This is the roadmap that is being worked on by the kids at Recess during Community hour.

Needs Review

Fix Now - Up next

Fix Later - Real problem, will take some time

Cool Idea - Not Now, Maybe someday

Not For Recess - Off Mission

Completed

Recess Kid Feedback Roadmap

In Review

make you be able to see the results on ur own poll!! :P

Sasha A.

I think students should be able to suggest new classes that they want to see on recess, like how they can suggest new features for the platform.

Class suggestions

Zac E.

dark mode for ui is default instead of light mode

dark mode is default

Iver A.

Add these to the feed and have a minimum number of upvotes for the event to run.I want to be able to request a specific event and see how many people want the same event.

Event Requests

Christopher Bulu

make so kids make their own challenges

Ivy H.

Disable effects that make Recess more laggy on older computers

Legacy Mode

Jensen S.

Most of the time when I am looking at a chat it displays the link name instead of the community channel name:<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" alt="" data-featurebase-content-key="67461aabc596e6f522e76f1e/post/6a1880fd94f29f1f801ffffc/019e6fb7-85c0-7de7-abb7-900bd6e2adac/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" src="https://67461aabc596e6f522e76f1e.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/6a1880fd94f29f1f801ffffc/019e6fb7-85c0-7de7-abb7-900bd6e2adac/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20260530T230000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO801TYC4FCVNNEKURKM%2F20260530%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=80794984166b249156ca7c6de4069247dc508b51e0ce119398b1855c12418670" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png">You could do something like this:Coding &amp; Game Dev | Recess!Minecraft | Recess!

Fix the tab titles

Building on top of the “sub-chats” I discussed, what if we made it so that you could make groups - with their own feed, their own chats, and a banner, image and description. You’d access the group feed by clicking on different buttons along the top of the feed, along with the Recent, Trending and Challenges buttons. You’d access the chats via a seperate tab in the Messages tab.I feel like we need a better Groups system.

Awaiting Response

Facebook-esque groups

Profile rings:Flower profile ringPicture frame profile ringRing of fire profile ringWater profile ringRecycle ♻️ profile ringDiamond ring 💍 profile ringLasso profile ringAnimated profile rings (like the fire one could be animated or the flowers blow in the wind)Shoes profile ring (adds shoes beneath your profile so it looks like your standing)Cowboy hat profile ring (like the napoleon hat but instead it’s a cowboy hatFedora profile ring (like the napoleon profile ring but it’s a fedora)Baseball cap profile ring (like the napoleon hat profile ring but a baseball cap)Top hat profile ring (okay you probably get it by now)Banners:Binary code background ( black background with a green gradient coming from below and glitchy 1s and 0s all over the place in lines)Desert wasteland (animated background where a tumbleweed passes by and dry plants blow in the wind)Plane flight background (an empty sunset sky where planes and jets fly by)Static background (just tv static)Cool garden (a garden where the sun shines bright over the cool shade and planters hold bushes and vines, flowers and trees)Stick man dance party (a ton of stick man dancing in a white sketch paper background)Stickers:A interactive button sticker that you can click (it does nothing but switches to a pressed frame when clicked/tapped)Hobby stickers (alot of coins): drawing stickers include paint brushes, crayons, pencil, stylus.Engineering stickers include: circuit sticker, Lego sticker, scaffolding or architecture sticker, Minecraft red stone repeater or something like that,woodworking sticker (hammer or wood sculpture.Skate/scoot stickers: skateboard sticker, longboard sticker, scooter sticker, tricycle sticker, roller skate sticker, ice skate sticker.Custom sticker /gif upload (like 600 coins and approval from guide, if not approved coins will be refunded)

Recess store doesn’t have a lot of items, (suggestions)

<ol><li>Notification when a chat name is changed “___ changed the chat name to _______”</li><li>Maybe some more things to polls.<ol><li>option to include “other” where users can write in an option</li><li>an option to make polls anonymous or public (so you can see who voted for what</li><li>Allow live results to show</li></ol></li></ol>

update to polls and chat channel names

Felicity S.

By making custom banners :3

Dominik F.

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://garticphone.com/">https://garticphone.com/</a>

Gartic phone

1: I looked in the chat2: I expected a conversation3: I saw a ton of polls 4: a chat specifically for polls would be nice so new members aren’t confused when looking in any other chat (you can still put polls in other chats but it might help reduce the amount)

Polls chat

I think the console gamers channel should be turned into The “gamers” or “gaming” channel it’s more flexible and not a lot of people are using the channel.

Fix Now

I think the console gamers channel..

this is not a tool, I just can't open Jippity and if I try it says that it redirected me too many times

Brannock F.

