Interestingly your name here hasn’t changed automatically or forced you to log in again with your new name.
Also I am still following you (automatically) and all your “leggi” courses have your new creator name. (I thought I recognised your name and was expecting your ‘goat’ photo.)
Finally, many of the points you mention above we agree with and have been listed elsewhere eg how do users find a good course (and by one of us rather than the MemRise team) as the number of ‘users’ is no proof of quality - hence the request for a “star” appreciation of great courses.
@DW7 have you a link to the star appreciation request thread? A simple marker on tested and recommended courses could make quite a difference from sorting the wheat from the chaff - depending on the criteria for being able to award a ‘‘star’’. Imagine - courses listed by most recent, most recommended, size and popularity!
@DW7 cheers for the links. I like the idea of a simple mark/star on courses users have recommended (after someone’s completed enough of it to judge!), I’ll check those threads when I’ve got time.
As for the course forums - they were something that a learner could use to assess the quality of a course (multiple error reports and no response = not good!). Now that the forums have gone it seems even more important to improve a users experience by making it easy to find good courses.
As you know, the topic of grading the quality of courses has rumbled on for a long time and we are no nearer getting a solution - of any kind, let alone one that the majority of users would be happy with. I think that’s a major failing. But, while Memrise continue to concentrate on developing and pushing their own courses, I don’t suppose there will be much appetite within ‘Memrise Towers’ for spending any time on this.
Anyway, this isn’t the right forum topic to be renewing this debate. Maybe, when I have some time on my hands, I’ll kick it off again in a thread of its own.
I’ve been doing an Italian course and the course creator has not created a forum for the course so I don’t know how to contact him. There are a few mistakes in the course and also many synonyms that are not resolved. I don’t know if he is still maintaining the course and don’t know how to contact him. I’d love to be added as a contributor if he is no longer interested. Do any have any suggestions about this?
There are a lot of Italian courses. You should specify and provide a link to the specific Italian course you are referring to, so that Lien can contact them for you.
the old forums were good because you didn’t have to make a log-in to ask/answer a question, but this forum isn’t hard to make a login and I prefer the layout
These new forums are awful. Sometimes you look at a change and think… how the heck did this seem like a good idea? I haven’t found a single forum to go with the courses that I liked to study.
I agree this can happen, but to be fair, in the past just because there was a Forum, didn’t mean the Creator was active and was still supporting the course.
But it did mean that if a Contributor was supporting the course s/he was also notified.
We now need to hunt for the Creator and then ask the MemRise team to contact them (if they are not present), with a view to us supporting the course - if that is what we want to do.
As a Contributor to many courses, I am adding my ‘name’ to the long description so people know they can contact me via a Forum or a PM (and there is a quick link on my profile [on the learning pages] should people not know their way around here.)
There is certainly more of a community feel about this area, but if I remember correctly, there were two ‘community’ areas under the old system, it’s just that Course Forums were automatically set up with all new courses - which was great at the initial stage while the Creator was active and keen to improve the course.
Usually it was a contributer that replied. The actual creator had moved onto other things… sometimes you would get replies from other students studying the course too. Aside from submitting error reports it was nice to just talk to other people who were doing the course also. Anyway. History now.
I need help. I created a course, with 850 words, and probably did some mistakes… I wanted to check my forum, if any user complain about something I could fix. But I don’t find. Do they just disappear ? Did I have to create a forum no-one will visit ?
And I found a mistake in a course, So how can I report it ? Before, it was reaaaaaaaally easy… Just a single button. This disappear too ?
I’m using Memrise from a year and I feel the app getting worse and worse…
I need help. . . . . Did I have to create a forum . . . ?
If you have a read around, you will see this has been discussed and you will see the suggested solution that most of us are following, namely to create a “[Course Forum] ‘Subject title’ by Jacen_Likes” (under the appropriate subject heading) and then put that link onto your course description pages so people will find it.
Ask if you want to be shown links to this information.
