The Problem
To manage the groups, tasks and performance of each student.
The Goal
Develop Sam Teacher Assistant (STA) platform for everyday group class management.
User Research
In the beginning, I came directly to English school teachers. 14 participants walked through the existing process, while we observed the flow and asked to comment on every step and click along the way.
14 teachers is not a lot for a study but enough to see constant. After, I finished with the survey.
Insights & Analysis of Responses
- All teachers use different excel sheets to keep records;
- Google calendar to track schedule and sub;
- 60% of teachers searched homework tasks in folders named by task practice “Vocabulary”, “Times”, “Modal Verbs”, “Translation”, “Listening”, “Speaking” etc.,
- There is no system for out of class and entertainment projects planner (as movie class, presentation in TED talk’s style, debate, etc.)
- Teachers report extra support needed students for arranging a separate class or schedule a one-on-one;
must have
Student lists, classes, attendance, performance, calendar
nice-to-have
Task tags, teacher contact info, move students between classes, plan entertainments and out of class work
improvements
Sub teacher notes, homework submit, extra support needed students,
Information Architecture / TREE TEST
To testify our suggestions we asked participants to play with cards and categorize them by tree method.
Here is what we got after summarizing the cards.