This should probably start as an admin tool. But have the ability to open it up to kids soon after.<ul><li>After you vote you can see the current results</li><li>Should include a timer (you have __ left to vote)</li><li>Auto post for finished poll results</li><li>Recess Staff can make polls in the feed</li><li>Recess members can make polls in the chat.<ul><li>Polls need to be approved by guide if more than 1 per day </li><li>What about visibility? Do we need a separate tab in the chat for polls?</li></ul></li></ul>

Allow the creation of polls in the feed

Jippity is AI slop. It doesn’t teach you how to code, instead you tell it what to do and it codes it for you. You’re just making kids braindead ‘programmers’ who are really just making a computer program itself.

Jippity removed from Recess

The new challenge pages look cool but there it's slower to navigate could you add a second part that functions like the old page?

Instead of deleting them and reposting them make it so you can edit the listings price based on the supply/stock and demand

ability to edit community shop items when they come back (or if they come back)

i would like to be able to click on courses form the recommendation list

click on courses from recommendation list

Haley B.

Instead of “featured challenges” rotating at the top of the page. It should be a grid of “challenge categories” instead. That way new kids can see all of the possible categories. Then move featured challenges to a tab on the side

Planned

Fix to Challenge page

You can embed jippity links directly into projects so they show on the feed and can be played (like we do with youtube and chrome music lab)

Embed/code into projects

When you click on the “…” button next to a message an option appears that lets you turn off notifications for that thread. Because usually if yiu say something in a thread or react to it, you get notifications for every reply sent in that thread.

“Turn off notifications for this thread.”

When you look at a limited time course, it should list the dates it is happening in the description. Courses are getting left on the course page after they have begun (and you can’t join late) or even after they are over completely. We have multiple times signed up for something that doesn’t exist because the dates aren’t there.

Quality of Life

dates for limited run courses on course page

Susie K.

it doesnt delete them it just makes it so you cant see them and it would stay hidden for you until you unhide it (even if you reload the page)PLEASE! I NEED THIS BECAUSE IVER KEEPS SENDING AN IMAGE IN COMMUNITY HOUR CHAT AND EVERYBODY UNIVERSALLY AGREES THEY HATE IT

the ability to hide messages.

Chuck K.

<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019552a5-e9f1-72ec-be7b-9e7177c357ac.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">what if i want an oncoming automobile? or im mad? or im…. juggling🤹? just let me use any emoji pwease

Emoji Reactions on Activity feed posts

Walker W.

I want users to be able to filter the Explore Page by Topic. An MVP is a filter by existing Rows.

Explore Page Topic Filter

[Unnamed User]

<ol><li>I’d like to be able to re-vote if I change my mind on something.</li><li>What if a poll can never expire?</li></ol>

Fix Later

Some stuff with Polls

I tried to navigate the chats and find a chat for what I wanted to share.I expected to find the right chatThere was too many chats and it was also hard to find the right one.Instead of having several specific chats for everything we should have a few vague chat names that can represent more than one subject. General (stays the same) Art and design (also stays the same) Console gamers ( changed to gamers and added to gamers as a sub-channel) Engineering steam games ( deleted and added to gamers as a sub-channel. also rebranded as steam games.)Show and tell channel (deleted) people just use general channel and art and design to show off their work (projects as well) people also dont use the channel as much.minecraft channel (sub channel in gaming)memes (stays since its used alot)Coding and gaming ( Deleted and turned into sub channel inside art and design) Roblox (sub channel in gaming) Music, (sub channel in art and design.

Vague-er channel names.

<ul><li>Gartic phone</li><li>Draw battle etc.</li><li>Skribblio</li></ul>

Need to allow specific urls to be sent in the chat

The modbot deletes messages with links, including Google Docs. I tried to send Theo a Google Doc for our business project (and I've also tried to send game links or stuff) and the whole message gets deleted with no warning. I understand links are blocked for safety. Could there be a way to send Google Doc links to friends I'm working with? Maybe a guide can approve a link, or an allow-list for safe site

Modbot deleting docs

Kids will each draw out their version of the recess map. It should have every space that was included before and the map will be voted on by the guides (or kids) and whichever map wins will be the map for one week.

For the Future

Map competition.

Make it so that you could create channels inside of chats. E.g, having a chat for Minecraft and then having a sub-chat for Minecraft mods. That sorta thing.

Cool Idea

Sub-chats

the ability to see what projects you have liked

If a kid wants to share contact information with another kid to talk off of the Recess platform (say they want to meet up in person, share phone number, participate in a club/event outside of Recess together) a kid could have their parent click a button to “share contact info” with another parent. Once both parents consent, the kids could share contact info to move off platform.

Ability for Parents to Share contact info with each other

Alan made a cool feedpost about prompting chatgpt. I would love to have it in a ‘saved’ or ‘favourites’ or ‘pinned’ folder so I can go back and reference it later

Ability to 'pin' or 'save' Feed posts

I would like a feature where I get a notification of when a kid friends my Kid and will need my approval. I also would like to be able to unfriend my child’s friend, which will result in them not being able to message each other.

