How do I mark lessons which I've completed?

Hi All. I'm fairly new to GuitarTricks, and have seen just how many lessons there are, so many different levels and styles etc. I am aware of the bookmarks and history section, including their filters. But after watching heaps of lessons over the months, the history will get pretty bogged down.
I want to know if you can simply mark a lesson or section, so that you know you've completed it. Making it easier to search what you haven't learnt, or just remembering what you were up to.
Especially after 6 months time when you've completely forgotten!
Cheers,
MP.

Hello MrMikePatton,
I do not know if you clear the history, though I think no, but instead you can just bookmark what you want to do, at least the first lesson in a tutorial. Hope it will work for you.
Regards
Carmine

Hey Mr MIke..
Welcome to GuitatTricks..
If your comfortable with multi-tasting and COPY AND PASTE techniques, I would try this..

I use NOTEPAD as my collection point.. I find it easest to use for me..

Here is and example ..The lines in parenthesis are were copied and pasted into NOTE PAD and copy and pasted as a whole back into the reply box..
I put in a note that lesson was finished and gave myself a grade B meaning to me It needed more work.. Then I listed the instructor. and copy and pasted the link to get back to the lesson..

(finished - grade B - Getting Started: The Four-Step Pattern.)
( by Lisa McCormick )

(http://www.guitartricks.com/freelesson.php?input=bD46Z2I3N2Q4Pg==)

Then start a new folder to store them..

I sure there are probably more and easiers ways..
Good luck
Gordon

Thanks very much for your tips people!

I've started a text log, which isn't the best way, but seems the only way.

This will be the dumbest question of this week, but how do you bookmark a lesson or page?

I go up to the top of the site and there is the tab for "Bookmarks". When I click on it there is nothing there, obviously, because I haven't bookmarked anything. But I will be darned if I can figure out how to add a bookmark.

Originally Posted by: matonanjin how do you bookmark a lesson or page?

Go to the lesson that you want to bookmark. On the right hand side of the video player there is a red button with white text that says "Bookmark" and has a little plus sign. Click that. Now that lesson will appear in your bookmarks.

MrMikePatton,
We were actually just talking about ideas for something like this. We had brought it up to subscribers last year and nobody seemed interested at that moment. So we're glad you're interested.

I was thinking it would be better to handle this sort of thing at the tutorial level rather than the individual lesson level. Otherwise it would get pretty crowded.

Would you want a system where you "check out" (like a library book idea, where you register your intention to complete something before you begin) a tutorial and then mark it completed at the end, or would you just want to be able to mark it completed at the end?

Do you agree it makes more sense at the tutorial level, or do you think it would be better to mark individual lesson pages as completed?

Anybody else who is interested, please feel free to chime in.

Thanks for your interest. Glad to hear there's intent to upgrade this part of the site!
I've not thoroughly explored the site for how tutorials/lessons are grouped. It seems there's a structure when you head into the tutorials, which I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it.
So far I've been following the Core Learning System tutorials/lessons. And only out of interest have I dabbled in a random search for a certain technique.

So I see what you're saying, where you question the tutorial vs lesson level.

I meant at a lesson, or per video, level, because the Core Learning System has so many parts (where as the tutorials outside of the Core Learning System seem to only have small sections of lessons).

What if, for example, I searched for Sweep Picking? Then did the two or three lessons, then left it? If these are part of a larger Metal Techniques tutorial, then I'd forget that I've completed them.

I guess... ultimately, it would be great it you could 'tick' every individual video/lesson. Then upon completing all of the lessons in that group/tutorial, a "tutorial completed" tick is shown at the heading. Because you may not finish a whole tutorial in one session, or even a week, so it'd be good to know where you left off. Then, upon completing, or ticking, all the lessons in that group, a "tutorial" tick is shown.

Now, I have no idea how hard it would be to code this for the individual user.
But what I am currently doing is copy/pasting the text from the list of lessons into a text document on my computer. Then hi-lighting the lesson I'm up to in green text. Then I update the green text after every session.
I also download the lessons I feel are useful and want to refer back to one day (possibly a different "tick" for this, meaning "flagged" for future reference? This mark could merely represent lessons that are "bookmarked").

But what happens after I move on from the Core Learning System, and I'm doing a lesson here and tutorial there. I may be struggling with fingerpicking and want to leave the lessons and practise for a few weeks, but move on with Rockabilly 101. My list will get rather messy and full in no time.

Of course, this is all being very focused to detail. But I'm trying to explain what would be fully user friendly and thorough. All this marking of lessons would also give you a sense of "completion", like you're actually getting somewhere with you skills. You know what I'm saying?!

Thanks for your ear Jon.

Originally Posted by: Jon BroderickMrMikePatton,
We were actually just talking about ideas for something like this. We had brought it up to subscribers last year and nobody seemed interested at that moment. So we're glad you're interested.

I was thinking it would be better to handle this sort of thing at the tutorial level rather than the individual lesson level. Otherwise it would get pretty crowded.

Would you want a system where you "check out" (like a library book idea, where you register your intention to complete something before you begin) a tutorial and then mark it completed at the end, or would you just want to be able to mark it completed at the end?

Do you agree it makes more sense at the tutorial level, or do you think it would be better to mark individual lesson pages as completed?

Anybody else who is interested, please feel free to chime in.

Hello,

A function that allows us to mark a tutorial as completed would be very nice.

+2 Agreed

While I admit I haven't looked very hard, I still haven't found a way to go directly to a lesson unless it's book marked. When I'm trying to find a lesson I'm forced to continually press "Next" until I get to it. In other words, once inside the lesson sections with the 'x pages' I have to page Next or Previous to find something. It'd be helpful if the individual pages were listed.

+3
I'd like to mark lessons and maybe even give myself a grade
AND mark the tutorial series

+4, I'd love to be able to check off lessons I have completed and be able to track my progress through the core learning series as well as the other lesson series.