Feedback, Ideas, and Troubleshooting

Hi, I'm one of the Co-Leads on the Blog Team. I've noticed that many of you are interested in writing unofficially for the Blog Team, which means you will have the chance to publish articles without being a Staff Writer. I’m excited to announce that this initiative will launch in June! Do any of you have ideas for an efficient way for the Blog Team to receive volunteer article submissions?

I hope that schoolhouse.world can expand to younger ages soon so younger children can learn from this website.

Could we have a dark mode?

I just came from the schoolhouse nexus which I thought was amazing. I learned so much in the Ted Talk category and I can't believe the feedback was free! I would love if another one was hosted for summer break!

I think it would be really beneficial to have a “save session” option, for when you are interested in a session but don’t want to sign up just yet. If you don’t sign up for the session, to find it again you may have to scroll through a bunch of other sessions to find the one you’re looking for, especially if it is a session in experimental or community.

Hello, I actually recently had a certification request rejected for this issue, and I wanted to explain my reasoning: For subjects such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even Calculus, I don't think it is appropriate to only allow tabs for Desmos/the Khan Academy test. My reasoning is as follows: The other way to certify for these subjects is to submit an AP/IB score. When you take the respective AP or IB exams for these subjects, you are provided a formula sheet (or for IB, a "Data Booklet") and other reference materials during testing, such as a periodic table or diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, when I certified through recording video submissions, my submission was flagged because I used an online periodic table and a College Board official formula sheet for the subject I was certifying in. This means that the criteria for judging AP score certifications, versus video certifications, is not the same; those who submitted an AP score were provided more reference materials. Additionally, memorizing formulas and constants is not realistic to real life application of these subjects. Having reference materials for formulas and the periodic table does not diminish a student's understanding of the subject, nor their ability to tutor it. Conversely, memorizing formulas or other reference materials does not imply a greater understanding of the subject. Not being allowed to use reference sheets for formulas implies that mastery of the subject is only demonstrated when the a person memorizes the formulas used to perform calculations. In real life, most professionals frequently reference online materials to confirm the formulas that they are using. Proposed solution: Extend the rules for subjects like the ones mentioned above to include the use of an official College Board formula sheet / IB data booklet, or have a Schoolhouse-approved data sheet where tutors can reference formulas/diagrams. Whoever reviews certifications can clearly see what tabs the student is navigating to, and can ascertain that said formula sheet is being used responsibly.

This just pop in my mind, but I find it helpful if we have all the sessions we are attending or hosting all organized in a monthly calendar instead of scrolling down from a list. Hosting and attending can be in different colors. We could still keep the long list but also have a better visual of it on a calendar.

To all of the community at Schoolhouse and to the Product Team, with this post I hope to explain about bringing a Foreign Language Subworld. Looking at Schoolhouse's article regarding creating new subworlds - https://schoolhouse.world/faq/en/article/what-subworlds-will-be-created-next-lchts5/ Let us address some of the things the product team should know about getting this subworld: Scoping: Interactive learning through speaking, listening, reading, writing, and practicing belongs in this subworld by learning new languages, becoming fluent in those languages, able to read, speak, and write in new languages. As there are thousands of languages spoken throughout the world (over 7000!), with Schoolhouse's diverse community, the community would teach a variety of languages able to allow this subworld to thrive. Additionally, a large percent of students (about 20% in the U.S.!) across the world take a foreign language classes and just like many other subworlds, like math and science, live tutoring and support for language questions and help wouldn't be a bad idea to add to the subworld. Currently, Enrichment is the hub for anyone wanting to learn a language and as enrichment is extremely diverse and contains a wide scope of things, filtering languages would clear up some space and better organize languages in Schoolhouse. A lecture-style learning without any speaking or interaction between the learner can't thrive in this subworld, as speaking is a primary part of becoming fluent in foreign languages. Often in many sessions, learners go about without any interaction. Is there significant demonstrated interest from across the community in having this subworld? There has been many posts gathering many votes across Schoolhouse Feedback & Ideas regarding this topic! I wanted to organize everything into one post the community can vote on and provide their input on! A large number of people have shown interest and are quite excited in partnering to leading this subworld to success. Right now, our community is primarily made up of English-speaking high school students taking the SAT. Does this subworld deepen the impact we can have on these students? According to the U.S. Department of Education as well as numerous other universities, learning a 2nd language can help improve your cognitive abilities, vocabulary, writing, and interpretation of sources, helping a lot with analytical and thinking questions given by the SAT. With considering the interactions aspect that especially language advocates for with different phonetics, and sounds, necessary for speaking in linguistics, a foreign language subworld will help build Schoolhouse to becoming a more impactful place through it's increase in interactions and help. Feel free to add more explanation and input regarding this topic!

Schoolhouse's lowest grade is Pre-Algebra but I think it should expanded to lower grades. Khan Academy has separate website for kids under 2nd grade. Schoolhouse should have the same for grades 5-8. It should be called Schoolhouse Jr.

I guess there should be frequent gifts etc given to tutors because they are working so hard. One thing I found us that the gifts are only available for tutors with in US. So I guess making it accessable for everyone would increase the chances for more tutors.