Design
Implementation
Evaluation
We conducted user testing with the following users:
- Sophia Teacher: A teacher for middle school students with special needs in a low-income community in Philadelphia (sister of group member)
- Tricia Teacher: An elementary school teacher at a school in Barcelona (aunt of group member)
- Emily Teacher: An educational coordinator at the Stata Childcare Center (visited in-person)
Prior to user testing we introduced our users to our problem statement, told them they would be testing our website as teachers - which is their profession - and provided users with a website briefing (below). We then presented them user tasks (below) to complete, one at a time. We encouraged them to talk out loud and explain what they were doing & provide feedback during testing, which we took notes of. This helped us identify usability problems with our interface and suggest potential solutions in an evaluation (below).
Website Briefing:
Selecting Students
Users can dynamically select groups of students, by toggling the icon box on the far left for a particular student
Sending Messages
Users can select the text input, type a message, and click send (or hit enter) to send a message to all the currently selected students.
Creating Events
The user can create an event by clicking on a day, with the student attendees selected in the left menu.
Sending A Grade Report
Users can send grade reports to the parents of the students selected by clicking on "New Grade Report". They can also edit the grade book in line by clicking on the score they want to change.
User Tasks:
You are the fourth grade elementary teacher, Tammy. As a teacher, you have many things to do before the weekend. Please, complete the following tasks:
1. Greg, Elisa, and Barbara have a group project on ancient empires. You found the following webpage link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires and you thought it might be useful to share this link with (the parents of) Greg, Elisa, and Barbara. Your task it to share this website with their group.
2. Sarah and several other students recently failed your math midterm. As a usually high performing student, Sarah's mom, Brenda is concerned and messaged your about Sarah's performance. You want to schedule a study session for the students who have C's in the class and respond to Brenda's message.
Your task is to:
A. Schedule a study session on May 17th at 4 pm for Greg, Sarah, and Mary
B. Respond to Sarah's mom, Brenda, letting her know about the study session.
3. You've finished preparing grades for all but a couple of students. You still want to send out grades but also want to let the parents who receive no reports that their children's grades will come soon.
Your task is to:
A. Send out grades to all students except Steve and Mary.
B. Send a message to Steve and Mary telling them that they will receive their final grades soon.
Evaluation:
Evaluation