What is OUINO - OUINO Guide - Keeping Track of Your Progress
Regardless of the language-learning method you're using, you need to be able to track
your progress.
As a language learner, you need to see yourself improving.
That's probably the best way to keep up your motivation to learn.
If you don't know what you've done and where to go, you'll most likely get lost and your
motivation will go down the drain.
In OUINO, you can easily see which lessons you took, and how well you understood the
material.
You'll find that some lessons in OUINO will only be taken once and you'll never need to
go back to it, but other lessons may require more practice before you get a full grasp
on the material.
There are two main ways to keep track of the progress you make in the lessons; the exercise
scores and medals, and the Knowledge Stars.
How to track your progress with the exercise scores and medals.
The first method to keep track of your progress is your actual score on the exercises.
After you complete each lesson, you will have to complete the multiple-level exercises that
follow.
You will receive a score for each level you complete.
If you get a high enough score, you will also receive a medal for that level.
Here are the scores you need in order to receive a medal within the exercises:
Bronze medal – 70-79% Silver medal – 80-89%
Gold medal – 90-99% Fluency award – 100%
If you feel like you know the material in the lesson quite well, you can challenge yourself
by taking the hardest level without taking any of the other ones.
If you decide to skip a level, your score will be updated for the easier levels also.
It is not mandatory to complete all levels of the exercises, but you need to be able
to get a high score on the hardest level we offer and taking the easier levels is great
practice to help you get there.
How to track your own progress with our Knowledge Star system.
Now let's talk about the second way of keeping track of your progress: our self-evaluation
tool called the Knowledge Stars.
At OUINO, we strongly believe in giving you control over your learning.
We believe that no one and nothing can tell you how well you understand something better
than yourself.
That is why we included the "Knowledge Stars" to rate your understanding on each lesson.
After you complete a lesson, choose a Knowledge Star to rate yourself on how well you understand
and remember the material presented in the lesson.
You will rate your knowledge on a four-star system.
1 star – You took the lesson, but had a very hard time understanding and remembering
the words in the presentation.
You feel confused and know you'll need to revise this a few times in order to really
grasp this lesson.
2 stars – You understand and will remember some of the words presented here, but some
are still confusing and will need a lot of revision.
3 stars – You understand the presentation very well, but you will need to come back
to it at least once to feel fully confident in your own knowledge.
4 stars – You understand and remember all the words very well and will never need to
go back to it.
You feel fluent in this lesson.
These are general guidelines of what the Knowledge Stars represent.
Everyone has different goals and can use them like you want.
The purpose of the Knowledge Stars is to give you an incredible flexibility and control
over your progress.
If you want to be hard on yourself, we recommend not choosing 4 stars until you can complete
the hardest exercise on the first try.
But even then, you may get 100% on an exercise, but you know that the words are still a little
unstable and that you would not necessarily remember them the next time around.
You could also get a lower score, but feel that this particular lesson is not all that
important to you and give yourself 4 stars.
We are not here to judge on your self-evaluation.
The stars are also very useful for people who have already started learning the language
somewhere else.
For example, you may start the program and already know the numbers by heart and feel
very confident about them.
Go ahead and click 4 stars under the numbers lesson and it will show up in the menu.
The Knowledge Stars are there to guide you.
Unfortunately, clicking on 4 stars on every lesson will not get you fluent…
I'm sure none of you thought about cheating, but remember that the Knowledge Stars have
to mean something, otherwise they are useless.
Use them to your advantage to guide your progress, not just to have a nice colorful menu.
Though the menu is absolutely beautiful when it is filled with Red Ribbons and Yellow Stars.
Stunning red and yellow are the colors of language-learning success.
In the next video, we will talk about the OUINO Calendar, which helps you incorporate
the language in your life in many ways and allows you to keep track of your progress
through time.
Stay tuned! :)