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Prototype 1

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Messages page

  • The user can see his history of messages with the parent of the selected student (in the left menu). 
  • He can type a new message and check "SMS" and/or "Email", to also send it as a text message or an email.

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Calendar page

  • The user can see a view of the month and use the arrows at the top right to change months.
  • By clicking on a day, the botom box gets populated with the selected day.
  • The user can post a new event, add details about the event, and select when he desires to get a reminder of the event.

Prototype 2   

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Messages Page 
This page has the same functionalities as the Messages Page of the first prototype.

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Calendar Page 

  • The user can select to see a week or a month view.
  • There is a button at the botom right used to post a new event.
  • When the "New Event" button is pressed a pop-up comes up that the user can fill in with the details of the event.
  • The date/hours fields get populated with the dates/hours that were selected in the calendar view before pressing "New Event".

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Grades Page

  • The user can import grades and share them with the student's parents.
  • In the summary page he can see the overall performance of the student and compare its his results to those of all the class.

Briefing

Users were shown the following video prior to completing their tasks:

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Users need feedback on their actions throughout the experience: BLAH Many users went through additional steps to verify that the messages and grade reports were in fact shared after sending them to parents, which cut down on their efficiency. For example, one user went back to the content stream a total of three times to verify that each of his correspondences showed up. Additionally, many verbally indicated that they were unsure of whether or not their intended action had been accomplished. One user explicitly said in his commentary that he wanted more feedback, which we observed to be an opportunity to solve other issues we observed (i.e.: sending information to the wrong parent/entire class). Providing feedback throughout the process in addition to confirmations is an area that our next design will incorporate to hopefully alleviate some of these issues.

Grade sharing should provide information for both the parents & teachers: BLAH: Although we originally thought that grade sharing would provide a one-way communication mechanism for teachers to give parents information about their students' performance, we received some feedback that our interface for grade sharing was ambiguous. More specifically, a user commented that although for a student, we provided a neat table displaying each assignment name and their score on it as a percentage, they had no idea what those percentages meant because they were not in relation to anything. For example, if a student scores an 80%, it would be valuable to know if the class average was 90% vs. 70%. Additionally, it would be valuable to know the trends of a student's grades over time and be able to share this kind of data with parents. Therefore, we were enlightened by these observations to expand the way we approached grade sharing: We want to provide useful, personalized information to both parents and teachers and not just support the flow of data from teacher to parent without context.

Prototype Iteration

Changes between prototypes

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