Add Help to Android App

2 votes

Love love the app but it would be much better if you explained how each of the options work. When I tap help I just get the option to suggest a new feature but can't find any text on how the app is supposed to work. For example cram mode...have no idea how that works or why you would use it. Finally discovered on my own that I could limit reading questions to subsections by using the custom feature at the bottom of the list. I do like how I can read questions by subsection and then immediately take a quiz on those questions. Also love the ability to take practice exams and have them tracked. Play app. Been using it on a Note 8.

Planned Suggested by: D. Draper (11 Apr, '19) • Upvoted: 14 Apr, '21 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

11 Apr, '19
Richard Bateman Admin
This is definitely something we're considering the best way to do; our strategy has been first to attempt to make things discoverable / intuitive and then to see where that falls short of what is needed and add it in =] This is clearly an area we need to improve, we're just trying to decide how to do it.
12 Apr, '19
Don Draper
Thank you Richard. One last suggestion is to offer a "narrowing or focused" practice exam. What this would do is remove any questions you have seen from any prior exams. This way you are assured of seeing every question if you took 12 (13?) exams in a row. Of course it would need to either indicate "exhausted" or pull a few already seen to make up the last exam. It could track how many have been "seen" vs "unseen" and then of course the option to reset back to "all" or revert to normal exams.
12 Apr, '19
Richard Bateman Admin
Additional suggestions would be better to add in a separate suggestion so other users can vote on them, but we actually have tried what you suggest in the past and found it to do more harm than good; study mode will give you the visibility that you want in a targeted way, but doing that with practice exams tended to give people a negatively skewed (and frustrating) idea of their progress. Practice exams are not a study method, they are a benchmark tool to see how close you are.