Feature Request

There absolutely needs to be a waiting room feature. I need to know when my students are in the waiting room instead of just waiting and waiting and waiting for the notification to pop up on my end. I have back to back classes and I need to be able to end class with one student and then go to the waiting room and allow another student to come into class. Also, there has been MULTIPLE issues with the pop up not actually popping up for me to allow a student into the classroom. This is a true problem and teachers need access to see who is in their waiting room and allow them into the room.

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I know it's a simple thing and I shouldn't have forgotten today, but I did ... I didn't click on 'invite student', and my student was in the waiting room for 20 minutes! (In my defense, she was 15 minutes late, but still ...) Could we please have a notification sent when a student is the waiting room? Thanks so much!

I really like Koala Go, but I’m missing some useful tools from Zoom, such as annotation tools during screen sharing, breakout rooms, noise cancellation, etc. I’ve also experienced some issues with video stability, and some students are frequently kicked out or face video/audio problems. In my experience, Zoom tends to have fewer stability issues and works better across a wider range of devices and internet speeds. It would be great if there were a way to create a Koala Go–Zoom integration, allowing us to use Zoom while incorporating key features from Koala—especially the playground and possibly the co-browser. I believe this could be a more cost-effective and quicker way to address some of the challenges that have been discussed here. Thanks!

Hi there, would it be possible to change the student permissions on a student's portfolio, before the student joins the class? I don't want to spend time in class to change permissions and waste some of our valuable time on admin. Thanks

I have some lengthy audio tracks which are part of a coursebook I upload as a PDF. Usually I would pause after each section to allow the student to answer each part. It would be great to be able to pause audio files embedded in sticky notes.

Can teachers have control over deleting (or hiding) stories so that the portal can be changed to make it look fresh? Can teachers set their own pricing? Can the stories approval process be stream-lined so that approval can become quicker? Is there a way to allow any teacher (not just Koala teachers) to subscribe in order to bring students into the class with them eg multi-player, so that stories can be marketed on platforms such as Teachers Pay Teachers? Can we have a contact teacher button so that parents can contact us from the Portal about tutoring?

Some of my students in China cannot see the co-broswer or at least not without a considerable delay. Screensharing works fine for these students, however. Can you also, please, add annotations (drawing and typing) and a reward button to the screenshare feature? THANK YOU!

My students love to play hide and seek in the playground. The name over the avatar's head stops them from doing so. Please add a switch to turn the names on or off. Thank you!

A door in the playground that will transport you to another part of the playground, a separate mini playground or even another existing playground (like how you can create a link in a powerpoint to open another powerpoint). This would be useful when building, if you find you need extra room but don't have the physical space, you can just hop to a new area, and therefore you don't have to build up or dig down to create the space. It would also be useful if you want different settings in parts of your playground, for example, night in one part but day in the rest. It would also be useful if you find that your student needs to review something, or do a little more work on something, they could just hop to the review section, and therefore not every student has to do the review if they don't need to. I can think of several examples in my recent pgs when this feature would have been useful.