Things are still in the development stages. You might run into a bug or two. Not the creepy crawlies, but errors or sections of the website that just don’t work.
If you happen to run into one, post it here. We will get it fixed as soon as we can.
Thanks :D
A small bug:
While editing my profile, linebreaks of copied material weren’t interpreted correctly. I had to paste in xml-linebreaks myself.
Didn’t check yet if this is the case in other parts of the website.
Usability:
Beeing the click without thinking type of guy i am it took me some time before i realized that you have to join the support community before you are entitled to post to an discussion, e.g. to give a bug-report
Do you think to change that in the final version?
cu
Peter
Correlated Bugs:
While posting to a discussion, a single line-break isn’t interpreted correctly, a double line-break appears correctly.
When editing a post to correct the line-breaking, in the editor-window the single line-break shows up as a linebreak plus lots of spaces (so the text after the line-break looks indented) the double line-break shows up as a double line-break plus the same indentation.
Now: When closing the editor without correcting the indentation, the indented text shows up scrambled in the published post: Highly indented, changed font-face, using the whole width of the webpage, leaving the window of the post.
Peter
Hi, i think i found some things you could improve:
The behaviour of the editor-window shows some oddities: 1. The moment you indent some text, any change of the paragraph-style from “Normal” to one of the “Header#”-styles doesn’t work correctly. 2. When you write a line, do a return, you can’t change the font-face or font-size nor font-style, font-color or background-color, those buttons are greyed out. You have to write some text in that line, activate parts of that text, only then you can change font-face and font-size. That behaviour is fine while you format your text after writing it, but it differs from the behaviour of word or other text-editors and doesn’t allow to decide on formatting before writing the actual text. 3. the “picture”-button should allow to actually upload the picture to the site, not only reference it while you have to publish it elsewhere. 4. the “upload photos” functionality should allow to edit those photos after the upload. Yes, you can resize them, but you cannot undo your action simply, you don’t get any infomation what exactly you did to your picture etc. 5. the buttons at the end of the editor-window need a double-click to work properly – in my browser anyway.
Maybe you know all this already may even be that these are features and no bugs ;-)
Peter
another bug in your post-engine:
In the post above i numbered the different problems i found, but the engine decided not to show these numbers to the public. In edit-mode the numbering is still intact, but the engine translates the different numbers (1. ; 2. ; ...) to linebreaks.
Aah, and the engine changes the font-size in the numbered list.
Maybe that the numbering is correctly displayed if i use a double linebreak? I will test it:
1. First line
2. Second line
Here again with single linebreaks:
1. First line 2. Second line
As you see, the numbers are gone, no matter how many linebreaks, but the reformatting of the font-size and the alignment only appears with the single linebreak.
Can’t create a course anymore!
the lesson-editor needs definitely some refinement ;-) do you have any idea when you will enhance the functionality of this crucial part of the platform? Beside the correction of some serious bugs, please think of enhancements like “copy-paste”-functionality for MS-word documents. This would be VERY valuable and enhance the over all usability of the platform immensely.
There seems to be a bug with the categorisation of communities. More specific: The category “Education&Training” doesnt show any community despite the fact that there are three communities minimum which are categorized under this label (blearning, cooperative learning and espenstrasse)
it is the same with other categories, e.g. sport & recreation.
Idea: when implementing the update to kill the “discussion-bug” you introduced involuntarily the bug that the new communities now cant be categorized anymore, or, more specific, that their categories arent listed anymore. The system knows the chosen category though as they show up on the main pages of the communities
Hi, caught a bug in the discussion-editor:
When inserting a link to a picture (using the !command) any spaces in the filename (i know, that isnt normal, but anyway it happens to exist ;)) are translated to the coding “%20” – and no, the address isn’t found correctly anymore, no picture is shown.
Another bug in the lesson-editor:
creating ordered lists will show the numbered list correctly in edit-mode, but in normal viewing-mode the list is just an unordered list with bullets.
debates in graphic design
there is a mismatch between the home page and the debates page on who posted the initial debate. ‘lechuck’ on home, ‘adam’ on debates
E.g. in my lesson “A meditative approach to therapy” Actually the list is an ordered one.
Most of the communities arent listed on the community page. Dont know why
Cant create a tutoring lesson. Maybe that is no bug but just tried to early ;-)
When I signed up, I received two mails to verify my email addres, both containing only the logo of learnhub. Is this normal? I also encountered a bug when finishing the sign-up process, which the system tells me, is reported.
