Thousands of SpacedEd members have taken courses since we began our Public Beta in early July and we have been watching how people use the service and listening closely to everyone’s feedback.

As a result of this, we are about to make three important changes live on the site and we wanted to tell you a little bit about them.

1. One Email Per Day

Up to now, you will have received an email notification of unanswered questions for each course you are enrolled in. As most SpacedEd members are enrolled in more than one course, this can start to be somewhat overwhleming.

Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday September 30th, you will receive at most a single email notification per day, regardless of how many courses you are enrolled in. You will only receive it if you have unanswered questions in any of your courses.

This new combined email will reduce your inbox clutter and hopefully let you focus more on your SpacedEd courses. (We found that people start “tuning out” their daily emails when there are too many.) The combined email will feature a new unanswered question selected at random from one of your courses.

2. Improved Question Navigation

You will notice a new “Featured Question” box on your Dashboard. Similar to the new combined email, it will randomly select a new unanswered question from one of your courses. Below the question (and in the new email) there will be a simple but distinctive “Answer” button. This will take you to the question and allow you to submit your answer.

After answering a question, there will be a similarly distinctive “Next” button to take you to the next question in your current course  (or, if you are up to date on the current course, in another course with unanswered questions)

Once you complete all unanswered questions in all courses, the button will take you back to your Dashboard.

This will make it much easier to navigate from question to question effeciently – just follow the “bouncing arrow” button.

3. No New Questions While Current Ones Outstanding

Previously, new questions continued to accumulate in your queue regardless of whether you had answered the previous days new questions. With this change, you will never have more new questions than the total set for each scheduled mail (“Number of questions per delivery” when you are enrolling in a course.) This change should make it much harder to get too far behind in a course, which can be very demotivating if you build up a backlog of many new unanswered questions.

More To Come

We have lots of new features planned for SpacedEd in the coming months but we felt it was even more important to continue to fine tune the experience for learners and continue to make SpacedEd the most fun way to learn without even trying!

Please continue to send us your feedback and thanks for helping us make SpacedEd better than ever.