Comments on: Feature Requests

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:22:16 +0000

I’d like to see a PDF, .doc, .rtf, e-mail, post to X website, etc.

The option of saving period will be great. I could use this frequently if the transcript option was in place.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:31:55 +0000

This is a great tool. I would like to use in my class. I can copy and paste into a word document right now but with constant legal pressure I would feel more comfortable with the ability to print or get to clipboard easily. And absolutely have password protection.

By: James

James — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:08:23 +0000

Hey Rob,

Unfortunately, no. SMS short codes are prohibitively expensive, but that’s only part of the issue. TodaysMeet is designed to provide two-way communication, and doing that via SMS could cause someone to receive (and pay for) hundreds of text messages. That’s not a very good way of interacting with the room.

James

By: Rob Fisher

Rob Fisher — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:19:47 +0000

can I send a txt message from my cellphone directly to todaysmeeting room not through twitter? ie. using sms

By: jdornberg

jdornberg — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:45:05 +0000

Any chance of integrating voting options like SAPweb or PollEverywhere?

By: Par Kristoffersson

Par Kristoffersson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:41:13 +0000

Good morning,
Thanks for providing a great tool for all if us, but something happened:- I can´t write in swedish anymore.

By: Frank DuRoss

Frank DuRoss — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:25:33 +0000

I just used Todaysmeet.com in my classroom for the first time. It worked wonderfully, my students enjoyed it and were very engaged.

I would also put a vote in for a transcript, the format is unimportant, but I need to have a record of the conversation to use in assessing my students.

Great job! Keep up the good work.

By: Adrianne

Adrianne — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:49:13 +0000

Hey yeah I think that these are great ideas (ability to transcript and password protecting). I would like to use this site as a part of my biology class and the ability to obtain a transcript of the convo would be very helpful in assigning grades after the fact, especially if there are disputes over the amount of times someone responded or if someone says something inappropriate. I also agree that password protecting would be useful to keeping out people who aren’t supposed to be there.

However don’t look for any suggestions from me on how to actually do this since I’m not very familiar with the background knowledge to know what to do!

Good luck and thanks for the great site

By: Chris Moore

Chris Moore — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:08:09 +0000

We’d love a way to password protect our rooms. We give the link on our 5th grade classroom blog, so folks can come to our room – the problem is that anyone who reads our blog has access to our rooms. This can be nice, but it can also cause problems. We could give a link on the blog, and distribute the password to our students in the classroom. Thanks!

By: James

James — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:33:47 +0000

Copy to Clipboard is not trivial to implement. For security reasons, there are obstacles to accessing the clipboard from JavaScript. Imagine if any random website could read or write to your clipboard. Kind of scary! (It’s worth noting that it is relatively easy in Internet Explorer. Like I said, scary!) Most sites that have this feature provide it through Flash, and only copy plain text, like from a form field.

Password protected rooms are on my roadmap, but there is some underlying platform work that needs to happen first. Hopefully that platform work will make it easier to implement new features than it is right now. Password protection was something I intended from the beginning, but there have been issues with implementing it.

PDF downloads are something I would love to do but there will have to be some load testing first. I don’t want to add an extremely useful feature and then have to remove it as usage increases. Conceptually, it’s easy enough to do using LaTeX–finally something from my math degree is useful! But practically I’ll need to see where we are performance-wise.