Packback Learning Intelligence Platform

Packback is an education technology company founded in 2013, with origins in a classroom at Illinois State University and a privacy-policy address in Chicago, Illinois. It sells instructional AI tools that make student thinking visible and support inquiry-based learning in higher education and K-12.

The platform combines AI-coached discussions, real-time writing feedback and AI-assisted grading support, an originality check that lets students revise before submitting, and a new Teach the AI assignment in which students explain concepts to an AI learner. It integrates with major learning management systems and serves more than 600 institutions.

• AI Integrated Assignments: Teach the AI has students explain concepts to an AI learner and gives instructors a concept map and rubric report.
• Packback Discussions: inquiry-based discussion with built-in AI coaching.
• Packback Writing: real-time formative writing feedback and AI-assisted grading support.
• Originality: plagiarism prevention that lets students revise before submitting.
• Engagement insights: instructor view of student activity.
• LMS integration: Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace, Blackboard and others.

A Vietnamese university teaching English-medium programs could use writing feedback for academic writing courses. Lecturers could run discussion assignments with AI coaching in large general-education classes. Faculties could use Teach the AI to assess conceptual understanding.

Makes student thinking visible to instructors. Vendor-reported results include 30% faster grading per essay and 2X more student posts with source citations than the LMS. Originality checks reduce false positives. SOC 2 Type 2, FERPA and LTI Advantage certification support procurement.

Universities are shifting from detecting AI use to designing assignments that expose student thinking and process. Vietnamese and Southeast Asian universities building generative AI policies need tools that support writing quality and academic integrity at scale.

Founded in 2013; co-founders named on the About page include Mike Shannon and Kasey Gandham. Investment from Mark Cuban after a 2014 Shark Tank appearance. Serves more than 600 higher education and K-12 institutions.