As we continue developing our next generation Linguist system we have not been updating our current system as often. However, this month we decided to pull Marius away from the new system and onto our existing system, in order to implement some key changes.
Many of you will have noticed that you can now see the number of Discussion participants in the Discussion List without needing to open up the event form. You will see that events are now identified as Full if they already have 4 participants or you can see how many spaces are still available 1, 2, 3 or 4. As we have added more tutors and more discussion times, it has been more inconvenient to find out which events have spaces available. Now, it is that much easier to sign up for Discussions.
You will also notice that we have introduced big, blue buttons to identify the main action on most pages. This was done to help new members get started. At the same time, we have simplified the sign up process for 1 on 1 Conversations. This process was not as clear as it could be and we think it works much better now. In the past, some of you thought you could only have a 1 on1 with your assigned tutor so we have made it more clear that you can pick any tutor you want and select an available time from their schedule.
As you can see from our content list below, we have continued adding new content to the library. What we have also done is to rearrange the categories in the library so that we now have more categories with fewer items in each. This way, things should be easier to find and to search for. Still on the theme of content, we have also added additional items to the Sentence Pronunciation section. You can now select from 6 different content items when you are using the Sentence Pronunciation tools.
Finally, we have corrected the persistent problem with funny characters appearing in the content that you import into the system and in your writing submissions. Now when you import content from the web or submit writing for correction, any funny characters will be instantly replaced by characters our system recognizes. The strange characters are now a thing of the past!
