clickED Lab Usability Study26 January 2016

Prototype Changes

Connected Devices - Initial Hack

Enabled backend with Parse

Conflict of languages (Swift/Obj-C) prevented functional Lookback integration

Participants

Christina Foust - 8th Grade teacher at Summit K2 in El Cerrito

Diverse classroom of around 25 students

Tasks

1. Students ask questions

2. Teacher reads the room

3. Teacher reviews unresolved questions after class

Apparatus

Students and teacher downloaded app through Testflight

Test took place in classroom during Community Group period

Procedure

Q & A with the class

Students used app in groups of five

Teacher acted as a moderator using the app to pick the questions

Teacher reviewed the questions asked after class

Test Measures

Viability in a classroom setting

Time to complete task

Distraction level for both students and teachers

Results - Student

Students understood usage of class code to enroll in class

Under 15 seconds from opening the app to asking their questions

UI to resolve questions was not intuitive

Results - Teacher

Confused about how to start receiving questions

Questions loaded slowly

Expected to be able to mark questions as answered

Feedback - Student

~75% class wanted to see other student’s questions

~90% of class wanted to attach pictures to questions

~90% of class said they wanted the app for their class

Feedback - Teacher

Color of question could be based on urgency

Ability to organize list of questions

Discussion - UI

Remove “Questions I’ve Asked”

Allow students to see other students’ questions

Discussion - UI

Discussion - UI

Better way for teacher to organize questions

Alert teacher that questions are incoming

Remove or move “Refresh” button

Discussion - Study Improvements

Have observers sit with students

Have students ask questions based on curriculum

Individual student log-ins

Summary

Tested app in 8th grade classroom

Students and teacher suggested good ideas we had not considered

Confired classroom viability