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Hi everyone! Here is the latest version of the Report Card section of the upcoming website redesign.  This will of course display as a regular webpage as well as being available as a downloadable PDF.  Here's the PDF with working links.

Feedback welcome...especially if you spot an error!  Take a look!


And thank you, as always, for all your love and support!


--The Professor

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Anonymous

Looking good, professor. I know I'm not the only one that has been looking for this for a while, yourself included, and I'm glad you're at the point you can make this happen.

Pedro Rodriguez

Looking good! The color coded grades are much easier to see at a glance.

Anonymous

This is really simple yet still great looking - I like it a lot! Should "What should I drink my coffee in?" say "What should I drink my coffee out of?" :-P

Anonymous

Was just looking for this on the preview site and realized that it wasn't there yet >_<

Anonymous

Some random thoughts: * For the footer after the grades of each item category, should "...disclosure of which products sent evaluation samples." read more like "...disclosure of which products were sent as evaluation samples." or "... disclosure of which company sent evaluation samples." ? Probably not good for an engineer to question an English professor on wording (plus it might be more of a spacing issue at the bottom of the page), but as it is I can't help but imagine a pack of card sleeves shipping them self to your door :P * On page 8, some grades appear to have gotten out of order. The Aaron Cain Custom deck box (A+ rating) is at the bottom of the page, but the other A+ items are at the top of the page. * This is truly nit-picky and doesn't matter to anybody except me maybe, but is it necessary for the guy on page 2 to be holding a Timetwister? For me, it actually detracts from the picture, which is trying to advertise the shirt and shipping promo, because the Timetwister is purposely being shown off. I also own a lot of sweet and expensive cards, but I hate it when someone tries to purposely show off what they have unless that's the whole point (like the High End MTG Facebook group or r/FoilMTG). This is probably all just personal bias though. I think keeping the report card super casual and right on point is the way to go, but anytime I see that picture my eyes shoot straight to the Timetwister like "damn that's a sweet, super-expensive card." Everything else looks good to me! I'm loving the minimalist layout and the links in product rating order is super useful.

Anonymous

Looks great! Can't wait to see the finished website at its full glory!

Anonymous

Hey this is awesome! Love it.

Anonymous

Keep up the good work, :)

Stark Maximum

Thank you so, so much, Professor. This makes it incredibly easy to find past reviews just in case I forget your exact thoughts on an item (which I find happens often, and as a result my history is littered with rewatches of the same videos upwards of three or more times, whoops). The only thing that particularly stands out to me about this collection is some of the grades. Sometimes you'll add plusses or minuses to a grade (sometimes resulting in a B----- or a C+++), which you've said in the past is mostly for comedic effect, but I notice in this collection you actually note down those grades as "official". As a result, those ones tend to stand out the most and catch the eye, which I think is a little strange. I think it should be much cleaner if you have them recorded with a single plus or minus, and since each grade comes with a link to the exact point where you review that item, it should be no problem at all to re-watch the review to find the original, slightly outlandish grade.

Anonymous

Love the immediate timestamp links. Super Brillo

Anonymous

Professor, Would it be possible to separate sheets from binders, as separate categories? . I expect that people looking to buy sheets will likely not want to have pick through interleaved binder and portfolio reviews, within the same section, to find the sheets they want to consider for purchase. Could you retroactively provide a grade for products that are listed with an "N/A"? . Having "N/A" rated products appearing below "FAIL" and "D" graded products can make it a little confusing to as to the quality of such products. I understand that these adjustments may not come top priority, considering the large amount of effort and admin required to maintain a stream of new content for the College, but I think it will help improve the already excellent source of consumer information your work provides.

Anonymous

Oh no! Was the feedback that I submitted NOT saved (unless my comment was removed) :(