Social Network Streaming

Busy Becky begins at a parent homepage. Here they experience an interface very similar to the most popular social networking sites. Only the center frame changes (as well as appearing and disappearing dialogues). Busy Beck can immediately view a stream of events relating to both of her children and their respective schools. 


Becky decides to navigate to the Children button and the middle frame switches to a frame displaying her children with a stream of events relating specifically to events that affect each children. Becky can hover an event, bring up more details as well as click the arrow to the side to view more events (most current events displayed first).

Busy Becky then clicks on the picture of her daughter, Sarah. Here, she can view a more complete stream of events relating to Sarah and then filter them by type of event such as assignments, study sessions, deadlines, and exams. Once again, hovering over any event brings up more details about the event.

After viewing her daughter's events and seeing that Sarah failed her math midterm, Busy Becky decides to send a message to Sarah's math teacher, Teacher Tammy by selecting the Tammy icon which highlights after selection. Becky also has the option of sending a message to multiple teachers, but this time, she just chooses Tammy. Becky then enters a message and sends the message by typing in the textbox and clicking the "Send" button.

Busy Becky can now continue the conversation indefinitely by selecting the Message menu button on the left navigation bar which changes the center frame to a message screen. Here Busy Becky can view her ongoing messages and select a thread to bring up the entire conversation in the same frame. 


When Busy Becky, clicks on the message with Teacher Tammy, she can see all previous messages as well as add her own response using an extremely familiar interface.

Now, let's see the same situation through the eyes of Teacher Tammy. Teacher Tammy logs in and is sent to a page extremely similar to the parent homepage. The major difference between the two views is a "Create Event" button that enables Tammy to create new events that will appear on the news feeds of selected students.

Teacher Tammy noticed that a lot of students happened to fail her math midterm including Becky's daughter, Sarah. Teacher Tammy then decides to navigate to her Groups view which shows all the groups that Teacher Tammy is currently subscribed to.

This Group view also enables Tammy to create new groups that allow faster event creation and message reception. Teacher Tammy then decides to click on "New Group/Member" which brings up the next dialogue box.

In this dialogue box, Teacher Tammy decides to create a new math study group for her many students that failed the math midterm.

First she is presented with a choice between updating a group and making a new group. She clicks on Group which highlights the bounding box and clicks "Next". She now must give a valid, not already used, name to the group and has the option of adding an icon to the group either through an image link or uploading a photo. 

Finally, Tammy Teacher can select the members of the group through simple and similar user selection. She simply can to click on the student images which then highlight and allow Tammy to select multiple students. Tammy selects all of her students that failed her math midterm and then creates the new study group.

Immediately after closing the dialogue box, without any further navigation, Teacher Tammy creates an event (study session) for her newly created group. She can now create multiple events that will appear on the desired students' news feeds. To create the event, Teacher Tammy simply must select a type of event which dynamically loads the most probable groups/students, selects the students/groups, types in an event description with as much detail as she desires, and clicks "Submit". After this sequence of events, Teacher Tammy has now setup and informed all the proper students about a study session to help her students improve.