External Tool Page - Tandem

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Tandem Links to an external site.: is a tool that forms teams based on user preferences, offering automated, tailored guidance for student-teams and their instructors, thereby enhancing teamwork for both students and instructors. Tandem collects data from students about how their team is performing. Then, Tandem uses a sophisticated algorithm to identify teams in need of support from instructors. Tandem also uses team data to assign the most relevant team work lesson to each team.

• Personalized Coaching: Tandem delivers personalized coaching content to students based on how their team is doing. The lessons that students receive include exercises to help them create plans, assess progress, and reflect on their own behaviors.
• Real-Time Insights: Tandem surveys students regularly so that instructors can monitor how the student teams are performing. Students see visualizations of their team’s survey data so that they can be more aware of their team’s health.
• Adaptable Features:  Tandem is flexible; each course or program can set its own schedule, use pre-made lessons or customize parts of the content to fit their course, and determine what student measures matter to them. Instructor views in Tandem include customizable performance categories that identify teams who need support.

Tandem helps Instructors:

• Quickly identify which teams need intervention

• Offer resources to teams that need them

• Assess individual performance on course-specific team tasks

• Automatically form teams based on instructor-selected criteria

Tandem helps students:

• Navigate team issues when they come up

• Interpret team member feedback about course-specific tasks 

• Communicate team issues with the instructional team

Tandem Instructor Guide Links to an external site.

 

Introduction video 

 

Tandem Knowledge Base Articles

• Accessing Tandem from Canvas Links to an external site.
• • Add Tandem to your Canvas course, setting up Tandem in Canvas and what to do if the course you want to connect to Tandem is listed or unlisted 
• Connecting Tandem to your Gradebook Links to an external site.
• • Tandem surveys, team checks, lessons, and reflections are graded on completion. You can connect these to your Canvas Gradebook. 
• How to check a student's Tandem activity Links to an external site.
  
  • Tandem uses a sophisticated activity tracking system. That system allows you to see each of your students’ Tandem activity 

 

Have questions?

Reach out to tandem-support@umich.edu for further assistance.

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