Germano K
The platform would opt for a light/dark mode option, and also be available for anyone to download on App Stores.
Michael G
Germano K Note that this specific feedback page is about subworlds. To make feature requests for other areas, you'd submit a new request at https://schoolhouse.world/feedback after searching to see if it had already been requested. In your case, dark mode and an app have already been submitted as new feature ideas. Consider commenting on and/or voting for https://schoolhouse.world/feedback/p/app-for-schoolhouseworld and https://schoolhouse.world/feedback/p/a-dark-mode
Michael G
(Second half of post)
- Subworld moderators would often create community events, or post problems of the week, or hold tournaments, or give shout outs, or similar, designed to help bring the community of that subworld together. Subworld moderators could also edit the home page for the subworld with useful information for tutors and learners. E.g. the Geometry subworld home page talked about Desmos, the Zoom whiteboard, geometric proofs, new tutor onboarding sessions that moderators offered (for Geometry, specifically), etc. I thought all of this was valuable to members of that subworld and offered a level of autonomy and creativity to moderators. That opportunity to demonstrate leadership as a subworld moderator I can see being particularly valuable to showcase on college applications and resumes and it just offered a nice way for those individuals to make a difference, and I'm unclear how they do that now without remaking community channels for all the subworlds we had before. And even then, I don't think just having a new channel for a subject would offer all of the same functionality I've listed or the same feeling of autonomy (for moderators) and community (for moderators, tutors, and learners).
- Putting myself in the position of a learner, if I'm taking a class in Algebra 2, it was easy to join the Algebra 2 subworld and focus all of my attention in that subworld and see what is taking place there. I could participate in questions of the week, see upcoming sessions, and take steps to become part of that community. Now I don't really have a home page anymore.
At the moment, the new layout (for me it's toggled back and forth today between the new and old layout) leaves me with a number of questions. Those may all get answered in time. At the moment, there seems to be a gap between the experience offered by community channels (just Random and Tutors as I post this) and the experience offered by subworlds, and I do have concerns about the experiences that it seems we'll be losing.
Michael G
(First half of post - splitting into two posts due to 2500 character limits on comments)
Although I'm voting for this, I don't know yet if my view is simply that "subworlds were way better" but I do think subworlds provided value to me in a number of ways and it is unclear to me how or if community channels will serve a similar function. For example:
- When I have had questions about a session I was interested in hosting for a subject, I reached out to subworld moderators to share my thoughts and get their expert (or at least very knowledgeable about the Schoolhouse platform and the subject they moderated) opinions.
- When a certification request for a subject had taken more than 14 days, I reached out to subworld moderators for that subject to check on the status, after which the certification request was quickly reviewed.
- As I understand it, community channels can be created on various topics, conceivably even 1-to-1 with the subworlds we had before (though that seems unlikely). But until those channels exist, I don't know where to go with questions like the ones I've listed above. The Tutors channel in the Community area seems far more generic than I'd be interested in. E.g. I'd rather talk to an expert in Computer Science or Algebra 2 on questions I may have on hosting sessions on those subjects, or best practices for those subjects, and I don't see that there's a way for me to have these discussions now in as direct a way as I could before.
Akshit D
Hey Roman! I'm curious what are things you think are challenging about finding what you need in the new version of the site. We'd love to improve on it.