Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #11412: Unit circle - Progress bar
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-17 07:28:07+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, hard, xp

Your progress bar is very seemingly arbitrary. It feels as though it doesn't know what to do, and it also feels like my homework progress is dictated by an entity that is incompetent. Two problems cause this. First, it seems like it gives too harsh of a penalty for a very minor issue. I lost half of my progress bar because I forgot a negative symbol, or I accidentally rounded the answer to two decimals instead of three, because the example answer only had two decimal places. The other is the very fact that when I click that "Check Answer" button, I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen. I don't know at all how much it'll decrease, I don't know how much it'll increase. It feels arbitrary, inferior, and pointless. Finding a way to demystify the algorithm, or to find another system that's more self explanatory would be preferable. The old one was good. Also, that gradient and glow is pretty ugly.

[unit_circle.html?seed=122&problem=degrees](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/unit_circle.html?seed=122&problem=degrees&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/unit_circle.html?seed=122&problem=degrees&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-.574%5C%22%22%2C34%5D%5D)

["-.574"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

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