September 1,
2022
What is coming for the new and improved education section?
Everything! Let's break it down to make it easy to understand.
Design
Everything in regards to the education section will be receiving
a makeover. This includes the Home Page, all the modules on the
side panel, the vocabulary tracker and flash cards system, and just
about every other feature under the sun! Everything is being
refurnished.
Compatibility
With the new design changes, a significant amount of
compatibility improvements will be made for users across different
browsers and platforms. Additionally, better care will be taken to
ensure that users have the best experience possible with improved
conditional cases.
New Lesson and
Course Editor
Presently the course and lesson editor has to be done by hand.
Every piece of HTML you see rendered in each lesson is written out
in an editor. The new editor that is being tested throughout the
site to compose new threads or manage the club wiki for example
will be used to create new lessons. Additionally, a full back-end
system will be made to better improve the author's ability to
manage their own classrooms which will open up many doors as it
will no longer be exclusive to Jappleng official editors but for
the public as well. An authorization process will likely be needed
before a user is given permission to start submitting their
lessons.
What this means is that it will be vastly faster to release and
edit lessons, create new courses, manage media libraries for the
course/lessons and even give everyone a chance to teach something.
We plan to open lessons not just about Japanese but other related
courses as well.
Rewriting of
Lessons and New lessons
Old lessons will be partially rewritten and also completely
reformatted with the new editor. This will take some time so please
bare with me as I go through each lesson and edit them. There's a
lot of lessons. Likewise, after the new changes are complete, I
will begin uploading new lessons and continue work on the new
edition of JPLearn! which is re-written from scratch thanks to the
feedback received. Many new a-la-carte lessons will be released as
well.
New Sections and
Features
There will be new sections and features that befit these new
changes. For instance, it will be possible to track your progress
on how well you know parts of a language such as Adjectives, Verbs,
Nouns etc… How many Kanji you know, how many kana you know, and
other progress related information. Much of it will be an automated
process while some parts will require user input.
There will also be a timer system which will permit users to
start and pause while studying a lesson (any lesson) and it will be
recorded on a per-lesson basis as well as a total progress. This
should be helpful to get feedback if people are struggling with
their lessons or if people want to know how long they have been
studying Japanese.
Other new features will be announced when it becomes closer to
its release.
Release
timeframe
As of today, the new home page along with its related modules
have been released in its new format. I will be taking a 5 day
vacation after submitting this post and because of this, any future
release will have to wait until September 7. New features and
sections will be released as they are completed.
Thank you for your continued support, I hope these changes are
exciting to hear!
