• Continued development of presentation slides.
• Conducted practice presentation session.
• Recording of audio for Learning Collective video tour.

• Continue work on exegesis and brief proposal.
• Final look at developed Flash prototype: “Learning Collective”
• Development of script for video tour of Learning Collective.
• Development of presentation slides.

Here is a screenshot of our presentation plan.

• Discussion:
  • Presentation of interface outcome.
    • Talk through new features, the drastic changes made.
    • Justification of design decisions and tool implementation (grounded in research methodology findings).
  • Studio-pia
    • Have a clear definition of its purpose and be able to explain it.
    • Think about how it will be used, what each participant has access to and can view.
    • Have interface design and visuals communicate its purpose, show capabilities.
• Keep on trucking with it all!

This allows you to talk and direct on screen, similar to Camtasia. Useful when considering the development of Stutopia.

• Began planning presentation (order of slides and content to include).
• Continue working on:
  • Final interface design.
  • Exegesis and proposal brief.
  • Presentation.

This is the first roughs of layouts. Simple.

Here are some images form the interface evaluation:

6 participants.
5 pages.

Home Page:
Need Video as intro to new site, and it’s functionalities. Tutorials.
Unit Page – bars same tint as their designated colour.
Explain function of red circle.
Calendar  - easier to use and understand function. (change colours, clear).
New Updates moved to bottom of page.
Navy Blue instead of Brown.
Do we need chat? Can discussion board be enough?
Smaller profile picture, so as  not to take up quarter of page.
Make “hello Janna” Bigger on page.
Move Logout to top.

Unit Page: Announcements
Move Week 10 to the top, next to date.
What’s new – introduce notifications.
Larger Font for Announcements, Unit Headline etc
Clarify Timetable and Calendar, how they appear – pop up?
Consistant Bread Crumbs.
Icons for Tools?
Consistant Announcements – ie Photo Layout, Bigger Boler Name info, etc.

Discussion Board:
Highlight appropriate Headings (side Bar). ie – Discussion Board if in DB.
Highlight Announcements if in Announcements
Somethings t indicate your presence.
Shortcut to other subjects from the one you are in now, instead of going back to start.
Announcements need to differ in appearance?

Blog: (process Journal)
Need to explain what Blog means and what it is for. ie as part of profile?
Add Archives, by week.
Expand on contacts, drop down?
Rename to Process Journal.
Justify how is it part of BlackBoard, Hence layout must adapt.
Free customising? CSS. How much is too much?

Profile Page:
Rename to Folio.
(2 Images: when you’re logged in and not.) like in actual blog, as that people outside of your login can view your work , working folio.
Larger Name
Corresponding Highlight on Top.
Profiles/Home at top same colour as bar./ Need to clarify
THumbnails at Top.
Bigger Navigation in profile (arrows to scroll through works).
Increase Profile link etc.

Statistics:
Do you Prefer this Interface to current BlackBoard Interface? 6/6
Are you more likely to Participate in online discussion given this environment? 6/6
Are the Timetable and Calendar useful? 4/6
Is the Profile Useful? 5/6
Is the Blog clear, do you know what to do with it? 2/6
Is the Navigation Clear? 3/6
Do you like the layout? 4/6
Do you think the Notifications are useful? 4/6
Do you like the Homepage Design? 4/6
Do you deem the Weather as useful? 6/6

The above Statistics are based on the questions which were asked during the evaluation process.  All these comments were useful in determining how users understand the newly layed out Black Board.

Using this information, we put together the final outcome.

• Conducted user-testing session of interface design.
• Analysis of user-testing results.
• Continue working on:
• Alteration of interface design, based on user-testing findings.
• Exegesis and proposal brief.