Are there aspects of technologies that you use for personal activities that you would like to see incorporated into the learning platform?

Students considered that Facebook is a more dynamic and widely used platform for student feedback to be gathered e.g. using polls to gauge opinion.
On the whole Facebook was considered a very powerful mechanism for dissemination of information and more likely to be the first port of call for many (but not all) students and probably more effective than the Learning Platform. There were differing opinions whether social media should be integrated into the Learning Platform.
Personal organisational tools e.g. calendar of assignments / task manager / alerts.
Ideally a system that can link or be exported into personal tools in use.
An opportunity at the start of a course for each student to choose their preferred method of communication for college matters i.e. email / text / announcement.
Relevant RSS feeds integrated into the LP would be desirable and add a dynamic element to the LP.
Some students would like to be able to customise and personalise the interface if possible e.g. change themes – add / hide elements. Other students preferred to keep the interface simple and uncluttered to preserve and differentiate between personal and college activities.
It was felt that users of social media have the capacity to differentiate between the different context of their social media use and behave appropriately.