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The Prototype (Photos)
Users Based on our tasks, users spent most of their time in the Calendar View (creating classes and assignments) and in the Mobile App (marking an assignment as completed).
The following picture shows a user working on Task #4 (adding a personal assignment). The calendar in the center is a dialog that pops-up when the user clicks the empty space on a given calendar date. The smaller (in red and green text) post-it notes are the assignments themselves, which were created on earlier tasks.
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Our application is a collaborative to-do manager, specifically tailored for efficiently keeping track painless management of school assignments. TAs, instructors, and classmates can add assignments to a shared class feed. Assignments from trusted sources are added automatically to the tasks list; assignments added by classmates can be optionally added to the student's schedule. Personal (private) classes and assignments are also supported.
The key motivation to motivations for using our application are:
- Every semester, many students hate have to independently (and redundantly) organize and catalog all of their assignments;
- Everyone must work throughout the semester to keep it up to date;
- Our application allows for collaborative to-do lists - only one person has to input the assignments;
- By sharing the workload among all classmates, our app makes it much quicker and easier to organize your classes. Besides, it
- It is much harder to forget an assignment when all classmates share a common agenda.
Scenario Tasks
Our scenario covers the basic usage of the application, including creating classes and assignments using the web interface and completing an assignment using the mobile interface. The tasks presented to our users were:
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