Feedbacks & ratings

[rtshiva]

Hi,
i just found out about this community few weeks back through the coursera course “Learn about learning” & actively joined more than a few courses that i was interested in. within a week i have discontinued from 2 of them due to the low quality of the course more specifically the bad Q& A (there is a limit on how long you can take a course that always has the same answer in two options and will fail your answer if you choose the wrong one!!!) . i have not created any course here so i dont know how it works or who to complain, but what i can say is that “why is there no ratings / feedbacks section for each course”. i am already familiar with Anki and if i see similar quality issues and no way to identify or filter the good from the bad, i will just skip using this site and customize the course i see fit in Anki rather than go through the trouble to do that here. this might have been discussed earlier as well but after having to verify my id again just to post in the forums i am highly skeptical on the feedback being taken up. so just filing my concerns here so atleast it might be visible to others.

regards,
Siva

[sifushano (Shano 師傅)]

Hi @rtshiva, have you read through this:

[Site Feedback] We can now make better course reviews, what should they look like?

We can now sticky posts and also turn posts into wiki’s. I think then it’d be nice if the language categories each had a wiki sticky post with reviews of good courses for those languages. What should such reviews look like? What items should they include? Can you make a mock-up? Perhaps we can decide on what items reviews should include and put a guide for making reviews at the top of the review sticky/wiki/thread. I’ve pinned this topic in the General Discussion area – until June 4th – and mad…

There is an active discussion there on this topic.

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Edit:

Or maybe not so active, but give the topic a nudge anyway.

[rtshiva]

thanks @sifushano. i was just in a bad mood after having to quit few courses i was very much interested in . let me check out that discussion.

[avyva (Aya Avyva)]

I know the feeling. I have a couple of courses that suffer from the same problem. Ultimately there is no perfect quick solution. You can search to see if the course creator is in the active in the forum (which is probably not likely) and ask for edits. If the creator is no longer active you can request to be added as a contributor to the course and make the changes yourself. Or you could create a whole new course any way you want.

From what I have heard (I have not used Anki myself) Memrise is easier to use to create a course.

What most people do is copy the good from a course and adjust it to their preferences. Why not do that here. I find creating a course gives that little extra learning.

[rtshiva]

agree with your points, but when i am in the process of learning myself i would look for the easiest way out . i am not at a level to create courses on topics of my interest, even if i can how can i be sure that people can find it ? without a clear way to find good courses i see no benefit to others which i assume is the point of memrise and it’s community.

my points were more towards the site admins who have a “business” to run & pushed more than a few upgrade requests. They control the site and should act on improvements to user experience, there is a limit what we can do ourselves to overcome such limitations.

[avyva (Aya Avyva)]

Easiest is to select the ignore feature for each of the problematic Q and A’s which essentially deletes them from your view, and continue the course without them

There are two ways to do this, as described here:

[App Feedback] desperately needs simple feature to skip an item you already know

If I understand correctly, you can use the ‘ignore’ feature to achieve what you’re looking for. When first being introduced to an item, there should be a button to ignore it, as seen here: [image] This will make the ignored item never show up for learning or review again, unless you un-ignore it later. You can also ignore multiple items by going into a level’s page, and clicking the “Ignore” button below the green ‘learning’ button.

[Kaspian]

I agree—it would be great to have a rating system for courses

Since we don’t, have you considered going to the forum section that discusses what you want to learn and asking people which courses they like? For example, if you wanted to learn Spanish, you’d go to the Spanish forum.

[cos]

Many Memrise users have long wanted a course review feature, where you could see other users’ reviews when you’re looking at the course itself. We asked Memrise on the old forum system and on the old uservoice feedback system, but I don’t think they ever even answered.

In the meantime, I agree with what @Kaspian wrote - the best thing to do is find the topic area here that relates to the courses you want to take, and ask for recommendations. Or look first to see if other people have already asked. For example, I recommended a few Arabic courses here in response to someone else posting their own recommendations and asking for more:

Recommended Arabic Courses

I recommend these Arabic courses: Madina Arabic Book 1 Learn Basic Arabic Do you know any other Arabic Courses?