Transforming the way schools collaborate and learn.
Move beyond the passive "sit and get" model.
A virtual roundtable to transform learning into action by sharing solutions and feedback.
“It’s all about engagement
and connections."
"Learning isn’t going happen by sitting there listening to me; it’s when people implement the strategies - and then they learn from each other."
- Tim Hauber
Iowa State University
- Erma Anderson
International Math Consultant
AERO , MSIS
Customer Experiences
Hear from educational innovators
"Super easy for everyone to see each other's progress and learn from everyone's ideas"
- Malika
Meidinger
PYP Coordinator, SCIS
“Huddle Up provides us with an option to do more asynchronous collaboration and helps us replace much of the work that we previously could only do by holding live meetings.”
-Jerry,
Global Institute for IT Management
"Before we used Huddle Up, we talked a lot about building a community - a shared purpose. My experience with Huddle Up put all that talk into action."
- Kendra R
Head of School, ESBR
"Huddle Up allowed us to see everything in real time. Who has what done? And also, what kind of feedback they're giving to each other."
- Ben B
Professor, Valparaiso University
Use Cases
Click to explore unique Huddle Up use cases.
Apply knowledge and skills with feedback from all.
Communities of practice focused on action and accountability.
Share resources, implementation, and feedback. Archived for all.
Benefits
Is Huddle Up Right For You?
Take a look at our
unique interactive learning
....and check out our features.
Unlimited possibilities.
Unlimited projects. Unlimited users. Huddle Up will take you as far as you want to go.
Totally customizable.
Design the best learning experience for your team. With Huddle Up, you determine:
Project/Task due dates
Visibility of answers from RUNS/HUDDLES
Confidentiality of answers from RUNS/HUDDLES
Who gives feedback to whom for each HUDDLE
Feedback that is qualitative or quantitative
Intuitive workspace.
Huddle Up's platform is user-friendly and designed for you to spend more time making moves that matter and less time getting lost between tabs and windows. Here are some ways we make things easy on you:
Invite users with a simple link.
Communicate with internal messaging and email.
Link your video platform for conferencing
Click and clone projects for repeat use.
Single sign-on.
Your team has big ideas. We save them all for you.
While your team is learning and connecting, Huddle Up is archiving all of it. It'll be saved, organized, and accessible to you whenever you need it. Take advantage of features like:
Each project is archived for later use
Participation & Engagement data saved
Trackable user completion
All archiving is GDRP Compliant
Frequently
Asked Questions
How is Huddle Up different from a typical process where we learn in an LMS and collaborate via virtual or F2F meetings?
Our goal is for learners to take action (not simply 'comprehend material') and collaborate in one platform. Applying the content not only makes the learning more engaging and meaningful, but it allows the team to have a diversity of solutions (one from each member) so that we can learn from other's solutions and leverage peer feedback to improve.
Can I integrate Huddle Up with my current LMS or is it a stand-alone platform?
Either way works. Huddle Up can be used as a stand-alone LMS. Or, users can access Huddle Up without leaving your current LMS. Use it to supplement your current learning experience to be more solution-oriented and interactive.
What if I don't want my team to give feedback to each other?
That's fine. The Huddles are completely optional. Use them in places where they fit best. Or, simply rely on the innovative idea that you have a place where each member of the team can share a solution and access the solutions of others.
Is the feedback confidential?
It can be. Project leaders can toggle a switch to make Huddle feedback confidential or display names. It's your choice.
If the answers are shared with everyone, won't people just copy other answers to finish the work?
Initially, we encourage questions that don't have a "right" answer. That forces each user to create their own solution. But on a more practical level, the Project Leader can determine when the user responses will be displayed and who sees them (everyone or just the Project Leader).
What kind of data will I get?
Each user is able to receive feedback that is qualitative (comments) and quantitative (objective/numerical). This fuels the improvement of each individual and also helps the team learn and make data-informed decisions as ideas, feedback, and data are visible to everyone.
Can I assign who gives feedback to whom?
