How to get the most out of Biblingo's lessons

Complete ALL activities: Biblingo's curriculum consists of several different activities, including the sub-lessons, words that need practice decks, fluency drills, and reading comprehension drills. It's important that you complete all of these activities as you progress through the lessons. The fluency drills and reading comprehension drills correspond to particular sub-lessons. These are marked by stars (fluency drills) and ribbons (reading comprehension drills) on the lesson overview page. You can also navigate directly to fluency drills and reading comprehension drills in the sub-menu of the Language Learning module, where they are organized by lesson/sub-lesson. Words That Need Practice decks are generated automatically every day and can be found in the sub-menu of the Flashcard module. Completed fluency similarly get added to your Paradigms That Need Practice, which can be found as a tab on the Fluency Drills page.
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Get sufficient review: A good general rule of thumb is to spend at least 1/3 of your time reviewing material vs. completing new material. You can divide your time up each day or across the week. For example, if you study 30 minutes per day, devote the first 10 minutes to review. Or if you study 6 days per week, devote 2 whole days to review. Review can include the built-in review, such as Words That Need Practice or Paradigms That Need Practice, or simply redoing activities such as sub-lessons, fluency drills, and reading comprehension drills. I especially recommend rereading the reading comprehension drills as much as possible. For a more detailed explanation of how to approach review, see: How to balance learning new material with review
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Focus on phonics: Especially if you're new to Greek/Hebrew, focus as much as you can on phonics for a while. Phonics basically refers to the association between symbols (letters and combinations of letters) and sounds. In other words, you want to be able to look at a text and automatically subvocalize it (i.e. pronounce it in your head). This takes practice! The best tools for this will be listening while reading and reading aloud. In other words, use the audio available in the program as much as possible, and repeat or read everything out loud as much as possible. The principle behind this is that in order to become fluent in higher level skills (such as reading with comprehension), we must first become automatic in lower level skills (such as phonics/subvocalization). As these lower level skills become more automatic, you can focus on them less (e.g. do more silent reading).
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Don't skip typing/speaking: Typing and speaking are not just bonus activities for those who are super good at Greek and Hebrew. These are powerful activities that will boost your learning, strengthen your retention, and increase your fluency. There is compelling research that practicing productive skills like typing and speaking actually improves receptive skills such as reading and listening. So if you want to become a better reader of Greek/Hebrew, make sure you're typing/speaking! Typing/speaking practice is an option in the Active stage of vocabulary and grammar activities. My preferred method is to speak the answer first (without actually using the speaking tab), and then type it to submit my answer. This way I'm practicing both but saving a bit of time. There is definitely a learning curve to typing, but it's worth it. One option is to commit to typing at least some of your answers for each lesson until you get faster at typing.
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Develop a daily routine: There are all sorts of ways you can arrange all the material and activities for a daily routine. You can find an example here: How to develop a regular Biblingo routine