Really having a bad day. Firstly, I’m trying to enquire about why when I’m trying to share a lesson I now get ‘pending’ and a note saying it may take a few days to approve. This is new.
Secondly, I am having problems posting. I occasionally get a message saying I don’t have permission to view the content (what content?) then when I posted on Open Forum my post doesn’t seem visible.
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Regarding sharing lessons - We now require approval from a staff member or Chief Librarian for first time sharers. This is because of the high volume of low-quality lessons users have been sharing. Once a lesson has been approved, you will be able to share other lessons without needing to wait.
We have just finished adding this functionality but normally we will be approving or rejecting Pending lessons at least on a weekly basis.
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Thank you for the reply. I am really not a first time sharer though. I have shared a lot of material over the years in several languages especially Romanian and Slovene. As a language teacher by profession I wouldn’t share something of dubious quality. This is the first Hungarian stuff I’ve tried to share though so is it language specific?
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Good idea! Will you now also - at least gradually - remove the low-quality courses? I hope so.
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That sounds excellent, I gave up using the built in content as some of it is dreadful e.g. poor sound quality, someone speaking very bad French etc.
So, I have some reservations and am now getting a bit fed up. If you felt it necessary to bring in this new measure did you firstly make sure you had enough people available to check and approve before you started so it was viable? Why is it taking so long? A weekly basis seems pretty slow when you have so many languages to cover. And do you have librarians for every language because I’ve been using Hungarian which is a beta language and when you sign up for it there is a note saying it is not monitored by staff. You also said it is for first time sharers but this is clearly not the case as I have been sharing for years but I can no longer share as I am still waiting for the illusive approval. I have always enjoyed editing learning materials I find and sharing them with others but feel now it is futile.
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@blotski After some more discussion we decided to require approval for all non-Librarian users, even those users who had already shared lessons in the past. This was done because the volume of low-quality or copyrighted content was simply too great to keep ignoring.
At the moment we will be approving/rejecting Pending lessons once a week. In most cases we don’t think there is any urgency in having lessons wait a few days. When we notice users sharing good content, we will be reaching out to them to invite them to be Librarians so that they can then bypass the approval process.
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Is it really once a week?
In reference to this forum post.
Do the librarian applications follow the same speed? I haven’t received any response (not even negative) for what looks to be half a month.
I wouldn’t want to think that the measure effectively deterred, and will keep doing so in the near future, any new contributions and contributors because that would be ridiculous. Yet I could be so easily refuted with some public statistics on the matter…
Maybe it is a visual bug and it was refused?
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My contributions were refused. Although I fully understood the reasons when they were eventually explained in an email (copyright) I now find the process a bit stressful and have decided to no longer share any materials I make. I’ll just keep myself to myself.
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It is once a week, every Monday (sometimes Sunday or Tuesday) if there is a holiday.
I’ll look for this particular lesson as pending lessons have been checked at least twice since May 13th, it’s odd that it hasn’t been either approved or rejected.
Librarian emails get replied to fairly often. I see that I replied to your request on May 15th and didn’t receive a reply afterwards.
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Ok, I have a question on this: to avoid having to scroll down and tick each lesson separately in a course after adding new lessons, I have always simply selected all lessons and set them to “shared”.
Now, however, it seems as if that sends the entire course to approval, every lesson anew.
Is this actually the case? Could you program it so already approved lessons don’t get accidentally sent back to Pending?
(For example: I have been slowly adding all the chapters of Les Misérables to a course in French, and it seems people have been using it judging by the “likes” - that is hundreds of lessons…)
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I ended up doing the same. I wonder what the use case is for an already Shared lesson to become Pending (for validation?) when you share it again. I honestly can not come up with any.
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That is odd. I definitely do not recall receiving anything but I can see now that you sent another mail to me today that unfortunately went straight to the junk for some reason.
Thank you for the followup, I will answer there.
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I don’t think it’s an intended behavior. It seems to be an accidental by-product of the approval system: as far as I can tell it sends a lesson to “pending” once you register the status “shared”. There doesn’t seem to be a failsafe to stop an already shared lesson going back to pending.
FWIW, my Misérables lessons still show “pending” today (Tuesday). I added new lessons on Saturday…
(There shouldn’t be any copyright problems, since the book is in the public domain, and the recordings I use (with attribution in the course description) are from librivox…)
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