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The users of the tools that we are evaluating are higher learning educational students and teachers who have a good knowledge of using a computer and they can quickly adapt any kind of application they are introduced.
The users student user,to whom we focus,use the website to
- Check assignment
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- At least logging in and check new announcements or updates via courses list in the portal.
Tools Ecology
-tool ecology includes all the relevant external applications used within tuubi.For an. eg. if a user group is teacher,They use calenders,upload asignments which are in various formats e.g pdf,doc etc. Use of some images etc.
Having a good list of users helps us understand functional scope
- Different types of user who uses Tuubi (Mainly 3 different kinds of user)
a) Teachers
b) Students
c) Guest Students
- Goals in which they will be in pursuit of
a) Educational purposes,Cours contents,Asignment review,uploads,Creating sharespaces,Forums,to get Etra education related links.
Tasks they need to performs
Login ,follow course contents,check navigation tools,upload asignments,get comments,create forums and disucss,log out for safty reason.
Prioritizing user types is important
Why is the software product being built/exists?
Tuubi is build for the educational purposes who are students/teacher of an organisation.
What business objectives do we hope to achieve?
Students gets easy access to the courses related topics,to get high profiled announcements etc.
Which of these user types is it most critical that we support to
achieve our objectives?
Students are most critical type of user which supports to achieve tuubi's objectives.
Profile users to identify relevant characteristics about them
1) Student focal user type in case of tuubi.
2) The do course related activities,which lets them to make an access to the enrolled courses and make related activies on it,e.g to view asignments,new announcements,upload annoucements etc.
3)Domain Expertise: This user group belongs to the student of Media Enginner/ IT Engineer.
4)Goals,; from tuubi ,students can easily login, view course contents,related info.
5)Pain Points; Navigation problem,When user is viewing one asignment from asignment label,at the same time he canot move to next asignment,this is main problem with tools that are applied in tuubi.
6)Usage Contexts; Mostly the use is acadamically targted to the students of Metropolia UAS.
7)Software Ecosystem;Mostly,different browser to run the page,other computer internal applications like MS offices etcs.
8) Collaborator;Teachers,fellow students.
9) Frequency of Use;Most of the user visit many times tuubi,to concern with study related issues,so it has good approach of students.
Interviews
The experience from the user group member is interviewed.We interviewd some member of our own group since we are the one of most critical user of Tuubi.
1)Where were they?
In Classroom Reef.
2)How long did it take?
it took about 10 minutes
3)What computer equipment or software was used?
We collected information about experiences from tuubi,by writing down in MS word.
4)What did they most enjoy about experience?
Easy to use,easy access to materials.
5)What was the most annoying about the experience?
Navigation of Asignment and course lists was bad thing,They are linked in such unscientific way that,when they try to check next asignment they should again go and click to the course and come back again.
(interview partcipants: Ademola Somoye,David Kyanari)
Ademola Somoye
Student,Media Engineer DAP07S
"It gives the direction to develope our knowledge in excellent way because we are the user of Tuubi ,which is good platform for learnings" |
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