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  • RobW August 2013
    I am studying Arabic in school at this time and actually purchased the Living Languages to supplement class. I have found the some of your explanations are better than those in the university class. Because of this I tend to jump around the LL (Living Languages) lessons to find the content we are covering in class. I have several questions related to that:

    1- Is there there so search function that would allow me to put in a term like a type of grammar construction and have it identify the LL lessons and tests designed to teach that? Even a page with detailed outline of the topics would be extremely helpful. Right now I randomly select lessons and scan them to see if they are addressing my issue.

    2- Likewise I'd like to schedule my e-tutoring to coincide with my class material but without an outline I can't match LL to my class to schedule etutoring as far in advance as needed. 

    3- Because I jump around my profile shows progress in the different levels. I dont know what lessons have been completed. There is no feedback mechanism on the site that shows which lessons are complete. Also I am unclear as to what is required to complete a lesson. Do I have to do all the tests and games or just page through the lessons? Some of the material and vocab I already know so I want to check that off quickly. I want to systematically complete each level and have paged through lessons but my progress score is still very low. 
      
    4- The game badges are fine and I assume they are there to motivate students to complete the exercises. Unfortunately I have know idea what tests/exercises the badges map to. Perhaps the badges in your profile could be linked to another screen which shows your progress towards completed that badges-what tests/exercises from whichever chapters are required...
  • Erin August 2013
    Hi there RobW!
    Thanks for your post. I'm glad to hear you've found the Arabic grammar explanations useful! I'll try to answer your questions in order.

    1.  There unfortunately is not a search function like that for the online course content.  We will keep that in mind for the future, but in the meantime, if you email us at [email protected], we can provide you with the table of contents for the physical course, which is identical to the structure of the online course.

    2.  I hope that having the TOC for the physical course will help you with this.

    3.  The color of the star next to each lesson in the main page for each course should change color when you complete a lesson.  In order to complete a lesson, you do need to not only look at each module but also complete each game.

    4. You should have a box showing all of the badges that one can achieve on the page for each level (e.g. if you click on Essential Arabic, you'll see this screen which should show lessons 1-10 with stars next to each and this box on the right).  The badges are a shadow until you achieve them. There's a name and a hint which tells you at least what area you have to achieve in to get the badge, but I see your point about making this more concrete and clear to the user. We'll also take that into consideration for future improvements.

    Let me know if you have any further questions.  
    شُكْراً.
    Erin/Living Language

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