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Teacher

This is the login screen we showed for the user to sign in as a teacher.


When the user logs in to a teacher account, this is the home page he/she sees initially.  It displays any news/announcements, has buttons for each class that the user teaches, and has four buttons which allow the teacher to perform actions for any class (not any class in particular):  

  1. The messages button allows the teacher to send a message to a parent of any of her students.
  2. The create new form button allows the teacher to send a form (typically something that the parents need to sign or respond to, such as a permission slip) to all the parents of students in one class or multiple classes.
  3. the view forms button allows the teacher to see a list of all the forms he/she has sent to parents in the past.  Then, he/she can click on a specific form to see which parents have signed the form.
  4. The calendar button allows the teacher to see her schedule for all her classes.


This is the teacher's class homepage. If the user clicked on one of the class buttons on the main teacher's home page, he/she will be brought to this screen, which contains options for what the teacher can do for this specific class.


When the teacher clicks on the "create new form" button either from the main homepage or from a specific class' homepage, this screen is shown.  This picture shows the dropdown menu for the form type field.


Still on the page for creating new forms, this picture shows the screen after the user has chosen the form type, typed in the activity/event, checked the classes the form should be sent to, and clicked on the date field or "select date" button.


Once the user has entered all the information, he/she can click the "preview" button to see the text that will be sent to parents, as shown here. The preview is in a text box, so that the teacher can add more text to the form and/or edit the text that is already there.


This is the teacher's "view forms" page, which can be accessed by clicking on the "view forms" button either on the main teacher's homepage or on the homepage of a specific class.  Navigating to the "view forms" page from the main homepage should show all of the user's forms for all classes, while clicking on it from a class' homepage should display only the forms for that class.


Once the user clicks on the ice skating form, he/she can see a list of all the students in the class, with an indication of the status of their forms (approved, denied, or pending).  From this page, the teacher can also resend the form to parents who have not yet responded.


If the user clicked on the arrow next to "form status" on the previous page, the entries in the table are sorted by form status.

 

Parent


The sign-in screen was shown again for the user to log in as a parent.


This is the parent's main homepage, from which he/she can see news/announcements, complete tasks relevant to any or all of his/her children, or select a specific child.


If the user clicked on Arnold's photo in the previous screen, he/she is brought to this page, which is the homepage for Arnold.


Clicking on the calendar button from the parent's main homepage would display this calendar, with all the children's activities shown with a different color for each child.  
Clicking on the calendar button from a specific child's homepage (such as Arnold's homepage shown in the previous picture) would show this same calendar, but only with Arnold's activities.


Clicking on the messages button from either the main homepage or a child's homepage allows the parent to write a message to his/her child's teacher(s).

Observations

For each iteration, we interviewed four users.

First Iteration:

  1. There was some confusion in differentiating between the “Forms” button and the “Messages” button. Many users were not sure under what category a Permission Slip would fall. One user suggested that we split the button. Another suggested that we split them up into “Send to all Parents” and “Send to One Parent”
  2. Hovering feature on the forms button presents a Safety issue. The user can click before hovering feature is fully displayed and will not realize what was clicked.
  3. Need some indication after a form is created or sent that action was successful.
  4. Some users did not find the “Resend to all Pending" button on the "create forms" page.
  5. A lot of confusion between the “?” and “X” indications in “View Forms”.
  6. Calendar issues:
    1. Days not clickable.
    2. Starting on Monday.
  7. Some suggested autocomplete and some suggested dropdown for “To” field in “Messages”.
  8. People liked the clean and intuitive feel of the site. The large icons and low depth were also appreciated.
  9. Some users were confused between the choosing of a class before or after navigating to “Messages” or “Forms”.
  10. Better not to use abbreviations, such as the children’s initials on Homepage.
  11. Was suggested that we use different colors for each child’s activities on the schedule page.
  12. Must make pictures clickable and this feature must be learnable.
  13. One user tried to hover over buttons that had no hover feature.  (It was confusing to have the "forms" button change upon hovering, but the other buttons not change.)
  14. On the create forms page, Preview button’s feature was not clear to user.

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