Please enter your ideas for improving GradShare portal. This is the place to voice your valuable opinions.
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7 votes
Let people add their own tags
The site already has some good tags on it that you can use to describe a question but it should be possible for any user to add their own tag.
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6 votes
Search for topics
Might not matter as much right now, but once there are enough posts the ability to search for previous questions/answers will prevent them from being continuously duplicated. It would also be great if the search allowed you to select the areas you were interested in.
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6 votes
add additional degree programs
Status: plannedWe know that degree programs are always changing. Go ahead and add a comment here if there's a program you'd like us to add.
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5 votes
Appearance and menu hierarchy
The appearance of the website is nice and clean. Some photographs of
Univerisity campus, young students presenting conference
posters/talks, graduation ceremonies etc. would make it more appealing
and will make the objective of the website more clear.It took me some time to get used to the menu... more
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5 votes
RSS feeds of different topics or tracked questions
I would like to be able to read new questions (either all, or by topic) or tracked questions through an Atom or RSS feed, because otherwise I might forget to come back to this site to answer questions! Or, if not possible, maybe a daily email summary of things I am tracking.
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4 votes
I would like a way to view all unanswered questions among all sections (e.g. research, teaching, etc
I don't ask many questions, but I really enjoy answering them. It would be nice if there were some way to view all unanswered questions instead of having to move between sections. A bonus would be a user set threshold (e.g. all with fewer than 2 or 3 answers); generally I accept that if a questio... more
Status: under reviewOne way to view the recent questions is to use the GradShare widget. You can find it at http://www.gradshare.com/widget.html
Add it to iGoogle, Netvibes, or any widget service to get regular updates
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3 votes
Please don't email passwords in clear text
The registration email currently sends passwords back in the clear when asking the user to confirm their email address. That is a dangerous practice.
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3 votes
enhanced profiles - links to online presence, etc.
In their profile people should be able to add links to their blog, their ePortfolio, social network site, etc, page on their grad program's website, etc.
Status: startedYou can now link your GradShare account to Facebook and you can edit your profile to include information about your research interest or other relevant websites.
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3 votes
Home Page
I'd like to have a real home page, where it shows me questions I am tracking, a spot to ask questions, a spot where new questions pop up, and any of the new features that you are looking to make available
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2 votes
groups
Can we set up social networks within GradShare of UK only students or DS/MIS only students?
Status: under reviewWhile the GradShare community is in it's early stages, we'd like to encourage discussion with the community at-large. We are evaluating new features for creating your own communities for future updates. Let us know if this feature is important to you by voting for this idea.
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2 votes
Let users search other users.
It would be great if we could actually see who else was using, perhaps how many users were logged in at a given time, and especially who else was registered within our discipline or research areas.
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2 votes
my department is not on the pulldown list?
please add city and regional planning. it looks like this is a common compaint, so why not allow us to enter it in ourselves?
Status: plannedGood idea, we'll add a form to submit your department if it isn't listed.
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1 votes
