We have observed that some students use the feature to highlight paragraphs or sentences and mark them with an emoji for easier reference later on. This is evident from the image shared below:
The goal of this issue is to enhance this user experience and provide students with a more convenient way to tag text. This task is largely open to creative solutions from the developer. One suggestion from David:
Because I think it will be relatively easy, I want to explore the
following: when a student highlights a selection, they get the usual
commenting UI in the sidebar, but also a dropdown appears right next to
the highlight to let them immediately choose one or more emoji, and
submit, without writing a comment at all. In case they just want to tag
that something is confusing, important, interesting.
It's important to consider during the design process that the current emoji comments are not found to be valuable by all students (from interviewing students). However, they do hold value for the student who made them and, in some cases, for the instructors. Therefore, the new design should cater to these diverse user preferences and behaviors.
We have observed that some students use the feature to highlight paragraphs or sentences and mark them with an emoji for easier reference later on. This is evident from the image shared below:
The goal of this issue is to enhance this user experience and provide students with a more convenient way to tag text. This task is largely open to creative solutions from the developer. One suggestion from David:
It's important to consider during the design process that the current emoji comments are not found to be valuable by all students (from interviewing students). However, they do hold value for the student who made them and, in some cases, for the instructors. Therefore, the new design should cater to these diverse user preferences and behaviors.