[request] Search mentoring sessions by text

Hi all!

When I go into my Mentoring Workspace, I can filter past mentoring sessions by student name or by exercise name.

However, I often find myself wanting to search by the text of the messages in the session. While I make extensive use of the Scratchpad area to keep exercise-related notes that I can use when mentoring, there are certain questions that come up often irrespective of the exercise (in the C++ track questions about what a reference is, pass-by-value vs pass-by-const-ref, why we need .h files…). In those situations, I often find myself having to type explanations anew, because I cannot find any of the previous ones (I can’t remember who I last discussed the topic with!).

A solution for this could be:

  • Being able to search past mentoring sessions by text; or
  • Adding a track-wide Scratchpad area (cool addition but one still needs to remember to write the stuff there in the first place!).

Cheers!
Nacho

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While I provide this functionality for myself and for students that I mentor (for what I can now see), this would be something that would really be useful on the platform without being individually responsible for data access and retrievability.