Parent Approve Friending and Unfriending

Nate P.

we currently have a lot of things that we want to add and thats only increasing and increasing through the feedback meeting events, and not that many engineers on working on these. SOLUTION: Let coder kids help us code recess! Maybe make engineers review the code before you like level up to become a super-coderObligatory Four Questions:<ol><li>I tried to have more features, and help code them! (and have other kids that want to do that do that)</li><li>I expected to be able to help code the site (if trusted) and other kids could do that too.</li><li>Only the engineers get to do that, and i cant help, and theres not too many new things!</li><li>Let trusted programming-y/coder kids help code the site!</li></ol>

let the programming-y kids help build the recess

Theo P.

Adding an image to an option/vote would be nice for polls. Like for example “what’s better?” Option 1 fries (an image of fries) option 2 hashbrowns)p (image of hashbrowns option 3 potato wedges(image of potato wedges)

Add images to polls

I tried to make my own chat I wanted anyone to be able to joinBut instead I could only invite friends.A seperate section in the join a channel section titled (kid led) when you click on it it opens up a menu of different kid-led channels, you can click join and you’ll see the rules like any other chat. (Kid-led channels have to be approved by a guide/staff member.) requirements for making a channel: thumbnail the thumbnail should represent the channel well and tell users what the channel is for. A name, the name should indicate what the channel is and shouldn’t be nonsensical/mean/inappropriate/whatever. Description: description gives more information on what the channel is about it’s meant to explain what a title or thumbnail can’t explain. The last requirement is that you have to invite a guide to moderate the channel.

Kid-led group chats

Like the winter shop times, but summer. Here are some of my ideas. Life saver profile ring, sun profile ring “recess summer” sticker with a sun and a guy surfing or something like that, beach ball sticker that says “RECESS”, Sticker that says in bold text with a “holographic” border “SUMMER 2026”

Low Priority

Limited time Summer shop items

Community store new and improved. The community store is back! With new and refurbished features here are a few of them: You can now customize items more by adding descriptions and changing the price. Items can be sold in bulk or be sold as packs. You can gift items to people (taking the item is optional and you can only gift one item per-day). Items can now have stock! You can have a certain inventory of an item which goes down with every purchase that is made, once it reaches 0 it gets removed from the shop, notifying the owner to restock/that their item is out of stock. The store now has a rule-set and is rated by Google search engine to check if an item is from the web. You can now sell several types of items! Kids can now make and sell stickers. Stickers can be used to customize and personalize profiles. Kids can also sell backgrounds for profiles, profile rings and more. Items are now organized into groups.

Community Store: Revamped🔥

Winner gets 2000 coins (bonus if it’s super good) the competition can be held in different age brackets so it’s fair for everyone.

Engineering/building competition

Art showcase/competition. Winner gets 2000 coins it’s held in brackets by age group so it’s fair for everyone.

Art Event

Project maker default: project maker default is the base setting for making your own projects, with reliable tools like adding images, links and more. (Cost: 0)Project maker entry: Project maker entry is a more advanced version of Default it consists of everything included in the default project maker but with extra features like adding stickers, changing between more fonts and changing text colors.Project maker pro: Project maker pro is a high level project maker with maximum capabilities for customization. With project maker pro you have all the features of Entry but you can size around text and image or move them around the screen, another feature that comes with Pro is being able to edit comment boxes by pinning comments on your post. Project maker pro comes with an exclusive sticker “packet” for customizing your projects or profile.Owning Project Maker Entry, Project Maker Pro, or Project Maker default does not boost or decrease your projects visibility in the feed/project page they only allow you to further customize your projects to their full potential ☃️☃️☃️Please review this post it took me a long time to come up with and write.

Project maker versions to buy in the shop

The ability to display courses, purchases favorite items or change what UI looks like when people go to your profile.

More customization for profiles

This would be better so that the floaters go faster and they can tell people how to make more go karts!

Rejected

Not For Recess

You should make floaters have go karts.

Malin H.

make no limit on how much letters you can type

Richard B.

Hi, I think it would be helpful to be able to sort courses by price, on the parent side, and see what’s free as well. Thanks,Shira

Sort by price

Shira S.

The option to pay monthly instead of weekly

Monthly payment

Melody P.

Please add community hour for mobile

Can you do this for mobile

I would like a feature where a parent can disable Booping on their child’s account

Parent ability to disable Booping

can you add rooms on the community hour chat it would be awesome and funny

please add this

a roblox corse. were you can make frends on roblox. play games make stuff you know

a roblox corse

Noah O.

a game where you type in what you like and you get to teach it to fake players or real players but you haft to make your way up to being a teacher by answering questions about that thing you like. pls and thank you