In the days of Gmail, when you can't got three seconds without your email draft being saved, how hard can it be to have Learning Suite save your work as you go?

Even if that is for some reason too complicated, couldn't we at least add a save button? I've had Learning Suite lose my work 4 times now when I click submit. Do you know how frustrating that is on a short answer quiz? It is possibly the most demoralizing feeling one could have, next to the emotions I felt when waking up this morning and seeing the ground covered in snow.

Today, I filled out a questionnaire about one of my classes, giving my honest and thoughtful feedback. When I clicked submit, Learning Suite deleted all of my work, and I had very little time left (it was a timed exam), not to mention the feeling of indifference after my work was deleted (whose to say that wouldn't happen again?), so for all of the questions I submitted, "Learning Suite ate my responses, and I don't have the time or energy to redo this quiz." How is my professor going to feel when he could have gotten some honest, helpful feedback about his class, and instead it's Learning Suite's fault that he is deprived of that? What if that happens to everyone? Then he'll have wasted our time, as well as his. Even worse is when this happens on exams that affect our grades. It causes frustration from the students and professors, not to mention much wasted time. This problem needs to be fixed.

Where is the save button? Can we please get that added? Or better yet, pull a Gmail and auto save your work? I know I'm not the only one that has lost their work due to this issue.

Small, but
(1) for those that have these items, it would probably be a blessing to not need to hit 7 days every time (making it a persistent changed setting would also change it for this group), but
(2) for those who don't regularly have Saturday items so it's more of a surprise (so they probably won't have changed the setting out of a desire to keep screen real estate).

The notification could just be a small red exclamation point or something similar on the right side of the screen at the top of the calendar. Hovering would have a small 'tooltip' ("Click to show items on Saturday and/or Sunday that are not currently showing") and Clicking would expand the calendar to show the 7-day view (instead of requiring a user to go and look).

I consider this of importance for one main reason: as this calendar moves into the main position, I believe reliability will be one of the single greatest principles to keeping people happy with it (and helping them to have a good experience!). This is something that though it will affect a small number of people, those affected could be heart-broken by missing a Saturday final project or something similar because they have grown to rely on the calendar (something really good) to help them know everything that they need to complete for school. It's a small subset, but it could be heartbreaking for the wrong person at the wrong time and could really frustrate them that nothing told them that there was an item--possibly a very important one--hiding on Saturday night that caused them to fail a class. We want to help simplify the task management portion of students' lives and this is small, but I think it will smooth out that experience.

Learning Suite should implement the ability to disable the statistics button for those who do not want to be compared with other students. Circumstances that factor into how well students do in their classes differ from student to student and it is of no benefit to see that you are not "doing well" compared to other students when you have a red bar that is lower than someone else's. This function does not prepare you to do better on standardized tests which only focuses on skill, not class rank. Rather, this function tells you that if you are doing better than your classmates, you have convinced yourself you are "doing well." This is a major trigger point for those who want to avoid peer to peer comparisons and focus more on improving themselves for their own sake, not to have their confidence shattered by a graph that labels you with comments such as "Someone got an A.. Good Job!" or "Someone got the lowest score.. it was you!"

Create a "Learning Suite Backpack" that would facilitate dumping all LS course files under Assignments and Content onto a flash drive or specific location on a hard drive. I have noticed that I have downloaded the same 80mb file multiple times from one course just so I could access it on different computers. But if a feature like this were added I would only have to initiate one, one-time download at the beginning of the semester in order to have ready access to all my Learning Suite materials. Also, it might be stretching things a bit, but a sync feature might be helpful in order to account for the files professors add throughout the semester.