I’m liking what I see so far. A lot of potential here!
Few bugs I came across:
Presentations: 1. Could not upload either a PPT or PPTX file. Kicked back an error. Is there a file size limit and if so could that be posted on the upload page? (Update: Received the error for both but was able to view the PPT in the course. Error may not be accurate?) 2. Once a PPT has been uploaded, if I modify/update it at a later date, it would be nice to be able to replace the original file with the new one rather than to have to create an entirely new presentation.
When creating a course: It would be nice to be able to build content from within the course shell rather than to have to exit the course, upload files, presentations, etc. and then relink from within the course. I think a simple button at the top of the course for New Page, New Presentation, New Video would suffice.
When taking a course: It would be nice if the student saw the closed shell of the course rather than all presentations. Hard to explain in writing but when I created a course and linked a Presentation, it showed fine but then the student was presented with the My Presentations view and not the Curriculum view. This may not occur for students but even instructors would prefer to have their courses encapsulated so as to avoid “cross-polination.”
Just checked out the AuthorStream link from the PPT presentation I was able to upload. I am a little disappointed that there is nothing letting the author know that their presentation is being outsourced without attribution to the author, rather the more generic Savvica. For this to go beyond beta, you will need to let folks know that their material is not protected and you will want to ensure that attribution to AuthorStream denotes the originating author rather than their host.
Will you be adding additional question types in the Test tool? The multiple choice is the old stand-by but perhaps the addition of fill-in-the-blank, short answer/essay would provide a platform for the subjective assessments that many of my faculty prefer.
Would it also be possible to have the multiple choice questions allow for multiple correct answers?
Trivia Bug:
Create a question inside a course and try to publish to a community as well. It will clear out the options and a validation error will say you never made selected an answer. Fill in the options again and and hit submit and you get the 505 error page saying its a technical bug.
If you create a trivia question and its not attached to a community then its fine. I had a made a video to show the bug and upload it but didn’t the video upload was too slow.
I was guessing that Support Community could have its own videos and it make sense to upload videos there but wasn’t sure if I was uploading it in my current course or this community.
Maybe things are being worked on as I type, but I’m trying to change my “lessons” to be available only to a course and the system doesn’t seem to be saving my changes.
I created one discussion and it made two. The discussion is called “Kathy Sierra is rumored to be coming back”
I have no way of deleting the duplicate that I know of
you don’t get authority points for publishing test. I’m thinking this is still in the works.
I was surprised to find the appearance of !http://… on the following page:
Talking about life- Text What is happiness? !http://… Owner’s Name By: nelliemuller
Is there anything I can do to remove it? Thank you.
I tried to create my first lesson page. But, found the process frustrating. I would highlight some text to bold, change colour, etc, and then I would click on the action I wanted to take, such as bold, and then it would change more than was highlighted.
I tried several times with a few browsers and the editor seems to be willy nilly as it edits more than I want or does not appear to edit as all, such as with font changes.
It seems some people from previous posts are having issues with the RTE in the lesson plan area. When do you think this will be resolved?
I like what you are trying to achieve. Just a few issues need to be worked out :)
Hi,
I can’t get a powerpoint uploaded on my WebQuest page.
I tried to change my profile picture and it seems to have changed in some places but not all. The new photo appears when I click on edit profile but not on my workspace after I save it and exit the edit page. The old photo appears on the activity feed but the new photo shows in the top right hand corner of the homepage but not the inside pages.
If I edit a lesson and share it with my course, everything works fine. i.e. It shows up under the Curriculum for the course, and all is well. But, if I go back to my profile and click on Lessons, my lessons revert back to the state prior to my editing without me clicking on anything. It happens simply by me visiting the Lessons page. It’s really frustrating.
Did you set the “Publish”-button to “Yes”?
I figured out what the problem was…. i had the lesson edit page up on two computers and so one would always autosave back to its contents, overwriting my new changes.
Indeed to bad that I didn’t think of that situation! It happened to me with the pages opened in two browserwindows on the same computer; took me half a day ‘til I figured it out – just didn’t remember that mess when I read your problem …
http://learnhub.com/test/take/182-vocabulary-building-exercises
If 5 people have taken the test, and I got a score of 9/10, how can the average be 10/10? Or did I misread the info?
I just got hit pretty hard by a bug.
