Forum Suggestions

It would be nice to be able access own HC and LO grades through API or at least csv export. It is better for keeping the track about the HC and LO grades, transfers, and where we can improve. There is API for calendar, why not for grades too?

It is very difficult to diagram ideas or shapes on the whiteboard. It would be very helpful if the whiteboard had basic line, arrow, square, circle, shapes which could be used quickly and neatly. This would improve class a TON! (**alsoa text/typing tool, but a different post says that is planned).

Currently, toggling "blind grading" hides the profile photo and name, but otherwise everything stays the same. This opens the door to a few different biases in grading. First, with polls, you see the first few students' identities before you can toggle the "blind grading" tab. Additionally, after many classes, it's possible subconsciously recognize the first and last few students and develop a bias around their answers. Finally, it's possible that graders have a different level of scrutiny whether they are grading the first, tenth, or fifteenth answer. Having students always in the same order means that the same students would always have the same consequences of this bias. These are all minimal, and there are certainly strategies graders can independently employ to avoid these biases. Nevertheless, shuffling students would eliminate these biases completely. This is especially important considering polls are often graded by TAs, who are students themselves and not as practiced with reducing personal bias in grading.

extend the ‘next class’ table, show everything you need to do for next day/week. so student could save a ton of time clicking and looking for everything they need to read by jump between different tabs/sections while ALF are constantly little bit, only a little bit, buggy. actually it also reduces the request student send to the server and may reduces server load.

LaTex and markdown options for students in workbook books will improve the readability of student work and encourage them to learn professional tools and communication skills in CS/STEM fields.

Exactly what it sounds like. You're in class, have to pop open a completely different tab to search an LO/HC. The process is messy. Being able to do this in-house during classes in a sidebar? Nice.

I currently have at least one student who has added pronouns to their last name in Forum and that works really well because when I hover over their name I can immediately see their preferred pronoun without having to rely on chat or rosters somewhere. I’d be in favor of inviting students who would like to do this to do so. It’s also become standard in my zoom meetings with students at other colleges (where they add their pronouns to their name). My own experience is that this has become an especially important issue for many students and finding a way to make it an option seems ideal. At least some colleges are also creating a column in a registrar class roster where students can write their pronouns as an option, but those are less helpful to me in the moment while teaching.

When people type in class polls and use control to delete an entire word or sentence, their mic turns on, creating background noise for others in the classroom. Might be nice to turn off this feature when people are editing their class polls.

It would be nice if we could add extra code cells to forum code docs for pre-class work and for when we are comparing PCW in breakouts and we all have to paste code. Pasting everything in the same cell is usually very inconvenient as we all have to comment out code/rename functions to see how the different codes work - having the option to put it in different code cells would make these breakouts much more efficient.

It would be great to be able to "like" or somehow recognize others' answers to polls. When professors post everyone's responses to a poll for discussion, I often find the urge to like/upvote particular answers to show the writer that I agreed with, learned from, or just generally appreciated the response.