Yellowdig is a social media platform designed solely to support academic activities. It offers all the common features we expect, including posting text, video, audio, and images, and using hashtags, @mentions, and upvoting, but also includes instructor tools for assessing student activity that are integrated into the Canvas Gradebook.

LSA conducted a limited pilot during the Winter 2018 term to assess Yellowdig as a tool for increasing student engagement and connections to course content. Professor Mika LaVaque-Manty used Yellowdig in his course, Introduction to Political Theory, and he will share his experiences. We will also provide a high level overview of the features Yellowdig offers.