Our platform provides the tools professors and students need to engage in meaningful, structured academic discussions that enhance learning outcomes.
Designed for Academic Excellence
Innovative Discussion Technology
Harness the power of structured discussion frameworks and advanced technology to optimize the effectiveness of classroom and campus-wide conversations.
Civil Discourse Framework
Our platform encourages respectful disagreement and the thoughtful exchange of ideas through structured response frameworks and citation tools.
Learning Analytics
Track engagement, measure participation quality, and identify learning trends with our comprehensive analytics dashboard.
Role-based Access
Separate professor and student portals with specialized tools for each role, streamlining the teaching and learning experience.
Researched-Backed
Built on pedagogical research and best practices in academic discourse, our platform is designed to enhance critical thinking skills.
Education-First Design
Every feature is crafted with learning outcomes in mind, providing a focused environment for academic growth and development.
Promoting a Culture of Civility
Structured Conversations
A Socratic Seminar-inspired framework, complete with clear discussion guidelines, source requirements, and participation metrics, helps keep conversations reasoned, logical, and respectful.
Peaceful Idea Exchange
Thinkifi has been carefully designed to foster civil idea exchange and viewpoint diversity, free from unhealthy and toxic behvior among participants.
Smart Moderation Technology
Thinkifi leverages the latest advancements in AI to help foster discussion integrity.
Culture of Respect and Trust
Thinkifi’s most important currency is the trust of its users. We work hard to maintain a culture of respectful, peaceful dialogue on important topics facing our world.
Broad Array of Use Cases for Educational Institutions
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For Asynchronous Classroom Instruction
Using electronic discussion tools in the classroom fosters community, teaches students to defend their points of view, and exposes students to different opinions. But traditional classroom discussion platforms are problematic: unstructured, chaotic, and poorly designed, resulting in noisy, confusing, and confrontational hyperbole.
The Thinkifi difference: Thinkifi is consciously and deliberately designed to be a platform for people to have rigorous, intellectual discourse. By fostering structured discussions, leveraging AI and human-driven moderation to minimize trolling and shouting matches, and creating a culture of accountability and integrity, Thinkifi enhances and optimizes learning outcomes.
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For Campus-wide Conversations
Institutions of higher learning have a mandate to foster viewpoint diversity and healthy, collaborative idea exchange. Yet most collaboration and social media tools used for campus-wide conversations are not up to the challenge: open long-form commentary, unstructured formats, and missing sources and evidence for points of view result in a noisy, confusing, and tedious lack of clarity. Or worse yet, the conversation isn’t had at all.
The Thinkifi difference: Thinkifi is designed to break through the suboptimal discussion technology landscape, with its singular goal of enhancing learning and understanding for students. We do this by creating a culture of measured, constructive, and rigorous dialogue.
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For Inter-campus Dialogue
The past twenty years have created a social media landscape fraught with confusion, misinformation, and hyperbole. Far from providing clarity and a way to understand or contribute to collective wisdom, public discussions of important ideas often devolve into intolerance, shouting matches, and psychic demoralization. Our world is poorer because of it.
The Thinkifi difference: As a dialogue platform that offers an alternative to the worst attributes of public discourse, we don’t have biased moderation, rambling, incoherent shouting matches, or a business model that rewards sensationalism and conflict. Thinkifi provides a structured way of engaging with important ideas that balances open expression with intellectual discipline.