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Inquiry's "vul. stopper" lesson Some feedback

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Posted 2012-June-22, 03:04

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First feedback: it was awesome. Despite my unimpressive score, I found it well presented, challenging and helpful.
Now, some minor nitpicks:
a) The "rewind" and "go to end" buttons should probably be less prominent. It's not a function people will often want to use, and clicking one accidentally can be very annoying. Which brings me to:
b) If possible, divide into chapters / hands / etc, to make it easier to find a specific section.
c) There were some minor errors - one time the lesson says "spades" instead of "clubs", at one point the quiz offers a choice of a card you're not holding, etc. A "report mistake" button in the lesson would make it much easier to report these - even the ones I do remember reading through, I don't have an easy way to pinpoint for you guys.

I hope more of these are coming. Great work.
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Posted 2012-June-22, 09:09

View PostAntrax, on 2012-June-22, 03:04, said:

(I hope this is the right forum)
First feedback: it was awesome. Despite my unimpressive score, I found it well presented, challenging and helpful.


Thanks for the kind words.


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a) The "rewind" and "go to end" buttons should probably be less prominent. It's not a function people will often want to use, and clicking one accidentally can be very annoying. Which brings me to:
b) If possible, divide into chapters / hands / etc, to make it easier to find a specific section.


I think the current design works best for short material. One hand or two at most. I have written some short ones, not sure if they will be made available to the public or not. But I agree with that ways to jump around would be a great improvement and would make longer lessons easier review. However the tool used to create the material does not allow for that at this time. The jump to end or beginning buttons are not real useful, I agree, but again they are part of the existing tool.

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c) There were some minor errors - one time the lesson says "spades" instead of "clubs", at one point the quiz offers a choice of a card you're not holding, etc. A "report mistake" button in the lesson would make it much easier to report these - even the ones I do remember reading through, I don't have an easy way to pinpoint for you guys.


I took a quick run through and didn't find the quiz with one wrong card. I didn't look (yet) for the spade when I should have said have said club. If anyone notices either of these mistakes, please note which of the 14 hands the "typo" is on and let me know so I can fix it.

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I hope more of these are coming. Great work.


There are more to come from me if people seem to like this one. For instance, my squeeze lesson for example have been in this format for a long time (each of the six or so squeeze lessons are about the same length or longer than the vulnerable stopper one). I guess they need proofing to fix things like the nitpicks you listed above. Others will present lessons as well, hopefully many others.


Also, I should thank bd71 for letting me one of his hands from the forum and for proof reading the file, along with other proof readers of rain, diane_eva, and nickf. Any mistake that got past them was probably introduced by me after there proofing.
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Posted 2012-June-22, 17:06

I liked this a lot! Great use of the medium.
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Posted 2012-June-22, 23:12

I went through it again, hand 4 offers to lead the 4 but you have the 5. Like I said, nitpick :)
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Posted 2012-June-23, 00:33

View PostAntrax, on 2012-June-22, 23:12, said:

I went through it again, hand 4 offers to lead the 4 but you have the 5. Like I said, nitpick :)


Thanks. Unlike printed books or distributed cd's, the LD documents can be fixed when mistakes creep in. So changing things like that is easy. I went in and swapped out the 5 for the 4...
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