I've been doing Rocket German for a while now and occassionally I notice changes. One change not too long ago was the change to the writing portion where you hear the German sentence verbally and then you write out the German in the rectangular field in the lower portion of the screen.
It used to be that your errors were shown in that lower rectangular writing field. You saw the errors in that writing field until you went to write out the next new sentence with the next sample.
Due to some update, now you only see the writing errors above in what had been reserved just as the phonetic indication of what your speech errors were. No longer are the changes shown in the written portion of the exercise. Not only that, you always get a score of 95, which is meaningless since you never pronounced anything.
I can see no advantages whatsoever to this change to the writing section and a lot of disadvantages. If I want to practice my pronunciation and memory of that sentence, especially if I found the writing of it difficult, then the next time when I practice the pronunciation, the record of what my errors had been completely disappear because the upper field will now only show how I did on that particular pronunciation. I can still figure it out because I can compare what I wrote below to what is correctly written above, but the convenience is all gone. If I practice the pronunciation for a while, I may even forget if I got it right or not. I may want to practice to prepare for the next speaking section by practicing the pronunciation or mentally firm up what the correct spelling was. So it's better to keep the errors showing in the writing field where you'd intuitively expect to find the writing errors.
The way the system was originally designed for the writing portion got it right from my viewpoint as a user. The writing errors were restricted to the writing portion and the pronunciation portion was not involved. Each section stayed true to its original function and eveything made sense. That is intuitively where I'd expect to see how I did with the writing, namely on my writing sample - not up in the pronunciation guide. Doesn't Rocket German want their course to be intuitive and to make sense to the user? This change makes absolutely no sense to me. I do not understand how this change improves anything.