The main metric for any educational project is retention (learner engagement). It is extremely important to count how much time a user spends on the course pages, how often he/she returns, and how he/she interacts with the learning material. Comments are one of the most important markers of course effectiveness.
With a sophisticated notification system (web-push, email, and title-page notifications), Tolstoy Comments will help bring users back. If you reply to a student in the comments or write a private message, there's an 85% chance they'll see it. This rate is about 3.5 times higher than the competition.
The unique Tolstoy Comments rating system will create competition among students. You know how important it is to compare yourself to your fellow students, right?
Tolstoy Comments over a hundred rewards (badges) for different types of activity. How does it work? Users write comments, rate other people's posts, earn pluses, and for this they get badges of different prestige in their profile. Notifications of new awards are added to the general notification feed, and also come to the e-mail specified during registration.
On the PRO plan you can customize badges to suit your needs. For example, how this did 2x2tv.ru
Educational projects often use gamification to find volunteers or the same automation of the competition process.
For example, in the Siberian Wellness marathon from Siberian Health, presenters motivated students with prizes for collected badges in the chat room. For example, the student who earned the highest rating at the end of the course won a trip to Paris. There were a bunch of other small prizes for badges earned. This served as a good motivation to communicate around the lessons taken. In 2 months of the marathon, 1500 students wrote 200,000 comments. The retention rate was fantastic. The percentage of people completing the course is many times higher than usual.
Promise your students who earn the Tolstoy badge a free info course. You need to write 1000 comments to earn it. It costs you nothing, and the atmosphere at the marathon can change dramatically. Everyone wants to be excellent students, gold medalists. Tolstoy Comments, in turn, automates the whole routine of counting ratings and messages.
Don't forget to answer important student questions, support them, and ask for feedback. For example, the host of the HYLS marathon, Maxim Dorofeev, regularly interacts with students, and ends each of his posts with a call to connect.
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Modern chats
Tolstoy Comments - an easy-to-use chat on all devices. It looks great on mobiles, supports all kinds of media: photo galleries, videos and gifs. Chats do not hang even with several thousand messages in a thread and work incredibly fast. In addition to group chats, there is an opportunity to write private messages.
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Dynamic user ratings
Rating is the level of popularity of the website's commentators. To be at the top of the rankings, you need to write witty, interesting and a lot. Our mission is to regain the reputation on the Internet.
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Badges/awards
It seems that we were the first to come up with the idea of rewarding users for comments. There are more than 150 badges in the system to reward users for different types of activity. For example, if you have written the best comment in a thread, you get a badge. Some of the awards are given automatically, some are given by moderators. You can create author's sets of awards for your users.
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Notifications
Tolstoy Comments knows how to bring users back to your site with push notifications and e-mail updates. Users will never miss replies to their comments, private messages, new ratings and awards.
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Private messages
Users can send private messages to each other. As the administrator of the resource, it will be easier for you to keep in touch with commenters.
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