Stability and Assignment Editor Updates: What do you think?

I’ve done a little debugging and work on the assignment editor.

Debugging:

• Previously the latest assignments and users showed at the bottom of each list and the oldest was selected by default when you came back to the page. These have been reversed and hopefully this will be more intuitive.
• Previously after completing an assignment and returning to the main page, you’d still sometimes hear assignment prompts read or keys pressed, like the assignment was being practiced, even though you couldn’t see it. I think this is fixed now.

Assignment Editor:

• I’ve made the text on the checkboxes shorter and moved them to spots I think are logical, generally above the control where you enter the data they relate to.
• I’ve added a phonetic answer and phonetic prompt area. These allow you to enter an alternate version of the answer to override the text-to-speech in the cases where it doesn’t read the word correctly. I wanted this for the word “aa”, as in the type of lava, but the text-to-speech pronounces the letter names, like it was the acronym for Alcoholics Anonymous. By entering the phonetic answer as “ah ah,” the text-to-speech pronounces it correctly. Phonetic prompt allows you to override the prompt text-to-speech in the same way. Leave these blank if you don’t need them.
• When previewing just one at a time, the preview now shows on the right-hand side in a fixed position so it never scrolls of the screen.
• If you want, you can embed a YouTube video in your assignment. Navigate to the video on YouTube, select the Share button, and then embed. Copy the code it gives you into the prompt. Make sure to uncheck “Speak prompt” as it would read all that code back to you!

It’s been a difficult last couple weeks for me. My baby just started daycare for the first time, and has already had a couple colds after barely ever being sick in his life. Everyone else in the house has been sick and exhausted too. And that’s not even to get into the other things in this world getting me down. If you are using Learn By Rainbow Typing Flashcards to help you study, I’d love to hear from you to know I’m not wasting my time with it. Leave me a comment telling me how you are using it or what feature(s) you’d like to me to work on next.

-Mary