Levels for sessions (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
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Dhaval F
Currently, a tutor can put this in the description. But it might be helpful to put this as a separate field. Possible use case - learner can filter sessions based on these levels.
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Fifi A
What is the current status of this suggestion after THREE years?
It doesn't seem FULLY implemented yet but idk about partial
Woody W
You know what, actually that is a very great idea, that way will be easier for people who want to find it faster.
Kate P
Back in the Coda days, we used to have Levels 1-4 for SAT prep sessions, with 1 being the most foundational level and 4 being the most advanced (based on Khan levels). Perhaps we could re-implement something like this?
Tarun G
Kate P: As a Coda days user, yes I fully agree. Either the levels you suggest, or at least high school or college listing will work. Khan Academy does something like it in the math courses, where there's a grade-level listing besides topic based math courses like calculus or statistics. But before these revived levels are implemented as a feature on the platform, is it possible to nudge tutors via the Tutor Learning modules to list this in the description?
Minakshi S
What about a tags that note "practice", "preparations", "study", "Q&A" instead (the topic can usually denote the level)?
Drew Bent
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Good idea. Need to see how important it is to work on now.
Tarun G
Drew Bent: Yeah, the idea sounds great, and it's worth considering implementing someday. But it needs to be seen in the light of more pressing improvements to the platorm. There are, for instance, requests for a Schoolhouse app, dark mode site, more certifiable courses, etc.
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Dhaval F
Inspiration behind this idea:
Some learners attend a session only to get more practice, while some are completely new to the topic.
Drew Bent
Interesting idea. Dhaval F how might we define these levels?
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Dhaval F
Drew Bent:
It is best to leave this to the tutors.
But something like below might work for Math topics.
Beginner: Introduction to a topic and very basic problems.
Intermediate: More involved problems.
Advanced: Problems that require knowledge of multiple topics at the same time.
Suryaansh C
Dhaval F: Maybe add something like 'prerequisites' rather than levels because the meaning of levels really depends from person to person.
Drew Bent
I like Suryaansh C's approach because it is more flexible and generalizable. The one downside is that it's not easily filterable and organized like Dhaval F's approach.
Here's a question for both of you: how important do you think these tags/prereq fields are at the current scale of SHW? Could a quick fix in the short term be to simply encourage tutors to list prereqs in their session descriptions?
Drew Bent
Also, we are working on a search feature that I think will also help here..
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Dhaval F
Drew Bent: Moderately important from my experience, but would love to here from others as well. A quick poll should give a better perspective.
Yes, prereqs in the description is the best bet for now.
Suryaansh C
Drew Bent: Well the importance of this and other user filtering features currently is not as much. However, I'd like to point out that users in end June were 16,108 and now they are about 17,352- that's a huge growth in just a month. Which brings me to the strong feeling/prediction that users will grow exponentially in just a few months so any change that impacts the user experience a lot, say UI change or even this feature has to be done thoughtfully.
Back to the point: If most users are there for temporary help, then just encouraging tutors would work. And if most users are actually active users, then I feel this or similar features hold more importance.
I said 'if' since we'll have to investigate that data. What I mean is that, you have to see what is the meaning of 17,352 users; does this mean 1700 active users or just 700 active users.
Minakshi S
Drew Bent: I think that if tutors are very intentional and specific with their descriptions that this feature is unnecessary (for the most time). Which means it's probably better to enforce/teach how to write a session description (give examples and templates).