Yes. With a few simple clicks, Project Leaders can set up the Huddle to have every user give feedback to everyone or to a specific number of users. Better yet, these pairings of users can be randomly assigned or manually assigned by the Project Leader.
Besides Huddles, how else does Huddle Up foster interaction?
Huddles provide a direct way for users to interact with each other by giving feedback, but it's not the only way. Each RUN task has its own Group Chat allowing users to share questions, resources, and links to help everyone. Additionally, each RUN can also allow Open Feedback (comments) so that any user can give feedback. Lastly, we provide an internal Direct Messaging system so that any user can send one (or more) recipients private feedback.
Can I afford this?
Most plans cost $3-$4 per user / per month.
How does Huddle Up build shared accountability?
Let's face it. Sometimes learners fall behind. In Huddle Up, the progress of each user is visible to everyone in the cohort. With Huddle Up, the goal is to learn from each other's solutions AND the feedback you receive on your own solution. The visibility of each learner is transparent to all. Learners who fall behind also miss out on receiving feedback on their ideas. We believe that's a better way to keep everyone on the team engaged and build a culture of shared purpose.
Can I really customize the experience just for my team?
Completely. There's no shortage of great resources out there. Huddle Up creates an environment where your resources can be shared and implemented, collaboratively. Add a Ready, Runs, or Huddle in any sequence you wish to maximize your team's learning and interaction.
Doesn't this require a high level of trust between everyone?
Innovative organizations need teams that can learn from each other. So, the question is "How do you best build this trust?" The great thing is that Project Leaders have the flexibility to build in as much or as little sharing and feedback as they wish.
How do you best build a team's level of trust and collaboration?
We believe the best way to learn the skills of collaboration, feedback, and balancing a diversity of perspectives isn't some separate project taught in isolation of YOUR context. These skills are learned and developed within collaborative projects where each team members work through an authentic challenge - and learn from each other along the way.
Can Huddle Up be self-paced? Can I add interaction later?
Yes. If your team is not ready to share solutions with each other, then set up your experience as a self-paced experience where learners don't see each other's ideas. The choice is yours. (But we are big believers that shared solutions and feedback is a game-changer for each team - and individuals within.)
Can I clone an experience to use with the next group?
Yes. With one click all of your resources and learning tasks will be cloned and all the users (and their answers) will be removed. You can still edit the newly cloned project if desired.
How can Huddle Up minimize the time we spend in meetings?
Yes. When teams have a platform to share ideas and feedback, we give everyone a voice (something that seldom happens in meetings). By giving an opportunity for everyone to share their thinking, we can minimize the amount of time needed in face-to-face meetings. More importantly, when your team does meet, there is an archive of all the ideas, feedback, and data. That sort of information is accessible to everyone and fuels a much more productive meeting.
A Note from Our Founder
Derek Luebbe, CEO
As a lifelong educator, I created Huddle Up Learning because I fundamentally believe learning is a process that should naturally be engaging (and fun!). Yet, I saw two fundamental problems with the way we approach organizational learning platforms.
Initially, there was never a shortage of awesome things to learn and get excited about. Content was never the problem. The problem exists in the disconnect between what we call learning (theoretically comprehending concept/topic) and the gap that exists when people try to apply that learning and take action. (Harvard studies suggest we only apply about 12% of what we actually "learn." Yikes.
The second problem I saw was that we typically view learning as an isolating experience (completed in a platform or handed into some supervisor/instructor). We then tend to collaborate on some other platform. Why do we have to think of learning and collaboration as distinct skills, detached from one another, and completed on different platforms? They are connected and we are doing learners everywhere an injustice when we do not try to align them to the greatest degree possible.
That's why we created Huddle Up Learning.
Huddle Up goes beyond quizzes. It's tied to action - and then we leverage social learning by sharing ideas and feedback along the way.
Our mission is to transform the way that teams and individuals collaborate and learn by making the experience more interactive and engaging. At the end of the day, we don't want to just learn ideas and skills - we want to learn from each other.
I've always been a fan of Margaret Mead's quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." That was our driving force - to make a change in how we collaborate and learn. By extension, I hope a platform like Huddle Up enables your team to make the change you desire for your organization.