[Site Feedback] Changes to Course Forums - email from Olivia Zavala
@gustav46 wrote: Appears to be another example of Memrise mgt. doing what they want and not listening or caring what learners or course writers concerns are. We should still have some ability to make...
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@DW7 wrote: Here’s an idea for a QUICK SOLUTION until we get more space (as hoped for) on our Course Forum Descriptions (or wishful thinking, a ‘link field’): As stated before, I have a ‘top level’...
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[Site Feedback] Changes to Course Forums - email from Olivia Zavala
@Leshonim wrote: I just found out the course forums have been removed. So I’m here to say that I agree that the change seems to be done hastily and not very thoughtfully. It’s not as easy to report...
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@Zurreal wrote: I agree with @Leshonim. I’m studying the “Current World Leaders” course and even though the creator updates regularly she seems to have missed out on some changes in the world. There’s...
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@DW7 wrote: Hi @Zurreal, Are you a Contributor to that course? I agree the change has made things harder but re There’s no way for me to communicate with the Creator as she didn’t create a course...
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[Site Feedback] Changes to Course Forums - email from Olivia Zavala
@Arete_Hime wrote: Zurreal: very few have created one That’s the wrong link. This one is better: https://community.memrise.com/tags/course-forum (if you know the category the course is in, it’s...
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@DW7 wrote: Thanks for the tip - that works really well! And I agree it’s best to look in the Category. Read full topic
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@DW7 wrote: This discussion, to which I have added, is quite relevant. How are we supposed to communicate with the course creators? The biggest problem (as far as I am concerned) is where creators...
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@xvg11 wrote: DW7: However, the good news is that the “Forum” button on every course is still there and leads to the home-page of this Community. It appears that the “Forum” button on each course has...
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[Site Feedback] Changes to Course Forums - email from Olivia Zavala
@DW7 wrote: You are right!!! xvg11: It appears that the “Forum” button on each course has now been removed; The only link is the faint grey general “Forum” link at the bottom of each page that doesn’t...
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[Site Feedback] Changes to Course Forums - email from Olivia Zavala
@alanh wrote: DW7: If we only had the extra space, we could at least advertise our new “[Course Forums]”. For me, in the continuing absence of the “promised” extra space in our Course Description"...
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@xvg11 wrote: I agree that the extra space, though not ideal, would help a little, but a dedicated field to allow the course creator to create a clickable link to a forum of their choice would be...
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@moonglum101 wrote: Speaking as a course creator and maintainer, the removal of a forum for each course that was directly connected to each course was a big mistake. Expecting course...
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@Zurreal wrote: Hi @DW7, Sorry about the hold up. No, I’m not a contributor to that specific course. I’ve noticed that the creator of the course has indeed created a course forum and linked it in the...
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@DW7 wrote: Hi @Zurreal, sorry which course? No, I’m not a contributor to that specific course Read full topic
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@Zurreal wrote: Zurreal: “Current World Leaders” “Current World Leaders”. I messed up by not replying your post up-stream. It doesn’t matter though as it’s all good now. Cheers. Read full topic
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@DW7 wrote: So pleased you now have a way to communicate with the creator over that course. I’m left with not knowing what to do about some other courses where they are not in this area, so I can’t...
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@Zurreal wrote: Automating the forum creation and a link to the course on the course page whenever someone creates a public course would, of course, be ideal. In the absence of that or until then, an...
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@Zurreal wrote: Oh, and a “flag” button or something on the course page so that users can at least report (in an orderly fashion from your perspective) the absence of a course forum might streamline...
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@xvg11 wrote: Another problem is that the Discourse forum software that Memrise is now using is a terrible design to use for course-specific discussions, because it uses a flat chronological display...
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@RabbitWho wrote: I think this is another example of Memrise using user data for the 99% of people who join memrise and leave after a month instead of the 1% of us who stick around. People join, make...
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@moonglum101 wrote: @RabbitWho. I’ve stopped contributing since they got rid of the course forums. I had been contributing to a number of courses, including a couple of quite popular ones, but I no...
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@DW7 wrote: 10 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Course Forums] Chemistry courses not listed elsewhere Read full topic
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@kraemder wrote: I’m very much against this change. I went looking for the forum to a popular course and couldn’t find one. Who knows if one exists - it may be buried but a search didn’t yield a...
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@DW7 wrote: I’ve PM’ed you. Read full topic
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