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- Olivia, the Organized Student
- Levi, the Lazy Student
- Tina, the TA
OlyviaOlivia, the organized student
Olivia is super organized. After the first day of classes, she goes and enters every pset, test and project milestone into her Google calendar. This not only helps her remember assignments in the future, but gives her a nice overview of everything she had to do during the semester and when she will have crunch weeks. The data entry takes her ~30 minutes, and she often gets frustrated at Google calendar for mis-interpreting MIT class numbers as times. She used calendars collaboratively for one project class a few years ago, but her group just used the calendars for events and left the task organization to email and in-person conversations.
She would use a collaborative scheduling tool, but wouldn't want anyone else to edit her information (she's fine with subscription).
Lessons learned from Olivia:
- There are students who would go in on the first day of class and add everything they need
- However, they might repeat effort: Olivia would want to do it herself
- Google calendar isn't used for dynamic, group scheduling.
- Google calendar is annoying to enter non-repeating events on (ie bulk adders are really nice)
- Efficient entry is necessary to attract this class of users
Levi, the lazy student
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