I spent about 45 minutes researching and writing out a five-question quiz on philosophical history, with long queries, and long explanations to each question… only to have it disappear because of an error after I clicked “submit.” That was heart-breaking.
Apparently I didn’t add questions to my quiz. I don’t know what it means by that or what I should have done. But the bug I’m really concerned with isn’t that error, but that the software clears out all the information after you submit it so that if there’s an error accpeting it the info is gone and you can’t just fix the error and resubmit it without typing it all out again.
I mean, say I forgot to type in a title and after I hit submit it tells me I can’t do so until I type in a title. I shouldn’t lose everything else I entered.
Other than this the site has been great.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but when I play trivia, I only get trivia questions from the French community, which I am not a member of. I don’t mind doing trivia questions from communities I’m not a part of, but I though it would be random which community it takes the question from.
You’re right Digital Rain… it is a bug and we’re fixing it. It seems to be going down the list of Trivia questions rather than randomizing them. We are also doing a few other small changes to Trivia, so it should be coming up soon!
Thanks!
I think it happens when you press the mouse button twice. No matter, we should not allow you to post twice in a row… this happens to in the activity feed… if someone presses a button a few times it picks it up in the activity feed shows 2-3-4 times.
When I join a course, I make sure to join it three times for good measure.
csskarma and I were talking and he mentioned that there is a problem with code displaying in answering trivia questions. Apparently, when one puts code into the text boxes, the code doesn’t get displayed. In order to display code, he suggested adding htmlentities() in the php for the trivia question/answer output . Hope this helps!
Kim—Your completely right. You can’t display code in either trivia or tests. In lessons we have the ability to at the < pre > tag as well as the @ tags to show html source code. This is definitely something we should add to tests and trivia as well. We will add this to our to-do list and hopefully we can get it out the door as quickly as possible.
Thanks :)
Something very strange going on in my lesson editing window… can’t get the text editor. There’s a code-only tiny window down near the bottom left of the page…and I can’t get any input to take in the publish drop down. This is NEW. Until I tried to put these last three lessons up, everything was normal…
What do I do?
I can’t open the “contacts” link. I guess someone might have invited me to become a contact but unfortunately it always shows up that I caught a bug. Yesterday and today again. So I hope it can soon be fixed.
It seems like the site is slow to update content. For example, when I make changes to a course or a lesson, other pages that reference these aren’t updated.
rich text editor has some bugs i think… specially with bullets and other formating things. the common problem is when you use justified or center allignment thing say on 14th line all the line before 14th wil be centralised as well. and bullets are just gets me crazy….
please that could be worked upon.
I am currently facing few problems while answering some questions in GMAT Question Bank. 1. I am not able to write mathematical formulas correctly while commenting on some questions. Need to have a lesson on this. 2. I am getting a bug problem while browsing the question bank very frequently today. 3. I may be advised how to add my own questions.
A curious thing happened to me… I published a lesson in 2 communities (checked them both before publishing) and it appears twice in each community. In my lessons page it appears only once. Because of the “coincidence” I believe that a bug may exist.
You can check it here: http://risk.learnhub.com/lessons and here: http://project-management.learnhub.com/lessons
I also noticed that I can delete the “extra” lesson inside the community lessons page; I’ll do this right after someone have the opportunity to check the pages to see whether it’s really a bug.
Cheers!
I have run into a very recent bug while trying to upload PowerPoint presentations in the presentation tab (under the Lessons tab). I uploaded one presentation, a week and a half ago, but I haven’t been able to load one for the last couple of days. The files are about 3 MB, in the older format, and the computer churns for a while before reporting that there is an error, and I get a ‘looks like you’ve found a bug…’ message. I’ve got a couple queued up that I was going to upload, but I’m having no luck.
Also, I have a contact request that I have tried to accept several times, but every time I click on it, I get the error message ‘looks like you’ve found a bug…’ I’ve accepted about ten other contacts in the last two days, but I can’t accept that one.
Hi Vpitman,
There are some known issues with uploading videos/audio to lessons. Most of the time, waiting for a little longer does do the trick.
As for the issue with contact requests, the dev team can fix it.
Cheers!
Hey Guys!
I just found that when i post a comment in any of the lesson in my community, i can see edit tag under comments by other users as well.
That’s why i left the screen shot last time as well.
Actually this happens sometime. And yes still happening, last time it happened today only.
You want me to take another screen shot?
Hi Gaurav,
Is it happening again? If so, then I guess it should be raised as a bug. Do let us know.
Cheers, Avinash
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