Thanks a lot for this detailed feedback. I had never heard of anki used to ask the whole room to review, interesting. I just shared it on anki subreddit
If I can, I’d strongly suggest you to edit slightly your introduction to add that you are the teacher and that it’s an English class for US students. Personally, I was not sure at first you were student or teacher, and what kind of things you taught (I’d suspect that teaching math would be more complex than foreign vocabulary; even if I’ve never tested it with classes.)
You mention coding, you also mentioned anki. Did you think about reaching to the anki community for help? You probably know already that anki has quite a lot of add-ons. That means that dozens of devs know the codebase very well and could have created features and work with you to adapt the app. That may have added more freedom to your experimentation. I have little doubt that this concept of trying new stuff would interest enough people that, at least for simple changes, you’d have found devs offering some of their time.
For the context, I’m a maintainer of AnkiDroid, I contributed considerably to Anki’s codebase and created more than 60 add-ons myself. So I’d admit I am extremely biased here.
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Thanks a lot for this detailed feedback. I had never heard of anki used to ask the whole room to review, interesting. I just shared it on anki subreddit
If I can, I’d strongly suggest you to edit slightly your introduction to add that you are the teacher and that it’s an English class for US students. Personally, I was not sure at first you were student or teacher, and what kind of things you taught (I’d suspect that teaching math would be more complex than foreign vocabulary; even if I’ve never tested it with classes.)
You mention coding, you also mentioned anki. Did you think about reaching to the anki community for help? You probably know already that anki has quite a lot of add-ons. That means that dozens of devs know the codebase very well and could have created features and work with you to adapt the app. That may have added more freedom to your experimentation. I have little doubt that this concept of trying new stuff would interest enough people that, at least for simple changes, you’d have found devs offering some of their time.
For the context, I’m a maintainer of AnkiDroid, I contributed considerably to Anki’s codebase and created more than 60 add-ons myself. So I’d admit I am extremely biased here.