2 Suggestions to improve Bible Study Builder

  1.  Because we can't control the order of the books from which the questions come, please DO NOT expand the first entry. It usually is one I have little interest in and expanded, it makes the ones I am interested in not visible to me.
  2. Because we don't have templates available, please create a section for personal questions which I can store and select from. My questions would be of this sort:
  • What is the relationship of this reading to the other readings in the lectionary for the day?
  • Where does this passage fall in the timeline of the economy of salvation?
  • What senses does this passage have in the quadriga scheme... what is the literal meaning? What am I to believe? What am I to do? What am I to hope for?
  • Do you see any interesting patterns in the text e.g. parallelism, chiasm, type-antitype . . .
  • Are there any unfamiliar words, persons, or places in the text?
  • Does this passage figure in Western arts?

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

Comments

  • Jonathan Bradley
    Jonathan Bradley Member Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭

    MJ. Smith said:

    1.  Because we can't control the order of the books from which the questions come, please DO NOT expand the first entry. It usually is one I have little interest in and expanded, it makes the ones I am interested in not visible to me.
    2. Because we don't have templates available, please create a section for personal questions which I can store and select from. My questions would be of this sort:
    • What is the relationship of this reading to the other readings in the lectionary for the day?
    • Where does this passage fall in the timeline of the economy of salvation?
    • What senses does this passage have in the quadriga scheme... what is the literal meaning? What am I to believe? What am I to do? What am I to hope for?
    • Do you see any interesting patterns in the text e.g. parallelism, chiasm, type-antitype . . .
    • Are there any unfamiliar words, persons, or places in the text?
    • Does this passage figure in Western arts?

    I agree with this. When I started a new Bible Study through the Builder, I almost forgot that there was a button for AI-generated questions because of the expanded first resource. Honestly, I think I must have thought that the questions I saw were AI-generated before I realized it was an expanded resource.

    Going along with MJ's second point, I really think that templates of some sort would be great. Something along the lines, to help guide the questions, of "personal application" questions, "The 5 W's Questions", etc. I hope that makes sense.

    Pastor, Mt. Leonard Baptist Church, SBC

  • Tim Hensler
    Tim Hensler Member Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭

    I really think that templates of some sort would be great.

    • Jonathan - It makes a lot of sense.
    • Faithlife - Please provide functionality for user-crated templates we can use for different occasions/purposes.
  • Stephan Thelen
    Stephan Thelen Member Posts: 643 ✭✭✭

    Some more suggestions for that tool:
    1) I would find it much more intuitive if you could (also) transfer a question to the list by double-clicking on the question. Especially as the two icons are small when accessed via a tablet.
    2. i don't need the notes section in the question list. Why can't it be made optional?
    3. why is it not possible to translate the (English) questions? Ideally immediately when displaying them, but at least when adding them to the list, or at worst with the normal translation page window?
    4. running through the question list does not work reliably. (see screenshot: gray and symbols on different questions)
    5. in the second screenshot you can see that the questions from the third resource obviously refer to the previous Bible passage.

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  • Ali Pope
    Ali Pope Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,821

    4. running through the question list does not work reliably. (see screenshot: gray and symbols on different questions)

    Thank you for the screenshot, Stephan. However, I'm unable to reproduce. Was this in the AI-Generated questions section? Or, did you see it in all sections of the question sidebar? Was there anything specific you did to reproduce this consistently?

    Ali Pope | Logos Desktop and Mobile Program Manager

  • Stephan Thelen
    Stephan Thelen Member Posts: 643 ✭✭✭

    I am not at home and answer you later. 
    one more thing: why is it not possible to generate Bible verses as a link? I use my iPad at the moment.

  • Ali Pope
    Ali Pope Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,821

    why is it not possible to generate Bible verses as a link? I use my iPad at the moment.

    This is possible. It's similar to Sermon Builder in that you can type in the verse reference and once you are finished typing in the verse reference it will turn into a blue hyperlink. 

    Ali Pope | Logos Desktop and Mobile Program Manager

  • ds. P.J. Kotze
    ds. P.J. Kotze Member Posts: 108 ✭✭

    MJ. Smith said:

    1. Because we don't have templates available, please create a section for personal questions which I can store and select from.

    I really think that templates of some sort would be great. 

    I agree on getting templates.

    • A Temporary Solution is to create a Sermon Document. Headings 1 to 5 relate directly when copied into a Bible Study while all others are normal text.
    • A normal Bible Study Document can be duplicated from the Documents Browser to use it as a Template.

  • Stephan Thelen
    Stephan Thelen Member Posts: 643 ✭✭✭

    IMG 1234
    Here you can see that the Bible text aren’t linked with logos.

    Another bug: if you change from the web app to another app and come back to web app the Bible study tool starts again with an empty document 

  • Ali Pope
    Ali Pope Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,821

    Here you can see that the Bible text aren’t linked with logos.

    Thank you. We have a case to improve this. 

    Another bug: if you change from the web app to another app and come back to web app the Bible study tool starts again with an empty document 

    I can reproduce and will get a case made to fix it. Thank you for the details!

    Ali Pope | Logos Desktop and Mobile Program Manager

  • Stephan Thelen
    Stephan Thelen Member Posts: 643 ✭✭✭

    Ali Pope said:

    4. running through the question list does not work reliably. (see screenshot: gray and symbols on different questions)

    Thank you for the screenshot, Stephan. However, I'm unable to reproduce. Was this in the AI-Generated questions section? Or, did you see it in all sections of the question sidebar? Was there anything specific you did to reproduce this consistently?

    Sorry, I didn't write that I work at my iPad in the web-version of logos. It wasn't the AI-Generated section.