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David Doty
Hopefully this is an obvious implication, but endorsement from any course staff (instructor or TA) would also be useful.
When I've used Piazza, I use number of endorsed answers as a way to assign extra credit, and this is the main thing I don't see how to do in Campuswire yet (making me hesitant about whether I want to switch).
There's already a way to "upvote" answers, so hopefully it's easy to use that feature and simply pull out which votes came from a course staff member. (But I would not want to count the total number of votes within an answer, because if three course staff vote on one answer, I would only want to assign one credit for the answer, not three.)
Duong Nguyen
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Duong Nguyen
Andrew G Thanks for the suggestion Andrew. This makes sense. We'll add it to our roadmap.
kevin destin
Duong Nguyen: Is there an ETA on this? Endorsement from TAs is really helpful when managing large classes.
Duong Nguyen
kevin destin: Hi Kevin, we are bumping this up on our list of priorities. I agree. This is something very important to have in big classes. We'll make sure this get deployed within the next month or two.
David Doty
Duong Nguyen: Should I assume this has not yet been implemented? I don't see anything new in the interface that appears to support it.
Even something this simple would be helpful: when creating the CSV file downloaded in response to clicking on "Download class rep CSV", make a column for each course staff member that counts how many upvotes were recorded by each.
That way we can process this file on our own to get some sense of how many responses were officially endorsed by course staff.
Of course, even better would be a special button for endorsements by course staff, which can only be pressed once by any of the staff. This way, multiple course staff members can't give more than one endorsement to a single response.
David Doty
I'm disappointed to see this feature remains unimplemented. I use the course discussion board to assign extra credit incentivizing students to answer each others' questions, and I need a way to keep track of which students were actually helpful. This is why I'll be switching back to Piazza for Fall 2021.
Piazza's system for tracking endorsement of student answers by instructors and TAs is much more transparent than Campuswire's. Last time I taught using Campuswire, I had a student shoot up in the Campuswire "reputation" ranking simply for posting a several inappropriate questions publicly asking me to boost his grade. Many students who were actually helpful in answering questions ended up below him in the reputation points.
I might be content to stick with Campuswire's mysterious reputation system if it somehow appeared to track reality more closely, but incidents like this mean I cannot use it for giving out extra credit fairly.