I’m trying to figure out how to make the videos load better. ASL 1 & 2 have always used the default testing direction, “Test on ASL, prompt with English.” If I make ASL 3 “Test on English, prompt with ASL,” would that mean that the course would show only one video at a time, and the options would all be English? I think that might make the videos load more easily (since there would only be one per page), but when I go through ASL 1 & 2 as a learner, it seems to me like it uses both testing directions; sometimes it asks me the meaning for a sign, and sometimes it asks me the sign for a given meaning. Can anyone enlighten me on this? Thanks!
Oh, and thanks! It’s a boy! We’re so grateful he’s happy and healthy despite being born pre-term. Hopefully I can share a video of him signing someday! 
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Okay everybody, at the close of International Week of the Deaf 2017, I’m pleased to announce that ASL 3 is now published!
In the coming weeks, I’ll be sprucing it up with explanatory multimedia levels, a course image, etc., but there should be enough there to keep you busy for a while. Enjoy!
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Multiple times during a review session, including the repetitions following a wrong answer, two images of the word DURING are offered and one is marked wrong.
Huh, that’s weird. Thanks for letting me know! I’ll look into it.
@Diana.S, this might be due to a long-standing issue with Memrise. There is a very long discussion on the problem here and a script to fix the problem here.
Yeah, I do a lot of picture courses and I have that problem all the time 
Overall I like the courses and I’m actually learning…but I found ASL2 very hard to see on the App particularly the numbers (maybe its the black background). Had to give that course up and go to ASL3 which is much more visible for me. Would love to see some of those hard to see ones redone. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the feedback! I actually thought the same thing, so I re-filmed ASL 1 & 2 with the white background and will update the courses as soon as I’m done editing the videos and making the GIFs.
Also, for everyone: I was wondering why ASL 3 had fewer words than ASL 2, and I realized that there were more video files lurking on my computer! I will add the new words as soon as I figure out how I want to re-organize the course levels.
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Dianna,
How did you add videos to your lessons? I would love to create a course with my own students in my class. I cannot find any answers that help me. Thanks!
I just got to lesson 9: how do you feel? And I noticed that the gif for dumb appears to be the same as the one for during. Perhaps this is why it was being marked wrong before. I was choosing the one attached to the word dumb.
Hey, thanks! This has now been fixed.
Memrise doesn’t support video formats, so I actually use GIFs that I’ve made from my videos. This article from Memrise on creating image-based courses gives a great explanation, and you might also like this article from the Memrise wiki. I hope this helps!
Great! Thank you.
In lesson 10, decide and difficult seem to have a similar issue.
Oh man! It should be fixed now. Thanks!
Love these courses, thank you so much! I’m currently taking an ASL class and these have really helped me.
Will there be an ASL 4?
I’m hoping so! Keep up the great work!
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Hi Diana, thanks for these lessons. I am learning a lot. I’m currently starting ASL2 but it’s not available on the app like ASL1 was. Is there any way this can be fixed?
How strange. As far as I know, course creators aren’t involved in what goes into the Memrise app, but I’ll contact their tech support and see what I can find out. Has anyone else had this problem? When was the last time you updated the app? I know sometimes a course gets shut down if it has an unaddressed error in the content that a learner has contacted Memrise about, so I’ll try to look around the course as well and see if there’s anything that might have thrown things off.
I’ve really been enjoying using your ASL 1 course to refresh my rusty signs, but I’m glad that I already know 90% of them — because for the last few days, every “new” word or phrase presented has come up exactly the same:
I tried to upload photos of YESTERDAY, TODAY, and TOMORROW, but Memrise will only let me share one — rest assured they all look exactly alike. They’re all still photos of the same facial expression, with no hands showing. So it’s a bit difficult to learn new signs that way. 
Is there any way to fix this? I’d like my son to use the course too, but it’s going to be a harder sell when new vocabulary all looks identical to him
Thanks!
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Hi Keyne, I’m so glad you’ve been enjoying the course! I took a look at Level 17: Time and all of the signs seem to be working for me, even when I’m logged out. Are you still have this issue?
And is anyone else here experiencing the same difficulty?