Facebook's "Like" is on WiZiQ!

WiZiQ embeds the popular 'Like' button, a plugin from Facebook to provide an easy way to learners and teachers to give their opinion on tutorials (content) on WiZiQ with a single click. The button is coming to classes and tests early next week. The objective is to improve the visibility of teachers' public learning resources on Facebook so that more learners and teachers can network with them on WiZiQ.

How is the 'Like' feature beneficial to teachers?

Teachers can reach out to a bigger audience across Facebook and get more visibility on their learning resources, which in turn can translate into more class attendance and sales. This feature also throws a challenge to teachers to make learning content more qualitative, as it will be rated by a wider audience outside WiZiQ because of its ease-of-use and viral nature. This feature brings a sense of competition in on WiZiQ and is a subtle appeal to teachers to schedule more classes, create more tests, and upload more tutorials and deliver them with optimum quality (coming to classes and tests early next week). 

The most admired and the most used feature - why?

Of late, Facebook's 'Like' feature has become the most admired and most used on Facebook and other sites, and has a good marketing effect (especially for teachers on WiZiQ), as it can make your Facebook friends curious about your ‘like’ comments and can also make them - like, unlike, comment and share the content in one go. It’s an easy way to get action from learners as it can be done in one easy click and with options to comment and share. If you have liked a tutorial, you get a comment box when you mouse over the like button. Here's a screenshot:

 

The Facebook 'Activity Feed' widget on WiZiQ

To complement the 'Like' button, a widget, 'Activity Feed', has been embedded in content pages in the right panel. This widget displays the most recent activity on WiZiQ by your Facebook friends - who recently liked, shared or commented on public learning resources on WiZiQ. For instance, if you click on the 'Like' button of the content, you will instantly find your activity in the widget:

 

We are sure that this add-on will help both teachers and students reach out to each other and help build your network on WiZiQ. So go ahead and get those tutorials on Facebook now! And if you like this post, go ahead and like it the way everyone else is doing it on the Web!

Comments

[Louis Machlan]

Jagdeep and his team have been very busy! No wonder the WizIQ team are slow to follow up on my ideas, they have their own dreamers. Well, lately I give my permission because these are better than my ideas anyway ;-) I think we should start a petition to force Jag to give a class now to help see the big picture. Or better yet one of his team mates... Sukhpreet or Nidhi they are easier to look upon.

Thanks again Team WizIQ