Prof-desk

Student Project. General Assembly UXDI Winter 2013Design by: Zoe Fisher & Erik Evangelista

About the product: Prof-desk is a free online education service that allows teachers to create online courses on a variety of subjects, empowering students from around the world to learn new skills and improve on their knowledge. Prof-desk does this by simplifying course creation and uploading, offering analytics and enabling agile feedback. Unlike other course management systems, Prof-desk promotes student-teacher feedback and simple teacher-side functionality. !"About the project: "Prof-desk was a student project; the aim was to improve the experience for teachers to enable them to manage and maintain online courses. We were given the constraint of designing for the Prof-desk website.

Process: "".

Concepts Rough FinalResearch

• Surveys• Personas• Competitive Analysis

• Rough Sketches• User Journey

• Prototype• Testing

• Final Prototype

Teacher Survey Findings

"• Making teaching material available • Managing/monitoring student progress • Due/dates and scheduling

“Making the interface intuitive while increasing student engagement.”

Student Survey Findings

"• Important due dates & course information • Organization of course • Availability of teaching materials

“Having online access to material is key… it saves time.”

Tina Celestino, 27

“I want to extend my teaching presence outside of the classroom. With my limited time, I’d like to create courses quickly and easily.”

Grade 9 Math Teacher, Fremont High School

Attentive Tina promotes a transparent and engaging environment to ensure her students’ awareness and well-being. She ensures her students know what to expect and how to pace themselves. "“I feel that seamless communication with my students helps all of us succeed.”

Busy As a dedicated teacher, Tina has little time for overhead. She acknowledges technology as a useful tool to facilitate her teaching, but is challenged by it’s steep learning curve. "“All my students are online, and I should be there too, but the system needs to be easy to use and navigate.”

Opportunities "• Create a simple interface

that allows Tina to easily manage her class schedule.

• Bring down barriers between Tina and her students through the interface.

Competitive Analysis

Coursera Khan Academy

Murally Dropbox

• large, clear browse bar • related courses

• concise section of high level content

• minimalist navigation bar • social media login

• simple content upload

Design Principles

• Concise and organized layout of content • Engaging homepage content • Minimalist design ""

Redesign of Homepage

Goals "• Modernize & simplify • Showcase what Prof-desk has

to offer • Create an engaging experience

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Redesign Teacher Dashboard: Focus on ‘My Courses’

Goals "• Improve course upload • Simplify course management • Minimize content on

dashboard

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Teacher Dashboard out of scope features

Menu "Dashboard Profile • Friends • Favorites • Chat Account Settings Students • Grades • Roster

Ideation & Sketches

User Flows

SitemapInitial Class Concept

From our analysis of the site architecture we discovered many opportunities related to the teacher experience. We decided to focus on the teacher dashboard and course content due to the importance of content found in our research.

Homepage Ideation & Sketches

Teacher Dashboard Ideation & Sketches

Course Upload Ideation & Sketches

Homepage Before & After

Teacher Dashboard Before & After

Scenarios

Tina visits Prof-desk and signs up She creates a course and uploads content

Creates course and uploads most of her

content"(Out of scope of

prototype)

Tina’s first visit to Prof-desk

Tina’s second visit as a user

Tina logs into her dashboard and clicks to view her Algebra 1

course details

She inspects her course schedule and decides to add a quiz

THANK YOU Zoe Fisher zoe.fisher3@gmail.com "Erik Evangelista ejevange@live.com