Fill-in-the-blanks bug

nevermind
 March 15, 2008, 04:23 PM posted in General Discussion

I do not know whether this issue has been discussed already, if so, I apologize. But, doing the Fill-in-the-blanks exercise,  whenever I hit the "view score" button, I get results like 4/5 or 0/6, though my answers were 100% correct (I double checked.). Besides, an outcome like 4/5 should be impossible considering the very nature of the exercise. Am I the only one experiencing this glitch? This problem doesn't seem to be browser/OS- dependent. I wouldn't pay to much attention to it, yet how can I trust the correction when I work on a high level lesson?

I know you all must be extremely busy, but I'd really appreciate any effort to fix this.

Another thing I've noticed - a lot of the older lessons have a size of 0mb, according to the links. But they play/open properly nevertheless. I'm afraid this bug will put off those who won't take chances...

By the way, Jenny, Ken, John and the rest of the CP staff and community - I owe you so much. (Pure propaganda and appeasement ;-) )

 

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calkins
 March 15, 2008, 05:32 PM

nevermind, here are a couple things that I've noticed: 1. It won't recognize characters. 2. Be careful with spaces between words. Depending on the word (or combination of words), you may need a space or no space. Examples: - 最近 (zuìjìn) must be typed as...zui4jin4 - 还好 (hái hǎo) must be typed as...hai2 hao3 Hope this helps!

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pchenery
 March 15, 2008, 06:00 PM

I have also experienced those problems. (although recently not so much). I do have problems with the lesson screen freezing up and then I have to restart the entire lesson. Also, I kept forgetting to add the number "5" for neutral tone words.

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nevermind
 March 15, 2008, 06:29 PM

Thanks for your quick help...though I fear we're talking about different exercises. In the Expansion section exercise I'm referring to (the 3rd one), I need to drag the characters into the gaps. I cannot type anything myself. Well, the exercise wouldn't be that useful for me anyway, as I've never really worked with pinyin.