[Contrib: Evaluation System] How do you all feel about the organization of the administration page?

Daphne Ogle daphne at media.berkeley.edu
Thu Feb 9 13:47:54 PST 2012


Hi all,

We are starting to look at requirements for our next iteration of work  
on eval sys.  We plan to start looking at some of the authoring  
interfaces.  However, a potentially low hanging fruit that keeps  
popping up for me is the administration page.  Perhaps it is because I  
am a newcomer but the content is pretty overwhelming and I believe we  
could better group options by themes and perhaps do some rewording to  
both make the options clearer and show relationships with other  
options (if there are any).  Every time I have to find a new  
configuration setting someone brings to my attention it is painful.   
The reason I say low hanging fruit is because it seems like a simple  
technology fix.  The challenge will be in creating an information  
architecture that makes sense to everyone.

I think card sorting would be a productive way to create a new info.  
architecture and perhaps there's a way to involve some of us from  
across schools in that activity.

But since it is an interface we don't use often, first, I want to  
understand where something like this fits on the communities wish  
list.  The work would benefit us some but would really be more about  
making things easier for future users.

-Daphne

Daphne Ogle-Glenn
Senior Interaction Designer
University of California, Berkeley
Educational Technology Services
daphne at media.berkeley.edu
cell (510) 846-8237







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