Forum Suggestions

Professors understandably have a lot of trouble with a lot of names, and even if it could be solved by people repeatedly correcting the professors, a) not everyone feels comfortable doing so and b) it can often feel disruptive of class to, after every time the professor says your name, correct his/her pronunciation. The point is that for whatever reason many professors have trouble pronouncing the names of many students. Adding a section on each student's Platform profile (or somewhere visible to classmates & professors) for students to write out phonetically the pronunciation of their name could help solve this problem.

Disable or warn users when they accidentally trigger to go to previous control (with gesture or keyboards), especially when on browsers.

It would be easier to access office hours if they are on the course's homepage in the seminar. That way, one wouldn't have to search it through the hub.

Often the study guide offers important information about how to engage with the class readings, and is usually the section you should be reading first. However, having the Readings at the top of the page makes it seem like you should read them before the study guide, which has caused my and others confusion many times

Prof. used the timer for our eye rest break but when the timer ended there was no alert for indicating students and profs to return

TeX lets you format mathematical statements so that they're way more readable and less confusing. It's similar to the equation editor/formatter/inserter in Google Docs and Microsoft Word. It's just a bit confusing to read things like Nt = Nt-1 + rNt-1(1 - Nt-1/K).

Love the new pre-class workbook feature, but I have a small laptop and the workbook is embedded on just part of the screen, so it's really small and takes a lot of scrolling to fill in. I would be awesome if we can pop it out into a new tab similar to how we can pop out the workbooks during class. This would also allow us to more easily open the workbook to have open once we enter the class.

Someones the professors say that they are going to close the poll but it is unclear if it will be in 10 or 40 seconds. Sometimes we haven't finished our answer and wonder if we will be able to finish our sentence or if we just have to stop and find a way to close the idea immediately. Also, sometimes professors simply end the poll without warning, and responses are submitted incomplete. Let the professor have a button to click when they want only 30 more seconds and show this timer to help the students finalize their submission.

There's a moment when the students were sharing their personal stories and we really wanted to show our empathy but the Minerva forum does not have a heart/hug reaction yet. I believe it would be nice to use shift+7 for this reaction because then the virtual interaction can be more emotionally engaging and personal.

As a students at Minerva we have the access to a huge amount of feedback. The current notification system of receiving an email each time an assignment or class is graded doesn't allow us to keep track of which things we have viewed and which we haven't. I think it would be extremely helpful if we received notifications directly on the dashboard that not only notifies us when classes and assignments have been graded, but also allows us to see which of these we have already viewed. Having a 'viewed' stamp next to the status of a class or assignment's 'graded' stamp once the student has actually opened in order to see the feedback would allow us to keep track of when there are things we still need to examine.