Hey Chris, thanks again for the links!
Are you familiar with Discourse? Is it possible to build a real-time monitoring gadget that keeps track of the posts in the class discussion topic that reach more than 6 likes and rank them accordingly? It might make Rachel’s life a bit easier and help the most upvoted questions get answered.
I tried to do it. The biggest problem I had with Discourse is that it has a script that automatically conceals posts far away from the currently viewed post, even in the HTML source code. I could not solve it with my limited web programming experience. What do you think, our web wizard?