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Claire Community Manager

Tutorial How to change your profile settings

You have several options you can use to customize how you use the community. These are available to set up on your settings page. To find your settings page Click your image in the top right of the community Select "Settings" Click the "Settings" tab What each setting affects Display your badges...

Judith Participant

What value do course certificates have?

How do people use these certificates? Is it just something they like to collect? Do employers actually value them? I think of the certificates as a personal gratification or acknowledgment of a course you took. Would an employer be impressed?

Mohamed Reyad

How to participate as a translation volunteer ?

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How to participate as a translation volunteer ?

KALVALA KUMAR

Eager to learn new fundamental things

Respected Ma'am/Sir, I'm Kumar currently working one of the NGO which is serving on career and guidance to remote level, rural students. I'm kindly requesting you regarding basic fundamental technical things to learn, actually I'm from BCom Computer and Master of social work background, please any...

abhi18qv

How to change my username?

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Yellow everyone, I was wondering how could I change my username on this platform since b mistake, I've made a typo erroramd is like to correct that. I looked for this in settings but couldn't find anything.

Judith Participant

“Helpful Hints on the New Community" introduction topic

Mohammad, I agree that having us test this out has helped us to see what some of the most common questions will be. I don’t really like the idea of pinned threads. They can quickly become out of hand. What is really most important can be disputed. Many can sit there for endless weeks and prevent peo...

Hossein Newcomer

Assignment

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https://www.coursera.org/learn/tricky-english-grammar/peer/6iBUF/tricky-english-assignment/review/qn3FuOQXEeimQA5xrm-u8g

rana alhosary Viewer

my 15000 word certificate

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i have translated more than 15000 words into arabic and i did not received any certificates yet can you help me solve this problem

Rahul Kumar Newcomer

refund for subscription

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I am really frustrated about subscription amount charged even i have cancelled the subscription kindly guide me for refund. now its refund not applicable if no then i can use the same against other courses. This is really bad experience.

Mohammad Sameer Hasan Member

How to Delete Comments or Threads on this Platform?

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@Claire, I recently made a post on this platform and wanted to edit it as I misspelled few words as i type quickly but I couldn’t do so through my desktop, is their any restriction to editing? I guess the posts in other sub forums cannot be edited. Although the posts in Help section can be edited as...

Yurgenis Rincon

How can I be a translator?

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I wanna be a translator, I speak Spanish and English so I wonder if I can translate several courses to make coursera more global

Ahmed Refat

Volunteering to translate English videos to Arabic

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I want to know how can I volunteer to translate English videos to Arabic

Liz Participant

Unable to edit hyperlink

@Claire I am unable to edit or delete my above reply where I copy pasted some text into the URL link by mistake.

Mohammad Sameer Hasan Member

Adding a "Verified" Symbol next to the Profile?

Today, while i was adding the link to my profile in one of the social networking sites under my contact info, it came to my mind of having our profiles verified. I am referring to the idea of having 'Verified' Symbol near our profiles. Although, i am quite familiar with authors using different pen-n...

Terry Participant

Courses with 7-Day Full Access Free Trials

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I have seen "Try for Free: Enroll to start your 7-day full access free trial" and "Financial aid available" buttons. I have never clicked on the former button. Has anyone tried it? I have always used the latter button (Financial aid) and fortunately, I have been granted the request although it takes...

Lochcarron

Free courses for beta testers?

@Terry There are free courses, but no free certificates. I have heard that some beta testers get their certificates for the courses they get access to for testing, but instead complete the course. While the course is not live yet, there is no grading of quizzes or assignments, so everyone passes an...

Judith Participant

What are the badges?

@Claire , what are the various badges you can earn here and how do you get them? If you keep this system, it would be nice to know. For example, I suddenly got a beta tester and leadership one. I have no idea how? How long do they last? What are they?? Thanks.

Mohammad Sameer Hasan Member

Is "Sticky" the new name for "Pinned" posts?

@Judith I guess "Sticky" is something being implemented from Community Team at the moment to record Sticky Notes in place of pinning threads like the one @Claire did for members' introdution in one of the topics recently started.

Tobie Participant

Why am I referred to as a "newcomer"?

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Why am I referred to as a "newcomer"? I see participants for others and the newcomer against my name. and when do I become a "Participant'? Do you see it?@Denise ,@Terry ,@Claire ,everyone?

Terry Participant

What does 'number of replies' under name mean?

@Denise, yes, I can see it. It now says "4 replies". lol! I was confused at first on what that meant. Now, I think I know it. It is the number of times you've replied to a comment. Please correct me if I am wrong.

robinzclark

How to switch specialization?

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I originally signed up for the "Python for Everyone" from the University of Michigan. When I enrolled I stupidly thought that my monthly enrollment gave me access to all of the courses in the catalog. It took me a week to realize that I only had access to the Python for Everyone specialization. I...

Namrata Tejwani Participant

Email notification doesn't show comment

@Claire , as I see, a. email notification doesn't show comment, instead it shows hyperlinked text "view comment" and b. on clicking it, we land on thread post instead of on comment. Is this a bug or a feature? As I see, when thread will have many replies, it will be frustrating to locate comme...

Maryam

How to Insert an Image via a Spoiler

Hi everyone, If you would like to insert an image, but you would not want it to take up a lot of your post's space, you can put it in a spoiler. Interested visitors would go ahead, click it, and view the picture. I think it could reduce the loading time of the webpage as well. So, I recommend that...

Namrata Tejwani Participant

Beta testing - Beta testers are required to re- register?

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Though I am already beta testing courses since 2015. Was I supposed to re-register and repeat the process? Since that thread is closed, I had to ask here.

Andrei Cornel Newcomer

Payment

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Hello, I made a payment for the course I'm having and it didi sent a confirmation mail on my old mail adress, that I don't use anymore, and I don't know the password for it. I changed the email and clicked the the receipt as prove of my payment Will everything be ok with the payment and the certific...

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