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Analysis
* Learnability:
Pros:
- seeing Seeing pictures of the students makes it clear how to access a student
- notifications allow users learn about the site,
- each individual student's page.
- Notifications (in the top right of the screen) help users to learn about different features of the website.
- The sidebar is a standard layout that users are accustomed to. standard layout users are used to it
Cons:
- the The "create form" page is confusing. It is not clear whether one has to add text in order to upload a PDF
- if I write text and pick a template what will happen?
- , and what the templates are for. (It is not evident that the user can use any one of these three methods to create a form.)
- It is not clear to the user what will happen if he/she chooses a template after writing a permission slip.
* *Efficiency:
Pros:
- student pictures saves time
- notifications save time
- can upload PDFs
- uses templates
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Cons:
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- Having students' pictures is efficient because it gives the teacher a larger target on which to click.
- Notifications save time.
- Similarly, new items can be accessed easily in two different ways: through the notification buttons and from the sidebar.
- The teacher can upload a PDF of the permission slip if she already has one saved on her computer.
- The teacher is provided with templates that she can use to create her permission slip. This means that she only needs to edit a few fields (such as the activity and the date) to create a permission slip quickly.
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Cons:
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- Nested
- nested menus require steering of mouse.
- the The attendance table is just plain text, can't send a reminder
- might loss what we wrote if we move to template
- ; the teacher cannot send a reminder to parents who have not yet signed the permission slip.
- If the teacher selects a template after typing in the text box, she might lose what she wrote.
- Too many clicks are required: the teacher clicks on the class, then clicks Forms, then clicks Create New Form.too many clicks: teacher clicks on class -> clicks Forms -> clicks Create New Form
* Safety:
Pros:
- parents need password, so the kid won't be able to go in and approve
- The teacher is able to save a draft of the form in case we need to go backshe needs to stop in the middle and return to it later.
Cons:
- can't Parents cannot change their mind after they approved or denied the permission slip.
Please note: After the comments we received regarding our GR2 presentation, we decided that it may be a good idea to try to add capability for parents to write a note/comment to the teacher when they sign the permission slip (or deny their child permission). We would accomplish this by simply adding an optional text field for comments in the parents' interface and including a link to see parent comments in the teacher's view.