These methods grade the process. Most tools only keep the final file.
PBL, design thinking, and action learning all assess how students got there: the inquiry, the iterations, the critique, the reflection. A submission box keeps none of that.
Sustained inquiry stays visible
Research, sources, screenshots, interviews, and field notes accumulate on the canvas as the question develops, instead of scattering across personal folders.
Critique and revision in context
Feedback lands beside the draft it refers to, and the next version sits next to the last one. Revision becomes something students can see and defend.
Reflection has material to point at
When the process is on the canvas, reflection stops being a vague essay and becomes concrete: this attempt, this feedback, this change.
The LMS holds the course. ALLO holds the work.
An LMS is good for enrollment, announcements, grades, and official course material. It is not where students naturally compare options, build a shared board, or review visual work together.
ALLO sits beside the LMS as the working space: the place where class material, student drafts, instructor comments, peer feedback, and final portfolios remain visible.
From driving question to public product.
A real project runs on artifacts: the question, the research, the drafts, the critique rounds, the final exhibition. ALLO keeps that arc on one canvas, so the public product ships with the thinking that earned it.
Run the studio wall, not a file exchange.
Design thinking works in modes: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test. Each mode leaves artifacts, and they belong side by side. ALLO is the pin-up space where ideas multiply, get compared, and converge, with comments on the exact note, sketch, or frame.
Use ALLO with the tools your campus already has.
Keep Canvas LMS, Moodle, Google Classroom, or Blackboard for enrollment, announcements, and grades. Use ALLO when the class needs to see, compare, annotate, and present work together.
Students can return to the path, not only the final file.
Action learning teams act, then reflect on what the action taught them. A portfolio should show the same thing: not the polished result alone, but the attempts, the feedback, and the decisions between them. ALLO keeps that path in one place students can revisit and defend.
Built for the methods that grade the making.
If your course ends with something students made and showed to someone real, ALLO fits. The canvas holds the work and the thinking behind it.
Project-based learning
Driving question at the top, sustained inquiry in the middle, public product at the end. The whole arc stays reviewable for students, teammates, and assessors.
Design thinking
Empathy research, ideation walls, prototypes, and test feedback stay next to the direction they produced, so convergence is visible instead of asserted.
Action learning
Real problems, real actions, honest reflection. Teams keep the problem, what they tried, and what they learned on one board the whole group can see.