One other thing mystifies me about EdX. - No profiles for students. - No ways for students to create a human-readable screen name. - No way for students to follow each other. Short of having a groups tool, which seems to be in development, students could at least follow specific peers and filter discussions for their posts.
There seems to be no idea in designing EdX that people would want to know each other and want persistent connections: in a word, relationships. "Following" is not an unusual or new web feature/behavior. It's pretty much the basis of social media (subscription). I can follow a discussion thread in EdX, but not a person. (a) Why? (b) When? Finally, I must say: the cohorts in the course I'm teaching don't work. I can't read the work of the verified learners, and I can't reasonably find 60 people one at a time. Is this a bug? What do I do when documented features simply don't work? --Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/47024a1d-b935-4cab-b8fd-15577b8783c2%40googlegroups.com.
