DBQ Online
Overview
- Overview
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DBQ Online is the digital delivery platform for The DBQ Project’s inquiry-based social-studies curriculum. Students analyze sequenced documents, discuss competing evidence, organize claims, and write supported arguments while teachers use scaffolds and rubrics. Annotations, source selections, and drafts show how an argument develops. Teachers connect those artifacts with rubric feedback and course expectations when reviewing the student’s use of evidence.
Features
- Features
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Audience and instructional role
Grades / learners:
upper-elementary through high-school students learning history and civics through evidence
Primary users:
social-studies teachers, students, literacy staff, and curriculum leaders
Learning focus:
primary-source analysis, historical reasoning, argument writing, and document-based questions — the digital delivery platform for The DBQ Project’s inquiry-based social-studies curriculum
How it supports learning
- Students analyze sequenced documents, discuss competing evidence, organize claims, and write supported arguments while teachers use scaffolds and rubrics.
- Teachers should connect use to explicit learning goals and inspect student work rather than rely on completion or engagement alone.
Implementation and instructional decisions
- Confirm which Mini-Q, DBQ, civics, or history programs and grade bands are licensed; platform access is only one part of the instructional model.
- Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the continuing role of teacher judgment.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
N/A
DBQ Online Privacy Policy:
https://www.dbqproject.com/dbq-online/dbq-online-privacy-policy/
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
No records found in SDPC Registry
Company News
- Company News
Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
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Quick Start Guide
- Quick Start Guide
DBQ Online takes The DBQ Project to a whole new level. Teachers and students have the tools to read and annotate documents, take notes, organize or “bucket” evidence, and write papers in our online environment. That’s just the beginning.
DBQ Online takes The DBQ Project to a whole new level. Teachers and students have the tools to read and annotate documents, take notes, organize or “bucket” evidence, and write papers in our online environment. That’s just the beginning.
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