With an average of more than 650 students enrolled across his classes, Professor Craig Miller says his daily email inbox was nearly insuperable.
The professor of computer graphics technology used to spend hours at a time responding to hundreds of homework and course housekeeping questions, such as how to access the CATIA CAD software suite or when certain assignments were due.
But after introducing Purdue’s social media-driven collaboration tool, Mixable, Miller says the bombardment of emails ceased overnight.
“I like to work smarter and not harder, and Mixable saves me boatloads of time because it allows students to reach out to and answer each other instead of relying exclusively on me and my teaching assistants,” Miller says.