Hi,
I’m studying the current world leaders course, among others, and the creator has forgetten to update the leaders in some countries. Memrise removed the internal course forum, for some reason, and now I don’t know how you’re supposed to call errors to attention within the course anymore.
It’s fairly annoying as the creator is updating UK leaders but not Phillipino, Austrian, or Turkish ones. How do we communicate with course creators?
The biggest problem (as far as I am concerned) is where creators either haven’t been informed about the change (see this link for discussion) or haven’t set up a “[Course Forum]”.
If they haven’t appeared in this Forum yet, we can’t even send them a Private Message to point out an issue.
Does anyone have any suggestions other than MemRise contacting all creators and contributors again?
“One smile has the power to…
Calm fears.
Soften stone walls.
Warm a cold heart.
Invite a new friend….
Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Invite all a new friend / student (you know in private) to the forum +
For a little help (Private Message – for Regulars - to all creators etc.) of Memrise…………1 
Give all one smile to Memrise.……Thank you!
Sadly I have recently started several courses (one even by someone I respect and used to be in contact with and has even made me a contributor to another of their courses) but there are ‘issues’ to discuss (including clarification and alternatives) and yet because they have not been here I can’t even contact them.
Either
i) I am going to have to contact the MemRise team to see if they will ask them to come here and get in contact with me or
ii) I am going to have to decide to ignore many items or
iii) even abandon the course.
@DW7 ~ I am kind of in the same boat with you. I started jotting down notes of issues I was seeing in courses I was trying out (with creators not yet on this forum) but after a while I just gave up the exercise and decided to just not do it any more. Either the creator will eventually find their way to the forum and allow others to have interaction, or they won’t. And if they don’t, then it won’t really matter what notes we keep, since they won’t do any good.
It’s still relatively early in the change over of forums, but still, looking down the road doesn’t look much different than now. So, I just started abandoning learning any new courses that didn’t look or feel up to par after a cursory learning session. Kind of a sad legacy of things nowadays, I guess.
I’ll keep you @pdao (and others) informed of my progress as mentioned above.
I have just emailed the info@ address with a request for the creator to get in touch with me, offering several options.
PS Edit Most helpful!
I have had a reply and been informed they have kindly contacted the creator to ask them to either contact me (I suggested a PM or to visit my suggested most suitable “[Course Forum]” thread) or consider accepting me as a Contributor.
Did you find any answer to this? Not being able to contact course creators has been a real issue for me. I’ve started just copying courses and adding the changes I need instead.
Hi @Matt_Mendoza60 I can’t remember which course I was talking about but one where the creator was active has not responded (and I’ve decided to ignore my request) but another where the creator has left, I was made a Contributor by the team.
May I suggest you contact [email protected] with your request (giving as much details as you can).
This was the best suggestion I saw by @kaimi - but I can’t find which thread it was in:
If someone finds it, please could you show the link to this great image, for context.
Hi @DW7,
It was this one: [Site Feedback] There Is No Point in a New Forum Unless It Is Promoted
I made an enquiry and they suggested to make forum post to see if the creator responds. But the creator doesn’t seem to be active on Memrise or the new forums. Surely there must be a way to message the creator or send them an email?
@Matt_Mendoza60,
You can ask @Lien to send an email to the course creator (you’ll need to post a link to the course) inviting him or her to this forum.
Thanks! As soon as I know which course your enquiry is regarding, I’ll look into contacting its creator.
Hello
İn the past it was possible to write in the forum of a group if there are some mistakes… how can reach the group admin?
At the moment İ am learning türkish… in many cases there exists 2 or 3 synonym for on german word… the problem is when the synonymes not noticed as synonymes. so in most cases don-t know whıich translation i should take… and it makes oneself angry if you have false positiv result. .
would be nice if there would pop up another textbox in testing modes with the order to write another synonyme instead of noticing it as wrong.
I think the best would be to have a flagging system or something similar in place, so the users – not only the forum users, but every single course user – could give a sign that they think something is wrong with a given entry.
That something can be whatever: spelling, wrong translation, missing synonyms as alternative answers, a suggestion for a clarification, etc.
And maybe course creators could check a box if they want to get these flags/tickets by mail (for example daily) but there could also be a separate sheet in the course creator interface for these. It would be a lot more convenient than anything before.
Hi @Lien, could you do the same for me please? I’m trying to contact @yajleejnus about the course ‘Complete Vocabulary Guide to Greek New Testament’. Is there a way of putting us in touch with each other? He’s not on the forums.
Many thanks,
ChrisTufnell
Hello @memrisematty,
I would like to contact the creator of http://www.memrise.com/course/144538/deutsch-interaktiv-a1/ about a small correction. PeCygan is not active on the forums but still occasionally works on the course.
