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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.

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.

description: https://help.minervaproject.com/en/articles/5687853-using-the-metrics-dashboard proposal: The feature is currently only available to "instructors and program administrators". It would be useful for students to review their personal statistics for talk time, window focus, and other class engagement metrics as tools for self-reflection and motivation.

CTRL is a very useful button, but sometimes during zooming of a website, coping and pasting it enables mic, even it is unwanted. There should a setting which makes us able to choose a different key for push-to-talk.

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.

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.

People have different reading speeds, and knowing the total word count would be really helpful for calculating the time it takes us to complete the pre-class readings. As an extra, if we could in some way set our reading speed in wpm, Forum could tell us an approximate time for each reading and in total.

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 would be very useful if we could sort our HC scores in descending/ascending order both by class and overall in the HC Index so that we can actively track what skills we need to improve. It is a bit difficult now to look through all of them, especially because the scores are very similar.

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.