The Civic Mirror Team is proud to present CM 2.4.8 which includes some cool new features that will make the CM experience even better.
Citizen Leaders & News Page
In our current initiative to make the shared Civic Mirror community more interesting for both teachers and students, we created a whole new space within CM World called “Citizen News & Leaders”. You can see its placement in the screenshot below.
This space will include the following features:
1. Enhanced Citizen News Feed: Our web analytics show that students love looking at what other students are doing within civicmirror.com. So we chose to increase the length of our feed so more can be seen.
2. Top CM Tweeters: A list of the students who have composed the most CM-related tweets, either referencing a country hashtag, the #civicmirror hashtag, or our @CivicMirror account.
3. Top Discussion Forum Posters: A list of top contributors in the CM Forums.
4. Status Points Leaders: In Civic Mirror, “SPs” are the name of the game. FINALLY we are tracking and showcasing the students who have earned the most Status Points (Note that we’ll be adding some additional features to ensure authenticity of earned points).
5. 20/20 Performance Club: Civic Mirror comes with a formative assessment tool that measures students i) Success in the Game, ii) Involvement, iii) Initiative, and iv) Learning. This feature showcases the students within CM World that scored 100% on the evaluation.
We are very excited about these leader boards and are looking forward to some of the “races” they will help foster this year.
Improved Stats Control Page (for Teachers)
While there was nothing wrong with the old “Citizen Stats Control” page, we wanted to tighten it up, add some new features, and have it “report” country statistics better. Teachers can now add notes to the transactions, see these notes in a transaction log, and assign Status Points to the years they were earned.
Improvement to Year-End Reports
We also added the following improvement to the Year-End Reports page.
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Users can see how many points were earned that year and the point year-over-year point differential. This is great because there was previously no way to tell who had accumulated the most SPs up to a given year beforehand.
– When a citizen loses a family member at the end of that year, we included their avatars
– And Teachers can now “Print Results”
Coming Soon…
While we would love to write about the security and licensing features we added, we’ll save that for another day and get back to work on inter-country competitions and improvements to our discussion forums.
