Prototype Photos
Prototype 1
Messages view
Prototype 2
Messages view
Calendar view
Grades view
Briefing
Users were shown the following video prior to completing their tasks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoNIife2OM
Scenario Tasks
1. Contact Sarah's mom to schedule a meeting time to talk. You are free Mondays and Fridays from 3pm to 6pm
2. Share Sara's grade for the last math test with her mom.
3. Remind your entire class' families they have a math test again this Friday and that they should review multiplication.
Observations
Phase 1:
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Phase 2:
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Prototype Iteration
Iteration between prototypes
These are the changes we made after the analyzing the feedback we got on the first prototype:
- We got rid of the “All” tab, which selects all displays the entire stream, because it did not enhance the user experience.
- We decided that the calendar would only be modifiable by the teachers, who would use it post exams, events, etc. Parents would only be able to view it.
- To make it more clear to the user what student's profile he is currently on, we decided we would introduce a small bio of the student at the top of the page, which would include the student's name, his parent's name, and his average grade.
- In order to make it more clear to the teacher that the left menu contains the student's names, we added icons with the student's pictures beside each name.
- Calendar will only be modifiable by teachers, who will just use it to post exams, events, etc. Parents will only be able to view it.
- We no longer divided the main container into an "editing box" and a "view box", as it became confusing especially in the calendar view, where users are used to seeing a pop-up when they edit an entry.
- We changed the button named "All", which made reference to all the class, to "Class".
Planned Iteration
These are the the changes we are going to make next:
- Separate the class and make it bigger
- SOMETHING ABOUT GRADES