Suggestion: Track your progression through a "Complete Lesson" button
4yr
Tobey Tobella
Hi Proko team, first of all thanks so much to allow me to be part of the Proko 2.0 beta.
To the point, for the ones that are halfway through the courses I thought it would be useful a "complete lesson" button such as in the Aron Blaise's tutorials website. It would add up in your completion percentage at your "courses" panel and give you a nice sense of achievement boost without having to rewatch lessons you have already done.
Example: I'm currently doing Mannequinization assignments so I'd like to mark all the previous content of the figure course as "completed".
I hope it's helpful,
Tobey
4yr
This thread is one of the most popular so I figured I should summaries all the updates for anyone reading this in the future:
1. You can now manually complete a lesson on the lesson page.
2. You can also un-complete any lesson.
3. If you finished a full course on the old site and don't want to go through hundreds of lessons to manually complete them, contact support and an admin get easily bulk complete all the lessons in a course for you.
4yr
Ya that's something that's been on my mind. Not sure how to prevent people from abusing it. The reason this is even a question is because we have some gamification features that are currently hidden (need to test with real data before launching). As you use the site, you get points for most actions and possibly awarded with badges. If people can manually mark things as done, some will abuse it to try to get more badges. Students who are actually here to study and keep track of progress shouldn't have a worse experience just because some might abuse it. So I think we'll be able to figure it out. Just have to give it some thought.
Martin Bühler
4yr
Personally i think the Complete Lesson button is not a bad Idea. It will always be hard to integrate courses which were already available earlier in the rating. People who already did study the course could use this second walkthrough as a possibility to improve and strengthen the skills first learned, but i think many do not really want that, if they are forced.
And if we are all honest, badges are nice but it does mean nothing in the end to really improve your artwork if the work is not really done. Even if there is no such autocomplete function people who want to cheat will surely get some possibilities. And in the end a rating is not really easy, i mean someone could spend a lifetime really learning for example the figure drawing course and putting his heart into it, while another does 40 courses by only skimming over it.
A comparison between those two kinds is surely not easy. Maybe a function like the one Udemy provides, where you can hide courses which you did finish, or you which to ignore until a later date in a second List would help to keep people on track, and the course list short and orderly. The "Course finished" button could be only to mark the courses for people as finished without giving them any points to keep track.
4yr
i miss the chapter number on lesson titles to keep track of the topics... now it feels more linear, but maybe it was the intention?
4yr
First of all, thank you for inviting me to this great portal. I would like to second on this suggestion, however. Because here is so much material, that it would help to follow a track. As I see it, to have completed a course, or parts of it, is a personal decision that ”this is the best I could do” within my learning zone. That’s regardless of how many times I’ve watched the videos. You mentioned in one of your vlogs that when learning anatomy we pick up some parts, forget, and then re-learn later on. That’s something I can relate to, after having done the Figure Drawing Fundamentals. It helped me to learn a lot, but I haven’t mastered anything. That’s why learning is so fascinating. Thus, I believe having completed a course should be an intrinsic reward, or a roadmap. Perhaps external points, like badges, could be given for posting assignments, or writing comments. I’ll end here, because it’s almost midnight in Sweden. And I’m light years away from being skilled enough to quit my day job.
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