Forum Suggestions

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).

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.

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.

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.

On ALF Dashboard, have office hours translated into local time for students OR add office hours for current professors to the academic Google Calendar.

It would help me keep track of my progress as I prepare for class if there were checkboxes I could use when I’d completed a reading, or formulated an adequate response to a study guide question, or completed my pre class work. It would be especially effective if there were some addition indication that all the boxes have been checked (the background color could change, for instance, but I’ll leave the specifics alone). I personally would find this feature immensely useful. I often scan the Before Class section multiple times to ensure I’ve not overlooked any assigned reading or pre-class work. I could do this much more efficiently and reliably if I were able to check off Before Class items as I complete them. Beyond being a simple way to for students to keep themselves accountable with visual tools, it would be a valuable source of data for the AT to better understand when and how students use preparatory resources. To be clear, I'm proposing a completely optional mechanism. There need not be any academic penalty associated with not using it. It is simply a checklist integrated into the platform, so I don’t have to make one for myself every time I prepare for class.

Like ManageBec :)

LaTeX and markdown support for poll answers should allow for formatting without too much overhead while adding readability to poll answers.

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 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.