It has been a while since we pushed our new reader. We have been working on our new interface for listing, searching and finding lessons. Today, we are launching our new Feed and Search pages. These replace the previous Learn – Home, Library, My Lessons, My Imports pages.
Recent Lessons
The first thing you see on the Feed page, are the most recent lesson from your last 4 courses in the Recent Lessons section at the top. Since you most often want to go to the last lesson you were on, we made these easily accessible. But, you can easily click through to the course or next and previous lessons in that course as well. Of course, if you want to find other lessons you can always click to see all of your lessons and search and filter them there.
Feed
Next you will see your Feed. The Feed shows you all lessons liked, completed and shared by other members in chronological order. The idea is that you should see an unending stream of lessons that other members are using and enjoying, or creating. A stream of recommended lessons. Scroll through until you find something you like.
If you see multiple lessons you like, you can just click the Save icon in the bottom right corner to add these lessons to My Lessons. You can adjust the levels of the lessons you want to have in your feed by clicking on the Settings gear icon beside Feed.
By default, all levels are selected. A good idea is to select what you think is your current level, the level above that and the level below it. If you think you are a Beginner 2, choose Beginner 1,2 and Intermediate 1.
Don’t worry too much about what your current level is. Over time you will find out which lessons suit you best. It’s also a good idea to change the level of your lessons so that sometimes you are really challenging your brain and other times you’re working more on fluency by studying lessons that are slightly easy for you.
Of course if you are looking for something in particular, you can search the Library for any tag, search term, title in the search box at right. You can use the filters at right on the Search results page to refine your search.
You can also browse the main Library page by clicking on Feed and choosing Search from the dropdown. On the Search page you can tab between the Library and My Lessons. In the Feed dropdown, you also have the option to view the new Getting Started course page for beginners.
Getting Started
The Getting Started course is a good place to start for beginners to simply follow a structured course plan one lesson at a time. As one lesson is completed, the next lesson is unlocked. Here we are trying to remove the need for new members to have to choose which lessons to study. Once they complete the course, they graduate to the Feed and can choose from lessons at their level.
Playlist
You will notice the new Playlist feature. This allows you to add lesson audio files to a central list that you can then listen to continuously or shuffle. This was a commonly requested feature for those of you who like to listen on the web app. Spoiler alert – this playlist will eventually be synced with and available on the mobile app as well! To add lessons to your Playlist, just click the Add to Playlist button which appears when you have added or saved the lesson.
As usual, let us know what you think. For now, you can still access all the old Classic pages in the Classic dropdown. We are excited for you all to try these new features!
