This month, our Study Help Member of the Month award goes to hassi94! Thanks for all of your excellent posts and advice, especially in the Maths and A-Levels forums – and congratulations!

{ 0 comments }

It’s really important to The Student Room team that you help us shape the community and the tools we use. Together we can make the site even better to use. So, in response to direct requests from members, we have made some significant improvements to The Student Room to make your experience better. Below is the list of some of the key improvements that you’ve asked for:

- You will now have the option to change the ‘Explore TSR’ expandable menu in to a visible bar of links, like we used to have. The option can be set on the ‘Edit options’ page.

- Your watched thread settings will automatically be applied to any threads you create or post in when using the anonymous feature. No more losing threads you post anonymously in due to not being set to watch them!

- When posting using the anonymous feature in a thread, you will find the anonymous tick box automatically ticked if you go to reply to the thread again, making it much harder to accidentally reveal yourself in the thread.

- The report icon has been changed to something bigger and more obvious on a post and private message.
If your posts end up in the queue for any reason, you will usually now be sent a PM telling you when a moderator has processed it.

You can find a full list of the latest updates and improvements here.

We’re really excited about these changes which all come from our members’ ideas, and we hope you like them too! We love hearing your suggestions, so if you have an idea for a new feature or an improvement to a current feature on TSR, let us know in the TSR Development and Bugs forum.

{ 0 comments }

{ 0 comments }

Just a quick shoutout to our amazing members that took part in the recent Easter cooking & baking competition. We had over 60 entries in total as TSR members donned their aprons and oven gloves.

In first place was Pink Elephant with a fantastic Easter themed cake:

Our 3 runners up were trixiebell, Nazzo and Doolally who each produced spectacular entries, it really was difficult for our judging panel to choose the winners!

Click here to see our winners entries, and check out all the other entries in our competition!

Brilliant work all round :D

P.S. We're thinking the next should be a jubilee themed competition. Keep your eyes peeled :)

{ 0 comments }

In recognition of the hard work our moderators do on the site, we like to recognise both the mods and their contributions to moderation and the community as a whole.

Today we would like to award fire2burn and Sazzy890 for their commitment and efforts in the Health and Relationships forums, particularly in the Mental Health forum, supporting vulnerable members and assisting with recent issues in the depression society. They have both taken a proactive role following our recent training with the Samaritans  in helping us make sure we deal with suicide and self-harm related issues promptly and sensitively.

Thank you to both fire2burn and Sazzy890 for being star members of our team!

{ 0 comments }

The Student Room has now launched it’s first app in the Google play store.

Following some user testing, getting feedback and beavering away at fixing a few bits and pieces, we’re delighted to have the first version of the app out there for the world to see and use!

You can find out more about the app here, but don’t just download it… have a play around and rate it You can also let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback in this thread.

It’s totally free to use and we hope you’ll love it as much as we do, it makes using TSR on your mobile SO much simpler!

Watch out for the iPhone version, coming soon…

{ 1 comment }

This month’s member of the month award goes to fluteflute for being a consistently helpful and dedicated member of the Oxford forum. He’s a font of admissions knowledge despite only being an offer holder, and has created a stats thread based on FoI requests on which he requests the same kind of admissions stats as Cambridge already provide on their website and then analyses the results to provide a really useful database of Oxford stats.

Thank you and congratulations!

PS. We are now accepting member of the month nominations from members. Make your nomination here!

{ 0 comments }

This month, our Study Help Member of the Month award goes to Stonebridge, whose continued contributions, especially to the Physics forum in Study Help, have now been superb over several years – thank you once again and congratulations!

{ 0 comments }

Fashion students have been getting involved with the national women’s charity Platform 51′s ‘Glad Rags’ campaign which launched on International Women’s Day and is running through March to raise awareness of low-level mental health issues.

Platform 51 has found that 33% of all women have taken antidepressants and more than half weren’t offered an alternative. 24% currently taking antidepressants have been on them for 10 years or more and 24% have not had a review of their treatment for a year or more. They are therefore calling for a review in the way low-level mental illness is treated in this country and an end to the stigma that surrounds mental health.

They are asking to help break this stigma by doing something simple – share the outfits and styles that make you feel good, inside and out, and help get the debate going on women’s mental health.

So far a whole range of women have gotten involved from singers to politicians. However, there is still more work to be done.

Get involved by discussing your Glad Rags on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and by signing our petition.

{ 0 comments }

… it’s time to get baking!

Back by popular demand following the success of the Christmas cooking competition, we bring you, the TSR Easter cooking & baking competition!

So whether it’s cakes, biscuits, easter eggs, muffins….whatever you fancy making you can win one of 4 deliciously chocolatty prizes. First prize being Hotel Chocolat’s most popular Easter egg: