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This is the login screen for ConnectEd. Ms. Frizzle will type in her password and will log in. 
If she forgets her username or password, she can recover them through the 
forget the forget username and password link.

Upon login, Ms. Frizzle sees the main page of ConnectEd. At the top of the screen she can use the
notification center (news) where she can get updates on the latest activities. For example, such as a change in schedule.
 Afterward, she can pick the primary class she would like to communicate with. She could can change this selection at a later time.
She can also perform actions that are relevant to all of her classes. She can check messagemessages (from parents), create forms, and check her calendar.

When she picks a class (3A Hebrew) the layout of the screen will changed change, and she will have specific options for this class.
These options are: a list of all of her students, a grade book gradebook for the class, and assignment section, where she can upload homework
assignment assignments for her students.

When Ms. Frizzle hover hovers over the forms button, it will change into two sub-buttons.
The first will allow her to create a new form, and the second will allow her to review existing forms.

When Ms. Frizzle clicks the new form button, a pop up -in window will allow her to create a new form. If she presses escape cancel or click clicks the X
button she will go back to the main page. In the pop up -in window she picks a template for the form, fill fills in the activity name, pick the 
classes picks the classes that will attend this activity and set sets the date of the activity.

Ms. Frizzle can preview the template by clicking the preview button. This will also allow her to manually change the text in the template
if she would like to do that. After she is done with the form she can send it to her class.

When she clicks send, ConnectEd will email all of the parents in the class with a link that will take them to the login screen of ConnectEd
on their computercomputers.

When she receives the email, Arnold's mom will sign in to ConnectEd using her username and password.

Arnold's mom's main screen shows her the latest news for all her children in each category. She can she the current classes that Arnold takes, check his grades, check his assignments, check for incoming messages, address form forms she has to read and sign, and learn about upcoming events in the calendar.
In this example there is an ice skating permission slip that was sent by Ms. Frizzle.


When she clicks on that form, a pop up -in window shows her the form. She can either approve it by checking the "I give permission ..."  And  and approve button, or she can deny or asked to be remindedlater reminded later about this slip.


Back to Ms. Fizzle Frizzle's computer! Ms. Frizzle would like to know how many students are attending the activity, and how many parents did not yet sign the permission slip. She hover hovers over form the forms button again and click clicks on view existing.


This pop up -in a window (that can be closed by pressing escape or the X button). She can search for the form by typing the name of the activity in a search menu, that will give her options for appropriate slips, based on autocomplete. When she finds the permission slips that she want wants, she can either click on it, press enter or press view in order to view it.


The previous screen will be replaced with a the following table.
The table consist consists of her students and each student is mark marked with: check for approved, X for denied, and ? for pending. Ms. Frizzle can filter the table based on the students name, ' names or the status of their permission slipslips. She can resend the form as a reminder for a specific parent who did not approve or to all the parents who did not do so. Finally, she can review the permission slip she sent to the parents.

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  • Buttons have good information scent, each button has an image that tells the user what will follow.
  • Parent can view all sections (class list, grade bookgradebook, assignments, etc) in the notification center. No need to learn a complicated layout.
  • The teacher notification center teaches teacher about new features. Notification Notifications will introduce the teacher to new concepts.

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  • Parents notification center have a lot of information in it. Parents might get lost.
  •  Changing Changing buttons (form button changes when the mouse hover hovers over it) may be confusing and hard to remember.
  • It is unclear to parents if they can or cannot find and review old information.

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  • When the user clicks on a button, the button changes in place.  The change might not be visible enough and restricts the user's mouse area.
  • Parents' notification center has a lot of information in it. Reading through the information might be time consuming
  • Searching for old information requires scrolling through the entire notification center.

*Safety:

Pros:
  •  Parents Parent needs to check a box in Order order to confirm their approval.
  • Parents Parent has to login with a password, so their kid won't be able to approve his or her permission slip.

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