more features
planned
Robert Gould
Having been able to use this for another quarter, and gotten mostly good results, there are still a few features that I think are needed in order to make this fully functional. First, students should be automatically subscribed to the feed with an opt-out. It is surprisingly difficult to inform students of the existence of a website like CampusWire. I mention it in the syllabus, I mention it in class, I send out an email announcement. And yet still, at the end of the quarter, I learn of students who didn't know of its existence. Auto-subscribe will help. Second, it's very difficult to find answers and comments within replies. The email notification is nice, but when I go onto the page and see that I have no unanswered questions, I often think I'm done. Anything that would help to more easily navigate the threads within a question and would bring them to the top so it is easier to see which threads have new posts would be very helpful.
Duong Nguyen
planned
Tade Oyerinde
in progress
Tade Oyerinde
Thanks Robert Gould for the feedback. Super useful.
As for #1 -- if you invite all of your students at the beginning of Quarter, they'll be automatically "subscribed" to Campuswire such that they'll get email notifications whenever you, or TAs, post on Campuswire. We find that classes in which the professors actually invite their students (by simply pasting a list of all of their email addresses into the "invite box") have higher levels of activity and engagement.
Re: the second issue -- makes total sense and we're currently working on a fix which will be available ahead of next Quarter.
Thanks so much for the feedback!