the promise made to learners is only that their classmates will not know — which is exactly what the interface tells them.
Peers see the learner’s real name.
- Good where credit matters
- Good for peer feedback by name
Peers see a made-up name, such as "Amber Fox".
- Good for sensitive subjects
- The same learner keeps the same made-up name
- Staff still see the real person
Reviewing
Review contributions lists everything submitted, with the real author, ready to approve, hide or remove. The scene's panel shows a count when something is waiting.
Contributions and publishing
Contributions are live learner data, not part of the published snapshot. Publishing a new version does not disturb them, and they do not appear in an exported or embedded copy of the content.