These methods assess the process. Most tools keep only the final file.
Project-based learning, design thinking, and action learning ask students to investigate, try, receive feedback, revise, and reflect. A submission box sees the end and loses most of what happened before it.
Sustained inquiry stays visible.
Research, sources, screenshots, interviews, field notes, and questions accumulate on the canvas as the project develops instead of remaining in personal folders.
Critique and revision stay connected.
Feedback sits beside the draft it refers to, and the next version can sit beside the previous attempt. Students can see and explain what changed.
Reflection has something concrete to point to.
Reflection becomes more specific when students can refer to the actual attempt, comment, revision, and choice instead of writing from memory.
The LMS runs the course. ALLO shows the learning as it happens.
Use the LMS for enrollment, announcements, grades, deadlines, and official course material.
Use ALLO when students need to collect sources, compare ideas, build shared work, receive feedback, and present the process together.
From the driving question to the public product.
A real project leaves a trail: the question, research, early ideas, failed attempts, critique, revisions, and final work. ALLO keeps that arc visible on one canvas, so the outcome can be understood through the thinking that produced it.
Run the studio wall, not a file exchange.
Design thinking moves through empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. Each stage creates material that needs to be compared and connected. ALLO gives the class a shared surface where ideas can multiply, move, 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, Blackboard, or your campus platform for official administration. Use ALLO for the visual and collaborative work those systems are not designed to show.
Students should be able to return to the path, not only the final file.
A useful portfolio shows more than polish. It shows the attempts, feedback, changes, and learning between them. ALLO keeps that path available for students, teammates, instructors, and assessors to revisit.
Built for methods that grade the making.
When a course asks students to make something for a real audience, the process deserves a place alongside the result.
Project-based learning
Put the driving question first, sustained inquiry through the middle, and the public product at the end. Students and assessors can follow the full arc.
Design thinking
Keep empathy research, ideas, prototypes, and testing feedback beside the directions they produced, so convergence can be seen rather than merely claimed.
Action learning
Keep the real problem, the action taken, the result, and the reflection visible to the whole team as the cycle repeats.