Review words in one single level

[freddan74]

Hello everyone,

I have created a custom “class/course” with aprox 50 levels divided into different themes; like words from certain books I’m reading, tv-series etc. I have also created a level for words that are more important for me. Up until now I have always used “classic review” for reviewing the words, on “class/course”-level but now I am more interested in focusing my efforts on my most important words.

So here is my question: can I review words from just one level? It seems like it is possible, but I got a bit confused when words that were not yet due for review also appeared in the review session. Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations about this?

[alanh]

Hi @freddan74,

Yes, you can review words from individual levels.

In the web version, as you have already found, you can review a whole level - even when it contains no words that are due for review - using the ‘Options’ button. When the level contains no words that are due for review the “Review” button will be white, like in this example, and you will have to review all the words in that level, unless you use the ‘pause’ button (in the top bar) and then “Save and Exit”:

You can also scroll through the levels of the course to find the ones that contain words that are due for review. In this example (click on the image to make it bigger), the level has 4 words due for review and the “Review” button shows blue. If you click on the blue review button (in the level page), you will only get those 4 words to review:

In the app version, you can do something similar by scrolling up or down through the levels. The number of items due for review in any level is shown to the right hand side. I have only tested it where one item is ready for review and by tapping on the “1” it just took me to that item for review.

Hope this helps!

[freddan74]

thanx a lot for the information.

[John_Baite (Baite)]

Given that you want to review/study the words that have already in your course, but categorized in a different way, the methode below might be helpful in combination with the solution above.

When create a new level, you can add words that also exist in other levels. Have you learned/reviewed them in a previous level, they will also be marked as learned in that other level, as that are just another pointer to the same record.

Create a new level for the new category, for example ‘words for at school’: Just add a new word by typing, e.g. ‘table’. Memrise will search for table in the database. If you then click on the + in front of table, it will add it from the database, rather than adding a new one. In pictures:
E.g. you have already a level with the word Book:

Now you want to make a level with specifically words for school to review only school-words. Create a new level, and type ‘book’ in the ‘add’ field. See picture:

Choose the top one (if there are two, usually the first one is the one in your own database, and the second one in the database that comes with it when you create the course - it’s a little confusing sometimes, but that is how it is). After clicking the big plus, you’ll get this:

You see, the attributes are exactly the same as in level one. It’s the same record, it’s simply made accessible from level 9 as well now.

Let me know if this helps your learning situation.

You can also add the words using ‘Bulk Add’, for example because you have them already in Excel. In that case, make sure that the text in both the foreign language and English column is exactly as in the database. If only one character is different, it would create a new record (which you then need to delete manually from the database). I always test this with 1 or 2 words first to make sure it works right.

Note: If you press accidentally ‘Enter’, it will create a new record, which you can only delete by going into the database; even if you remove it from the level with the Red X, it’s still sitting (as a ‘ghost’ as some ppl say here) in the database.