Wish list
New features and integrations are in the works based on this wishlist.
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Sync / Highlight Audio Recording to Story
I'd like to stop at any chosen word in the text and restart listening from there....
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Male Audio Recording Voice
It would be good to have a male for the story audio recording instead of only a female voice.
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Move Commands from Bottom to Right Sidebar
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Add Level Indicators to Stories
Each time we update the Current Stories page, new stories appear below the featured one. We can choose based on interest, but stories vary in...
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Read Later Option
It would be great to read them and then bookmark them to come back later for review and listening practice.
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Mobile: Add a "change font size" feature on the screen when the text is displayed
only when we get to the point ot the story do we realize if the text font is not adapted, for example too small. it is cumbersome to go back to the...
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In the writing section, help the learner reuse the new words and expressions in their answer
When we answer the open question, we have no longer access to the story. Some readers manage to remember the new words or expressions that the story...
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Options for adding words to lists
At the moment. Words automatically are added in Hackchinese list. It would be nice for learners to have the control over when a word should be added,...
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Microsoft Edge Hides Master Adjustement
On certain screens, Microsoft Edge hides the Mastery Adjustment and it is not clickable
- Pro: Allow Submission of Recording after Writing Submission
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Improve Display on iPad mini 5th generation
On Safari on the iPad mini 5th generation, when accessing the website in portrait mode, the bottom navigation bar disappears.
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Add 'History' to Past Stories
It would be great to have the option to review past recommended stories in the Past Story, instead of only the featured story.
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Add: Separate [Comment Section] in Homework Section
Maybe it would be a good idea to have a separate comment section for when teacher wants to give us extra explanations /comments/suggestions on...
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Simplify "Corrected Answer" Section
It’s better to show the corrected answer as a whole first, and then provide the breakdown of the corrections as a subsection — for example, under...
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Add Sentence by Sentence Translation
The English translation is currently paragraph by paragraph. Make it instead sentence by sentence so that it is easier to make sure our understanding...
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Shortcut Keys to Read Story/Mark Word Knowledge
It would be great to have shortcut keys to quickly mark a word as known or not, without having to open the word dictionary. These could also be used...
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Pro: Add Creative Conversation Practice
How about giving students the creative freedom by letting them 'continue' or 'end' the story themselves? For example, if it’s a conversation,...
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Make it clearer that the email only has the Featured Story
Sometimes the mail starts with some text in small type with a content that is not related to the rest of the email etc. For example, today 26/4 I had...
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Pro - Revise Length of the 'Read Aloud' Portion of Text
The current logic selects the first paragraph as the portion of text to be read out loud....
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Pro - Field to Enter Intended Meaning of the Chinese Answer, in English
For learners using Pro features involving submitting free-form answers in Chinese (e.g., to open-ended questions), add an optional text input field....
