Recently I have noticed several of the courses I am watering say “Pick the correct one”.
They used to refer to the column entry eg “Painting”, Title, “Artist” or “Date”. So it would be “Choose the right artist for the painting Shown” (or something similar).
At first I thought it was with a very old course that I just started supporting but I am now seeing it everywhere.
As creators, many of us have used intelligent column descriptors so we could ‘say’ <<pick the right “Artist” for the “Painting” shown>> , but now that description is not used and the user has to use their deduction - and remember the testing method changes as one learns.
I have now discovered that this is particularly confusing where I have courses to learn a quote in two halves as before it would say <<pick the right end of a quote for the start of the quote shown above">> (or something similar).
Now with “pick the correct one” the user does not know if its the start or the end of a quote they are looking for.
Was this accidental or done to make it easier for people who haven’t described columns fully?
Any chance of reverting to the old system, MemRise Team?
I don’t know what and why they did what they did, but for Japanese is not funny. i have courses saying now “type the Japanese/Japanisch for…”, and if I type Kanji instead of Kana i am marked wrong…
I know, it was so helpful to have a ‘clue’ to what you were being asked.
The only way round it is not to water (aka review) a course at a time [which I know a lot of people like to do], but to water by levels and have each level tell you what you are being asked for - something I have always tried to make clear in the level description.
I can only replicate this problem in courses with more than two colums when a third column is tested on and I have cooljingle’s All Typing script switched off.
So maybe using that script would (temporarily) fix things for you.
I just tried learning some split quotations - ie in two halves.
The columns are labelled “1st half” and “2nd half” so when learning it helped to know if I was trying to pick the right first or second half but of course that helpful information has gone which makes learning a lot harder.
I wonder if the team realise this?
Perhaps it doesn’t affect official MemRise language courses so badly - but it would still be nice to see “Pick the Italian for” and “Pick the English for”.