Your feedback, built — 11 August
Everything from Velma’s note of 10 August and her screen recording, plus the certificate name she confirmed this morning. Each item below shows what she asked for and what has changed.
1. Course intro
“Please remove the numbers from the narration and captions, they don’t align with the 7 badges.”
The numbering is gone. The narrator now says “Here’s what you will learn” and reads the seven topics as a plain list. Captions match.
The crosswalk shot has been reshot so the far side is a curb, sidewalk, grass and houses — the child crosses to somewhere.
Your badge challenge sequence is in, using your wording almost verbatim: seven gray badges filling in one at a time, left to right, as each is named, then the certificate, then Street Smarts alone as the call to action.
The certificate is named the Home Alone Safety for Kids certificate throughout, as you confirmed this morning.
Course intro, 1:33. The badge challenge starts at about 0:44. Full page
2. The badges
Taken from the sheet you sent, at print resolution, backgrounds knocked out so they sit on any color. Each one also has a gray “not yet earned” state for the reveal and, later, for the learner’s progress screen.
Original artwork by Sue Perry, November 2018 — we have not redrawn anything.
3. The walk home
“The crosswalk still leads to an open road rather than across the street. The audio is glitchy, two instructions talking over each other. The boy walks into the crosswalk, then walks backwards, then into the crosswalk again.”
The far side is now a real sidewalk with a curb, grass and houses behind it.
The walking backwards was ours. The generator kept dropping the third look, so we made it by playing a segment in reverse — which reversed his body with it. Each head turn is now generated forwards and his feet never leave the spot until he crosses. He walks in one direction, once.
The audio was re-timed and then measured, not estimated. Every line has a clear gap either side of it; no two overlap.
Your new line is in: “you should be fully alert and aware of what’s around you. No distractions.”
The walk home, done properly. 33 seconds — slower than before, so each instruction has room. Lesson page
4. The near miss
“The car should honk and pass in front of the boy, not in front of the camera.”
Reshot square-on to the road. The street now runs straight across the frame and the car travels along it from left to right in the lane nearest him, passing in front of him, in profile, with the boy visible the whole time. Nothing drives at the camera.
A car horn was added before the pass. The tire screech and the cut to black are unchanged.
The clip stops the moment he flinches back — there is no impact, and nothing to watch after the point is made.
8 seconds. This is the “what nearly happened” clip inside lesson 1.1.
5. Arriving home
“I could not drag and drop the steps on my iPhone. Change “from the path” to “from outside”, use a girl’s voice, and add: make it a habit to always put your key back in the same spot.”
Dragging now works on a phone. Apple’s browser does not support the drag-and-drop method the page was using — that is a platform limitation rather than a setting. It has been rebuilt on touch events, with a drag handle on every row and automatic scrolling when you drag toward the edge of the screen. Tested on iPhone, iPad and desktop. The arrows still work.
The read-alouds are now in a girl’s voice to match Maya on screen. Josh stays as the course narrator — the rule from here is that the voice matches the character.
“From the path” is now “from outside”.
The key habit is in, as a teaching point with a new shot of Maya putting her key straight back into the front pocket of her backpack. That shot also closes the reward film.
The reward film, now ending on the key going back in the same spot. Try the activity — please try it on your phone.
6. American English
“Please change all written instructions and captions to reflect American English and not Canadian English (e.g. neighbor).”
Swept every page on the site — 160 checked, 49 changed. That covers all 43 lesson pages, the quizzes, the sales page, the checkout and the planning pages.
Changed: neighbor, color, favorite, behavior, realize, recognize, memorize, organize, practice, license, defense, program, catalog, traveling, labeled, canceled, meter, center, gray, toward, afterward, learned, curb, tires, Mom. 100 words in all.
It is now a standing rule, so nothing new comes back in British spelling.
7. Still open
The badge order. The intro names them in the order they appear on your sheet: Street Smarts, People Safety, At Home Safety, Online Safety, Fire Safety, First Aid, Accident Prevention. Is that the order children work through them, or just the order on the page?
“Plan the next steps with your family.” Your closing line points at something we do not have yet — a written agreement between child and parent at the end. Is that the family contract you have used before, and do you have the original?
Badge challenges. You say a badge is earned by completing the lessons and the badge challenge. We have a quiz at the end of each module. Is the quiz the badge challenge, or is the challenge something the child does away from the screen?
Everything above is live on the site and can be looked at on a phone. Anything that does not read right, tell us and it gets fixed before the next round rather than after it.