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Advantages: The uncluttered nature of the interface should facilitate common actions like posting a story. In addition, we are aware that the daycare worker might not have time to report individually on each child. Therefore we made it easy to batch this kind of actions by allowing the user to select several children at the same time. This way if the worker wants for instance to update that every kid had pasta for lunch and ate a good amount, all they have to do is click on the select all button, modify the food section and then click update. The fact that the sliders have defaults also makes this type of task easier and faster.
Disadvantages: If there are more than a certain number of students it might not be the best idea to organize them by picture because the daycare worker might have to scroll a lot in order to find a certain child. In addition, as of now, if the worker realizes that he has made some mistake in selecting the kids there is no easy way of changing that without going back to the beginning of the task.
Safety
Advantages: While the daycare worker is filling in the information for a story post or for a daily report he can always see which kid is selected. This way we make it easier to avoid sending messages to incorrect recipients. In addition because the worker selects the students by pictures it is harder to make a mistake when selecting a kid. One reason is that the worker will not mistake two kids with similar names, the other reason is that if the worker is working with a tablet it will be less error prone to select a picture than just a name.
Disadvantages: If there are a lot of children, and the worker wants to select a subset of the children, he might end up scrolling a lot which might make it easy for him to forget one of the children he wanted to select.