[DG: Teaching & Learning] Progress on learning activities project

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hello
Thanks for letting me talk about our work today. I wanted to follow up. We are still working on the scenarios and requirements we talked about on http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Requirements+Definition. Some scenarios may be missing, or some may not have requirements. Also , we wrote them row by row and haven't read through a persona's column to see if the story flows, so apologies up front if it doesn't read smoothly. To get more background about the persona, read the User and Domain Analysis doc (we plan to create individual web pages for each persona, but are not done). 

Caveats aside, if you decide to read through the scenarios, there are a few things we'd be interested in feedback on
1) I've created a bucket called "What's missing?" on the following 4 pages if you look across the scenarios and notice something missing, please add it there. If it makes sense for an existing persona, we will see if it warrants it's own scenario. If it wouldn't be relevant to someone we already have, we may ask for more details about the type of person who would need what you are asking for.
(Note: Lynn asked if we foresaw pulling out the requirements to get a comprehensive list that could be reviewed to see if it had parity to what already existed. We pulled requirements by persona because we think we'll need the context to help inform the design framework, but don't see a problem also creating a full list, it's just a matter of time)
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Course+Planning+%28Scheduling+and+weighting+activities%29
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Activity+creation
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Deploying+and+administering
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Reviewing+submissions%2C+giving+grades%2C+scores%2C+feedback

2) While we tried to stay as agnostic about how these scenarios are accomplished, if you we've made certain assumptions and are too specific, please leave a comment on the page, or write me


Finally, someone asked about reusing persona sets, for instance, to explore portfolios. I'll send a separate note about that next.

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Specialist, Stanford University
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Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:21:08 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Progress on learning activities project

Hello
Over the last month, we've been writing scenarios for 7 of the persona we developed regarding how they plan their courses, how they create activities (specifically problem sets, tests, and polls), how they deploy those activities, and how they receive and give grades and/or feedback. From those scenarios, we are pulling out requirements. Our next step will be to describe the functional elements that can represent those requirements and how they might be organized and related.  Because our requirements were gathered in context, it will help us to understand which elements are common and which are specialized to certain persona or certain times.

Although we are still cleaning this up and filling it out, the scenarios can be viewed here:
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Requirements+Definition

I'll be talking about the persona, scenarios on the T&L call today to give the context of how they are being used, then talk about next steps.

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University