What would you like to see on BOS?

[BlackDragon]

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When are the 'Exam Thoughts 2006' shortcuts going to leave the start page? Its already feb and people can still access them easily without them being on the front page.

[sladehk]

Originally Posted by Sparcod

-Link to a "site of the day". Just plainly a good site for HSC students or anything that concerns people of our age group such as driving or whatever.

-"Quote of the day" or "fact of the day" or "joke of the day" (or week)

-Weekly or daily welcoming messages rather than the boring HSC is Over or Seasons greetings. How about this "Roger Federer wins Aust. Open" or "so and so wins the NSW state elections" At least the home page will be a lot more interesting.

i reckon that should be optional like.. up to the user

also i think there should be an option for like low-def users who dun want all this extra stuff like ppl with extra sized sigs/ avatars so they can turn off the stuff and view text, formatting and smileys. i guess it also helps ppl out there with 56k or ppl who have slow comps and love opening 1000000000 tabs of BoS at teh same time (like me =( )

[tennille]

There is an option to turn off images, avatars and signatures, which is under quicklinks --> edit options.

[dion7789]

I defintely think more emphasis on uni notes/forums like there are for hsc/vce. Would be very useful for us new uni students who have been helped by BoS over years

[tennille]

Originally Posted by jhakka

Uni notes would be a problem due to the fact that units of study change from year to year, and there are MASSIVE plagiarism issues surrounding it (which you would know if you've been at uni for more than a week). Generally if you attend lectures, tutes/labs/pracs/seminars and do your readings you should be fine.

I'm sure uni notes have been raised before and have been rejected for these reasons.

Also, subjects learnt at one uni may be completely different to another uni.

[Sparcod]

-"HSC Graduation year" should have a smaller year range. It annoys me that heaps of people put either 1998 or 2010 just for the fun of it. Instead, why not have pre-2000 and post-2009 instead.

-As for the tutoring forum, as soon as someone makes a new thread, it has to be automatically locked so that no one can bump it. Though they can edit.

-Diverse range of theme colours or layouts that we can choose from User CP

-Give a friendly invite. back for those who haven't been here for over 2 years. There are lots of them from the good old days.

-More "accurate" time/date of posts, please.

Originally Posted by Tennille

Also, subjects learnt at one uni may be completely different to another uni.

That sucks. I thought that something like Econ1001 was the same for everyone regardless of uni.

[Iheartpaulfrank]

More smileys!!

[AsyLum]

Originally Posted by Musk

i thought of a good idea getting teachers on the forum for the hsc part of it to answer questions for like one hr a week or something, like something small. it would bring popularity and respect to both teachers and students particularly with topics that arnt easy to understand(4u maths, physics, chem and other hard subjects)

The problem with this is that we don't want to inundate teachers during unpaid hours when they're already busy enough. I think the current system whereby they pick when they want to interject or add to the discussion is probably better for them.

[jhakka]

Originally Posted by Sparcod

-As for the tutoring forum, as soon as someone makes a new thread, it has to be automatically locked so that no one can bump it. Though they can edit.

A system where one can post a thread but where replies are disabled would probably work better.

Originally Posted by dion7789

I defintely think more emphasis on uni notes/forums like there are for hsc/vce. Would be very useful for us new uni students who have been helped by BoS over years

PLAGIARISM ISSUES. Is anyone else aware of the fact that the unis have software to check for plagiarism? Do you realise that using non-acknowledged sources is plagiarism and carries heavy penalties? To have a uni notes section would give BOS a reputation of encouraging plagiarism - a reputation that we already do have in some areas. We have been referred in the past (by schools and in the media) as a cheat site or a "bogus Board of Studies" website. We don't want to encourage this reputation by entering an area where plagiarism is a massive, massive issue.

[kami]

I'd like to see the quick quote function enabled.

And on the uni notes thing, it just seems way easier to have discussion threads in the forums ... as notes just seem kinda pointless since we can't really submit summaries, assignments or past exams to the bos notes server, so what would even end up in there?

[tennille]

Do you mean have the quote function enabled when you "quick reply", because there is an option that allows you to quote?

[kami]

Originally Posted by Tennille

Do you mean have the quote function enabled when you "quick reply", because there is an option that allows you to quote?

In some other forums they a little box at the bottom right of each post, and you can click them so that you can accumulate several quotes into your reply without having to go back and copy paste them all into your post. For example, I could 'quick quote' your post and the three above it, and then when I hit 'Post Reply' they would all be quoted.

I know this would be massively useful in NCAP where things can get a bit convoluted, as well as some of the faster threads in NS where there are several conversations going on at once.

[jhakka]

Ah, Quick Quote was a great feature. But might be a bit difficult to implement with the "click before 'Quick Reply'" thing we have going.

[Nebuchanezzar]

MORE USELESS SMILIES!

[sladehk]

if plaigarism is an issue. perhaps a wiki approach to uni subjects can be introduced. i dunno if its too much of an undertaking but a WikiUni thing would be revolutional (if that's a word =P ) where students can add/change stuff, mods/admins can lock stuff and there are bots running to stop stupid ppl messing about with it