Online courseware feature wish list
I'm teaching a (non-online) course in a few months, and I figure that as long as I'm preparing it, this is a good chance to try creating an online version.
Some features I'd like to have:
- Interface for students to formally submit deliverables (as opposed to just another forum)
- Forum where students can post questions and join discussion
- Ability to differentiate between students taking the class statically (can start whenever, no feedback) vs on a schedule (with others, with instructor feedback)
- Ability to livestream sessions
- Ability for students to comment on live sessions using text chat
- Ability for students to speak questions in live sessions using microphone
- Ability for students to screenshare to the group in a live session
- Ability for instructor to direct the audio and video that the group is seeing during live session
- Ability for instructor to control mouse and keyboard of a student temporarily, or to work in a shared environment during session
- Automatic transcription of recorded and live sessions (ideally human edited, but voice recognition alone is ok)
- Ability to form discussion sections by grouping students into subsets, in an organic way
- Ability to capture emails of students to be in touch with them independently of the courseware
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