Posting assignments for critique
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Paul Olsen
When Posting assignments for critique you have to browse through a ton of topics to find the right lesson. Perhaps organizing them in courses (anatomy, figure drawinc, portrait, etc) , "body parts" or something else (torso, legs, arms, etc) would make it easier to find the right lesson?
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Stan Prokopenko
There are 2 main ways to quickly find specific lessons. The quickest I think is the search bar at the top of the website. If you're looking for the biceps lesson for example. type if biceps and it'll be one of the top results, along with the 3d models, ebooks, assignment demos related to biceps. Just select the main lesson and post your assignment in the discussions there. The other way, is to go to the browse page and select the anatomy course. In there click on lessons and you'll see an organized playlist of all the lessons in the anatomy course. They are organized by body part as you suggested. Let me know if this is what you're looking for.
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Katey Jensma
Hi Paul, Critique requests are meant to be posted under the lesson you are working on. For example if you were working in a Spine Assignment you would go to your Anatomy Course, Torso, Spine, Anatomy of the Spine, and post your images and check the "ask for help" box right there in the discussions under the video.
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@pinkapricorn
@Katey Jensma It sounds like @Paul Olsen might have discovered a weakness in the UX of the lesson pages. :) If more people have his problem, it might mean that the video pages aren't doing a very good job of explaining where the assignments are meant to go. For the record I saw that you're supposed to post assignments on their respective video pages but I may not be a typical user because I've scoured just about every inch of this site. Your average user isn't going to be doing that. Their brains will just be searching for a quick indication of where to go next. Web pages are like billboards going by at 50 miles an hour. They have a very short window to impart the needed information before users give up and get frustrated. Hope this helps. :)
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Paul Olsen
Got it! That certainly is a lot easier!
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Liandro
I think @Stan Prokopenko will like knowing about this feedback from you guys. By the way, @James Mayr, if you tag me in your message (or tag anyone really), it appears in the notifications panel, so that might be a way to make sure someone will know when you need help from them directly.
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James Mayr
I have the same issue: where exactly I have to post my assignments? Do I need tag them special that the proko-team will revisit it? often there are multiple videos for a topic and not every topic has an assignment sub-element to tag to post the assignments. I'm a little bit confused and If I want critique other students, I'm not motivated to scroll throw a ton of topics to see where are new work to critique (because critique assignments is IMHO a bidirectional part - If I like critique from other students I should critique other students work)
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Stan Prokopenko
Regarding your question about finding other students to critique - On each Course page or Lesson page that is part of a course, there is a button to "Add Course to Classroom". The main purpose of this is to put that course on your classroom for quick access and to track your progress on it. But another thing it does is start showing your fellow classmates' posts from that course in your newsfeed. Right now that's probably the best way to discover other students looking for help. I do agree though, we need some kind of dedicated area where we can find recent help requests. We'll try to figure something out.
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Stan Prokopenko
If the assignment is related to a specific lesson, post it in the discussions on that lesson page. If it's not lesson specific, like you're just practicing drawing figures but not a specific assignment from the figure course, you can post in the Learn category of the community.
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