Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:40:21 02/15/01
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On February 15, 2001 at 17:48:10, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: >Thanks for the fast response! I think it is very cool that you are hanging out >here and listening to us I try.... ;-) >On February 15, 2001 at 15:04:06, John Merlino wrote: >> >>2) Almost all of the tutorials have "Chapters", which are subsets of each >>tutorial. In the Curriculum tree, anything that is indented is a chapter of its >>"parent" tutorial. This allows you to jump into the middle of some of the longer >>tutorials. But, no, there is no way to actually bookmark a particular page. > >This is what makes the tutorial almost impossible to use. Take the "Defense" >section. There are 67 "pages". Suppose I've done 30 of them. To find my >place I have to hit "Next" 29 times - and each time I have to wait for an audio >segment to load and interrupt it. This really ruins the tutorial. > >There's so *much* material that you can't do one section in a single night. I >need to study some, then go review and play, then go pick up where I left off. >But, this is impossible! Some of the sections have *two hundred* pages and it >takes many minutes to recover your place *EACH TIME*. F'rinstance, there are >172 "pages" in the "Forks" section. I'm never ever going to get to the end of >this in one session and I'm never going to have the patience to hit "next" 170 >times to pick up my previous place. So, it's really unusable as it is. > >Also I've jumped around a bit and have absolutely no idea where I am in each >section. I've got to use *pencil and paper* to keep track! > The "Defense" tutorial, for example, has two "chapters", which are actually both extended quizzes. The first chapter (Quiz #1) starts on page 7 and goes to page 34, and the second chapter (quiz) starts on page 35 and goes to page 67. You will know if you have completed a chapter (or a tutorial) if there is a checkmark in the box next to its name. So, you would need to reach page 35 to get the checkmark next to the first chapter. The "Forks" tutorial is very similar. The initial few pages are just a brief explanation of what a fork is, and the first chapter (quiz) starts on page 6. Each of the eight quizzes are about 15-20 pages in length, so if you stop after a certain point, you will be able to pick up in the quiz where you left off by selecting the first chapter that doesn't have a checkmark next to it. The tutorial itself will not become "checked" until you finish all of the chapters. jm
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