[Building Sakai] [Management] [DG: Teaching & Learning] Tell us about your users: Rethinking the capabilities of learning activities tools, such as Tests & Quizzes, for 3.0

[John Norman]

Looks like signup is on the child page "Talking to users" at the  
bottom of the page.
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Talking+to+users

John
On 12 Sep 2009, at 01:06, Daphne Ogle wrote:

> Hi Keli,
>
> This looks like great stuff!  How or where do we sign up for the kick
> off meeting in September?
>
> -Daphne
>
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:24 PM, kamann at stanford.edu wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> Early in 2010, Stanford plans to begin rebuilding the core
>> functionality provided by Tests & Quizzes 2.x releases (aka Samigo)
>> in the new 3.0 environment. However, we do not want to simply
>> rebuild it based on the current design. Sakai 3.0 allows us the
>> opportunity to make the functionality formerly associated with tools
>> accessible in other contexts; in other words, the functionality of
>> T&Q and similar tools can now be modularized so that users can
>> create or complete activities without necessarily entering a
>> specific tool. Working in 3.0 will also allow us to utilize Web 2.0
>> interaction styles that simply weren't around when T&Q was initially
>> designed.
>>
>> We plan to sponsor a 3-month investigation phase beginning in mid-
>> September to help us understand the range of people who use Sakai to
>> create, manage, complete, and assess learning activities and how
>> they think about their work. We want to have a solid understanding
>> of the historical issues, user types, and user goals before we begin
>> designing in January. We believe that understanding how various
>> users really think about their work will lead to new ideas for how
>> workflows need to be structured and interrelate to each other. In
>> other words, it should help us to understand the commonality between
>> workflows that currently occur in multiple tools in multiple ways.
>> Also, although we are not immediately integrating with the workflows
>> of communication, scheduling, and grade reporting, we would like to
>> know how and when users expect their work surrounding learning
>> activities to integrate with those workflows.
>>
>> This investigation will conclude with an analysis of our findings,
>> including key user types and their functional needs; this phase will
>> lead directly into recommendations for design. Therefore, we hope
>> that a broad range of institutions will contribute to this
>> investigation, especially by providing end-user profiles based on
>> local interviews of instructors and students regarding the work they
>> do with tests, quizzes, and other graded assignments.
>>
>> If you are interested, please read more about participating in the
>> investigation and sign up for a kick off meeting in mid September
>> 2009 at
>>
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Investigation+Phase
>>
>> Although it's likely that instructors and students at Stanford are
>> similar in fundemental ways to many users at other schools, it's
>> also likely that other schools have different classroom structures
>> (difference in class size, involvement of assistants or
>> instructional designers, distance learning, and pedagogy) that will
>> have implications for how their users need to work; we want to take
>> these into account as well.
>>
>> If you have any questions, please let us know.
>>
>> Keli Amann and Jackie Mai
>> User Experience Specialists
>> Stanford University, Academic Computing
>>
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> Daphne Ogle
> Senior Interaction Designer
> University of California, Berkeley
> Educational Technology Services
> daphne at media.berkeley.edu
> cell (925)348-4372
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