Stackle adds structured engagement activities inside your existing Canvas and Brightspace pages so the thinking students do while they are learning leaves a record, provides real-time insights across your cohort, not just the work they submit at the end.
THE INVISIBLE LEARNING PROBLEM
Your LMS tells you when students access a page. It does not tell you what happened when they got there.
Did it land? Where’s the confusion? Who’s still here? Without a way for students to respond in the moment, every module page delivers content into silence.
Week 1 · Introduction
Week 2 · Core Concepts
Week 3 · Case Study
Week 4 · Application
Week 5 · Synthesis
We’d read through 500 submissions and it just didn’t feel particularly authentic. It made me sit back and go... do students actually care about this? There was no way to know.
Dr Tegan Bradley · Lecturer, Psychology · University of Newcastle
BUILD ENGAGEMENT
Stackle activities embed directly into the Canvas and Brightspace pages where your content already lives. Students respond in the moment. Not later, not separately, not in another system. Four activity types are designed specifically for this: building engagement right where learning happens.
QUICK REFLECT
You want to know whether the reading landed before the tutorial begins.
Place a Quick Reflect at the end of the module page. Students respond once, the response locks on submission, and you can see exactly where comprehension is, captured in the moment, before refinement or research changes the answer.
Psychology · University of Newcastle, placed at key conceptual junctures within module content
REFLECT
You want students to keep returning to the same question as their understanding deepens.
Reflect activities sit inside a module page and stay open across the semester. Students can return, revise, and add to their thinking as the course progresses. Each update is visible to you, showing not just what they think now, but how that thinking has shifted.
Professional Practice · Nursing, ongoing documentation of clinical reasoning as experience develops
REFLECT AND COMPARE
You want students to commit to their own thinking before the group conversation begins.
Students submit their individual response first. Peer responses are only revealed after they have committed to their own answer. Individual thinking is protected before group influence can occur, making the peer learning that follows genuinely comparative rather than imitative.
Legal Ethics · Law, students form independent positions on ethical dilemmas before seeing peer perspectives
CHECKLIST
You want to know which students are prepared before they enter the lab, the clinic, or the tutorial.
Checklist activities guide students through a structured preparation sequence embedded in the module page. You can see completion across the entire cohort in real time, who is ready, who is not, and where the gaps are, before the session begins.
Pre-Lab Preparation · Science, students confirm procedural readiness and safety understanding before lab access
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Student engagement across Psychology, Nursing, and Law · University of Newcastle
The Stackle Author Assistant is a context-aware AI chat built directly into the activity builder. Educators describe what they need in plain language: a weekly clinical reflection, a pre-lecture knowledge check, a structured peer comparison activity. The Author Assistant scaffolds the activity, ready to embed into any Canvas or Brightspace page.
This is not a generic AI tool. It understands where you are in the platform, what activity type fits your purpose, and what your students will experience. Building your first activity goes from an hour to a few minutes.
Available to all Stackle institutions. Release date to be confirmed.
LIVE INSIGHTS
In a cohort of 300 students, there is no way to know who has engaged with the content and who has quietly disappeared, until results arrive. By then, the semester has passed and the moment for intervention is gone. Stackle makes engagement visible in real time, across your entire cohort, week by week.
The Progress Matrix shows every student and every question in a single view. A teal dot means responded. A dash means not yet. For 500 students across a module, you can see exactly who is behind on which question in seconds, without opening a single individual record.
The Longest Response Gap widget surfaces the students who have gone longest without submitting anything. Not who submitted late. Who has stopped engaging entirely. That is a different and more urgent signal, visible early enough to act on.
Expand all responses for any question and read every student's answer in sequence, inline, without navigating away. Formative review of a cohort's understanding, available any time during the semester, not just at the assessment endpoint.
PSYC-2201 · Progress Matrix
Week 3: Cognitive Development - Responses
42 of 48 students responded to Q1 · 6 not started
LONGEST RESPONSE GAP
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This is the engagement layer. The same activities also connect to Canvas Assignments, building the progressive evidence trail that institutions use for assessment and compliance. That story continues on the Assessment Evidence page.
ACTIVITY TYPES
Every activity embeds directly into your Canvas and Brightspace pages. Each one is designed for a specific moment, from capturing an immediate reaction to building a semester-long record of thinking development.
Captures a student's immediate thinking at a specific moment. One response, locked on submission, an authentic snapshot of understanding before research or refinement can change the answer.
Psychology · Placed at key conceptual junctures within module content to capture genuine comprehension in the moment.
Students record their thinking and return to refine it as understanding develops. Open and iterative, the revision history shows how thinking has shifted across the semester.
Professional Practice · Nursing, ongoing documentation of clinical reasoning updated as placement experience develops.
A rich, multimedia reflective space combining video, resources, and varied question types in one activity. Built for complex, sustained engagement over a full semester.
Social Work · Capstone course journals that synthesise field placement learning across a program.
Students commit to their own thinking first, then see how peers approached the same question. Individual perspective is protected before group influence can occur.
Law · Students form independent positions on ethical dilemmas before peer perspectives are revealed.
Students respond early in a course, then return to the same prompts later to see how their understanding has changed. The before-and-after comparison is itself the evidence of learning.
Education · Pre and post module activities that formally document shifts in professional thinking across a semester.
Students build a collection of reflections across the course and export the complete record as a Word document, a portable evidence artefact for assignments, exams, or professional portfolios.
Allied Health · Exported reflection journals used as foundation material for formal placement assessment submissions.
Multiple evidence stages across a semester connect to a single Canvas Assignment. Each stage is timestamped and versioned, building a progressive record that flows directly into SpeedGrader.
Business · Competency portfolios with five semester checkpoints compiling automatically into one gradebook entry.
Students work through a structured task sequence embedded in the module page. Completion is visible across the entire cohort in real time, before the session, the lab, or the assessment begins.
Science · Pre-lab preparation sequences confirming procedural readiness and safety understanding before students enter the lab.
The most minimal activity type, invisible to students as a Stackle construct. Appears as a seamless part of the Canvas page content, capturing inline engagement without any context switch or platform signal.
Any discipline · Inline comprehension checks and post-video response prompts embedded directly within module reading content.
Every activity type is configurable to match your institution’s language, branding, and pedagogical approach.
GOING FURTHER
Every activity on this page embeds into a Canvas or Brightspace page as an engagement point. The same activities can also connect to a Canvas or Brightspace Assignment, building a progressive, timestamped evidence trail that spans an entire semester and flows directly into the Assignment Marks.
That connection is what transforms engagement into institutional evidence. It is what makes the learning journey auditable, exportable, and structurally resistant to fabrication. That is a different story, told in full on the Assessment Evidence page.
Sean Duffy · Co-founder & CEO
Thirty minutes with Sean. Bring a Canvas or Brightspace page you already teach with and see what becomes visible when a Stackle activity is added to it.
