Course Creator's Wish List

Tapping only works with three or more words in a definition. There are occasions when one would like to turn off Typing but allow taping for two (ie a pair) of words.

31) It would be nice if tapping was allowed on TWO or more words or we were given the option to lower the number from three to two words.

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32) It would be good if courses now listed as by “deleted” could be re-assigned to the active Contributor who has in fact become the Custodian or Curator (my words) of the course.

Unfortunately courses listed by “deleted” could put people off trying them as they think they will not get any support.

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33) It would be nice if there were a way for non-contributors to see a list of all contributors to a course, not just the Creator (or Custodian or Curator if 32) were implemented).

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Hi @A_User Re “33”, On all the courses I support I acknowledge my involvement (in the course description) together with a date of the last update.

On larger courses like the Easy Academy ones, I have listed all the contributors so users can PM one of us or use the [Course Forum] for that subject, which I’ve set up.

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@DW7 Yeah, that’s one way to do it. But it would be really nice if it were automatic, not all courses are going to have that by a long way.

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34) It would be great if the MemRise team could add a symbol to the course photo (or description) for courses with a) Audio, b) no Tapping and c) no Typing.

This could best be achieved by linking the action to the testing tick box for b) and c) and either checking the audio field for data or having a tick box that the creator could activate.


35) This would allow another wish for searching for courses that either include audio or exclude typing &/ or tapping.

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Hi DW7 I tried control+Z after a bulk upload, it didn’t do anything… which leads me to:

36) Bulk delete of items from the database and levels.

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Indeed! I’m mostly working with 2-5 words - it must be a nightmare editing sentences. I kind of hope now that Memrise has it’s official courses they’ll appreciate the faff it is to create and maintain a course!

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37) Being able to share entries/levels between my courses. A pool of the entries I’ve created over all my courses would be nice, but to be able to copy a level from one of my courses to another would be fantastic.

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@leggi

to be able to copy a level from one of my courses to another

I assume you know you can duplicate levels and I then amend the testing method or columns in a higher numbered level. In other words I do it within the same course.

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@DW7 When reviewing courses, if I’m typing - I want to type, or doing MC (Multiple Choice) then just to click. I don’t like them mixing.:relaxed: I’m also adding entries as I come across them, so it’d be nice to create a level on one course and then transfer it to another course when it’s ready. (keeping a ‘clean’ database on the second course.)

The majority of my courses have been prompt with English - type in Bulgarian, which has taught me a lot of vocab. - give me the English and I’ll give you the Bulgarian! (and how to type in Cyrillic :sunflower:).

I hear/see Bulgarian words with an ‘‘I know that’’ feeling, but I’m struggling to come up with the English in some cases, but for one Bulgarian word I’ve multiple English words, so typing isn’t a good option with a Bulgarian prompt.

Multiple choice is much better for my ‘‘read the BG’’ courses I’m working on at the moment. I’m just having to transfer the data via a spreadsheet . . .

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That’s what I was going to suggest. This comes back to our desire to download a course so we can then upload it onto a new course and make variations.

This leads on to another request/ wish (which I don’t think we have listed yet)

38) The ability to duplicate columns so one set could be for ‘matching’ (MC) another set for ‘tapping only’ and another for ‘typing’ by preference.

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39) I’d like to be able to see my all my database on one page (useful for proof reading, looking for items missing attributes etc.)

Especially since the number of entries shown per database page has been reduced (which makes me think there’s no change of getting more on a page!), it’s time consuming to check each page. For example: 66 pages for a course with 1300 items. I’m glad most of my courses are under 2000 entries :sunflower:

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I thought that but just thought I might be wrong. I must admit it is a lot harder to search (assuming you want to see an item in context with it’s neighbours).

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Well, maybe not on one page – but yeah, a bit more on one page anyway, and maybe with the ability to give a starting point, that, for example I want to see 100 entries starting from #1248.

Case in point: a random screenshot from my course database.

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@poggi :grinning: a ha ha ha, that’s a big course!

I’d be happy with 100 entries a database page, it’d certainly be easier and quicker than now.

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40)
Idk if this has been mentioned here but we were talking about a reset button for the database (to generate alternative answers) or a check database button like anki has over here: Deleted/old answers still appearing in tests so I thought i’d mention it here too since someone mentioned it wasn’t over here yet.

so the database makes a list of wrong answers inside the entry of a word (simple explanation by someone who doesn’t actually code) and changing the entry is not always enough to reset this list. so the answers may continue to show up in ways that seem buggy. it would be nice to be able to reset the database without having to delete and re enter entries. there is a script that fixes the issue but I don’t know how to use it since i’m not a code friendly user.

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Yes, having an entry field for starting point would be good, and rather than having a fixed number of items displayed per page, they could make it adjustable with a drop-down control with various options, 20, 50, 100 items, … etc.

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Excellent topic, thanks.
41) for the time being, the multiple choice questions are in fact unique choice questions, that’s why I think it would be great to be able to set questions with multiple choice answers.

Besides, I suggest as a USER

  • to have the possibility to set a weekly goal: that would be interesting especially for completed and forgotten courses
  • to make the daily goal more flexible
  • to be able to see the timer while studying, so that I stop learning when I reach my daily goal.
  • to have the possibility to choose my learning pace, depending on the course difficulty, because some courses are more difficult than others.
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42) When adding text to the "alt" field, it would be nice to have a larger or expandable box (like the request for the data field) as one can not see the whole phrase at one time.

Presumably both these ideas were conceived for languages of one word entries.