Darwin

Uber-minimal active learning tool for you and your friends.

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Uber-minimal active learning tool for you and your friends.

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Clew

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A simple active learning tool for you and your friends. All this app does is test you daily with questions from anything you're learning. Hoping to expand it soon with more features like flash cards, pooled questions + mobile & mac app for a better user experience. I know similar tools exist - I just wanted one that's purely functional, completely free, looks good and allows for seamless collaboration. Android app on Google Play Some research: 225 study meta-analysis: Active learning (as opposed to lecture-based learning) increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Let me know what you think ~ feature suggestions and such :)

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9yr ago

Looks great - but as soon as I went to test and login with Facebook, I got hit with an error. Any insight? Thanks!

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9yr ago

Clew

Maker

@barrettshepherd Hmm that's strange! Didn't pick that error up on my end, but it might just be a temp. server issue. Could you try again? :)

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9yr ago

@ujzeee Fixed. Thanks!

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9yr ago

Clew

Maker

@barrettshepherd Cheers! :)

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9yr ago

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@barrettshepherd Still getting an error. You should not display stacktraces publicly for security reasons.

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9yr ago

Clew

Maker

@simoelalj Thanks for the heads up! It's definitely not supposed to show a stack trace ~ looking into it :)

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9yr ago

I like the minimalism of the app and the idea to pay by adding new questions. Some feedback if you're interested: 1. Would love to have a link to go deeper on the topic of the question (eg : Course: History, Question on turkey -> wikipedia link or a video link 😊). 2. I'm redirected on the home directly after signup (http://bit.ly/2iDCw4Z), I'm a little confused because I don't really know which subject I want to search right now. Maybe an onboarding process with some suggestions will help to understand the experience. 3. Question moderation could improve the experience (eg: Course: Computer Science - on 4 questions I have 2 questions that are irrelevant) 4. Have you tried to create one topic only using questions? It could help to understand what is the experience you need to create to get users understand the value of your product. Give them quick wins and feeling they've learned something in less than 30s. Looking forward your next implementations!!

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9yr ago

Clew

Maker

@jorisrenaud Thanks very much for the feedback! Will definitely try to implement those ideas!

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9yr ago

Awesome product. I love simple learning apps like this. I hope you get the ability to expand to other platforms in the future. Congratulations on the launch!

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9yr ago

Clew

Maker

@dariomvvaccaro Thanks! Definitely hoping to expand it. I wanted to keep Facebook as the main login option since it's much easier to connect people :) A lot of college courses already have un-official Facebook groups, so it makes for a smoother user experience when users can easily see their friends courses.

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9yr ago

Now that I've got into it, the experience of the quizes is nice! I think it would be useful to add these features soon: 1. when you get an answer wrong, provide the opportunity to see what the right answer was - otherwise you're not really learning 2. mark a question as too easy / too hard so you can automatically create different "levels" within each subject 3. mark a question as suspect (if you think someone has created a question with the wrong answer)

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9yr ago

Clew

Maker

@dancunningham Thanks for the input! :) Will add those features soon!

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9yr ago

I like the idea, I'm not sure starting with "Add a question" is the best experience. I'm feeling the "blank page" effect there and don't really know what sort of thing to add. Letting people play with a few great example questions first to get a feel for what's a good question might guide people better into the experience, and encourage high-quality contributions. Same with course/subject and topics (unsure what the difference is or if I have to select both) - choosing from a list or browsing a directory would be easier than starting with a blank box and having to type something. Good luck!

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9yr ago

Clew

Maker

@dancunningham Thanks for the feedback! Just pushed a default course (so the homepage isn't as empty and people have an example to checkout). The hierarchy is supposed to be course->topics, meaning a course had many topics: will make that clearer with with UI. The directory idea is great! Going to implement it soon! :)

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9yr ago

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