Myngle Score going live!!
Hello dear Myngle community!
Today Myngle has rolled out our new cool feature - your Myngle score! Both teachers and students now get a number next to their name, which shows their activity and reliability in Myngle. Your Myngle score is calculated as:
1) the number of successful paid lessons given (for teachers) or taken (for students)
2) + the number of free lessons given (for teachers) or taken (for students)
3) - the number of cancelled lessons (reasons for such cancellations penalties are specified in your teacher/student profile)
The feature went live today, so we gave you a credit score for the free/paid lessons you have acquired in Myngle already but we did not penalise you for cancellations. They will start influencing your Myngle score starting from today.
Depending on your Myngle score, your feedback stars will have a different colour:
- yellow for Myngle score below 50
- green for Myngle score higher than 50 but below 200
- blue for Myngle score higher than 200 but below 500
- purple for Myngle score higher than 500
Congratulations to teacher Nataly.n http://www.myngle.com/user/profile/index/id/3011 who has the highest Myngle score today: 154 with green stars! And also to other 12 teachers who already earned green stars!
This week we also released the new “Feedback” feature: both a student and a teacher can now give feedback any time after the lesson is over (even a few days later). Just to go MyMyngle, click on “Past lessons” and then press “Feedback” button.
Next week we are going live with our new cool classroom which will change your world 
The highlights will include:
- possibility of group lessons
- interactive whiteboard with writing/drawing
- desktop sharing
- integrated chat, video, audio
Keep an eye on our new developments and do let us know what you think!
All the best myngling!
Tetyana
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September 5th, 2008 at 7:03 am
WOW Tetyana
( im sure the teachers understand what i mean )
:D
i feel overwhelmed just reading this, its so impressive, and you did surprise us
the idea is brilliant,and will solve a lot of problems for us teacher
cant wait to see the new classroom , your making us more an more excited
September 5th, 2008 at 7:16 am
how cool is that?!?!
now I can’t sleep until next week!
respect to the myngle team. that’s worth the little trouble of the past days
September 5th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Myngle is the greatest!!! It was definitely worth the wait, it’s overwhelming, thank goodness we have the weekend to get over all this, I’m on a high now! Words can’t explain the excitement, but thank you for all you’ve done, are doing and going to do. Aniya
September 5th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Hello Ladies!
Haha, thank you for sharing all this excitement! We are happy that you love this powerful new feature. It tells a lot about human psychology, doesn’t it?
I am sure it will help you improving your visibility to students and will bring recognition and new business too!
So keep up myngling and have a great weekend.
Now I jump into PayPal, you know for what
Cheers,
Tetyana
September 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Great!!!
Thank you so much Myngle Team for all your effort ……
September 5th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Given all the great feedback above I thought I would take the other approach (my speciality) and point out some problems.
First this score doesn’t go to the question of reliability at all since all the numbers are lumped together. Someone on the outside has no idea if a score of 20 represents 20 completed lessons or 30 lessons with ten cancellations. Until you can track reliability independently I would suggest that you don’t imply this number tells us anything about a student or teacher’s reliability.
Second, from a business point a higher number is better, but a higher number should not, in and of itself imply anything about the quality of a teacher. If a teacher is teaching Vietnamese there are obviously a lot fewer learners available. The Myngle score is a measure of popularity and the base popularity of a given language will have a strong impact on this number.
Finally, while this creates an incentive for teachers to teach more classes (I want to move up a color band) it could have the negative consequence of dissuading other teachers to “join the game”. If the top teachers get a great deal of attention from this number (the store window effect) and it draws attention from new teachers this may have the unintended effect of discouraging new teachers. If you are going to scale to even greater heights you need to find a way so even the newest teacher can be recognized for his or her accomplishments without getting buried at the bottom of the pile.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:49 am
That is amazing. It is first time to feel that ” thank you” is not enough
September 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Hi Mike,
Thank you for the comments, we like constructive criticism
Regarding your first point, actually ANY user can see the breakdown of the Myngle score into 3 components: paid lessons + free lesson - cancellations. But if you would like to see further details (say, dates of cancellations), then you can see this info only for your own profile.
You are absolutely right, Myngle score measures the “popularity” of a teacher, or as we say, his/her activity level (number of lessons) and reliability (cancellations). On the other hand, the feedback stars which we already had before measure teacher’s quality: you might have a teacher with Myngle score 100 (active) but with 4 stars (good level). So a teacher of a niche language can still stand out with 5 stars (excellent quality) although with a lower Myngle score (fewer lessons given).
We definitely have cool plans ahead as to how we’ll promote newly joining teachers. In fact, we are already doing quite a lot of babysitting and marketing support for newcomers, so the idea is that they get on track early enough with students. If you’d like to learn more and benefit yourself as a teacher, please feel free to contact me at tetyana@myngle.com.
Thank you and all the best myngling,
Tetyana
September 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Hi Mike,
as Tetyana said, criticisms help us getting better, so we always welcome it.
But I would like to add one point to your comment of lower feedbacks for ‘rare’ languages.
You are right that a niche language as for example Vietnamese has less interested students then the more common languages as English, Spanish etc. But you also have to take into consideration that for the more popular languages there are also more teachers offering lessons, so on average there should not be a very significant difference in number of students per teacher.
There might be still some difference now, as we are still relatively small and growing fast, but we think it is very important to keep a balanced marketplace, with a ‘healthy’ratio of students/teacher in average.
This is what I have learned from my eBay experience:
Too much of one of the two is not good: too many students for a language means that teachers cannot properly teach all of them, too many teachers means they do not get sufficient students.
We aim to have in Myngle a healthy balance for each language.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Hmmm,
Thanks for feedback. Just thinking out loud here. Maybe reliability should be a ratio so that even someone with just a few classes could be compared in relative terms with someone with many classes. Call this a reliability index.
Thanks for the great responses.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Can you explain what “myngle expert” and “myngle certified” mean? How do teachers earn these accolades?