1. School Forum
By Pigs Might Fly
Vanessa Hoyle, Tanya Elahi, Robert Perry, Bailey
Hunter + Isaac Haworth
2. School Forum is for Students who are struggling
with homework. It can be used outside of school
at any time to make sure they get the information
they need from other students to help with their
work
3. The Problem,
You’ve got homework due tomorrow and
desperately need some help from your
classmates
4. How can you get instant help to do your
homework?
5. You could just text a friend, but you cant have your
whole class at your finger tips to help with your
queries.
School Forum gives us a quick, easy way of
getting help.
6. My team, Pigs Might Fly, is developing a mobile app
to help students get their homework done on time with
help from other students in their class whilst at home via
forum. They will also be able to find out due dates and
useful websites on this app.
7. Our users are all students in some form of
education, and tend to have difficulty at
some point or another with homework.
8. There are several other Forums on the app
store, they are generally quick and smooth,
They also had very basic layouts and
everything was user-friendly, but they
weren't very pretty and our aim is to have a
very good looking app which is quick and
easy to use
9. Our main feature is the ability to talk to other students
on the forum.
As a student I want to know how to do my
homework so that I don’t fail
As a friendly person I want to help others with their
homework
As a student I want to know when my homework is
due so that I don’t miss the deadline
As a student I want to know useful websites so that I
can improve my work
As a student I want to know how my peers are coping
with their homework so that I don’t feel bad if I cant do
it
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12. I think that this app is definitely feasible, it
requires internet access but most phones have
that already, it must also be able to store the
information other students send in.
13. Our target audience are students in high schools, sixth form
and maybe even university, we are confident that they would
have disposable income as they don’t really have to pay any
taxes or other important charges. We think that school could
also benefit form this app if we could have fundraisers to
help set it up and also give 10%of our income to school.
There are lots of apps currently on the market which I think
would like to reach our target audience so we will have some
advertisements but if the user wants to get rid of the
advertisements they would have to pay to remove them as
installing the app would be free. We are hoping that the
school would be able to sponsor us as well with things like
cake sales and raffle tickets to raise money for the app.
With the introduction of iPad in many schools in the UK there
is an ever increasing demand for online apps that support
education
14. One way we cold get our app across to our
target buyers, the schools of the world, and
get them to buy our app. Is to send a letter
advertising why the app would be an asset to
the school.
We also think that we can
send emails to schools
advertising our app and
telling the schools about
how it wold work.
We could
send texts or phone calls to
schools to inform them how our
app would be useful in their
school. This would help us to fund
the app if the schools bought it
Editor's Notes
What is the background situation you are addressing? Describe the context users are experiencing.Example: BuzzerBuddiez: Who? Students What? Students are studying for exams When? 7am Where? Student dorm Why? Late night cramming, student likely to oversleep
What specific problem do people encounter in that situation? Use the results from your user researchExamples: BuzzerBuddiez: your alarm does not work and you are thus late for: school, work, exams, doctor etc Transit: Many parents don’t speak English and their children have to translate the feedback that a teacher provides. When the feedback is negative students mistranslate. Oyster on the Go: You don’t remember how much money you have left on your pay-as-you-go Oyster card and run out of credit when you urgently need to get on a train Cattle Manager: You need to run backwards and forwards between the office and your cows, taking notes on paper and wasting time or loosing notes
What core question are you addressing with the app? Examples: BuzzerBuddiez: how can you avoid oversleeping? Transit: how can negative teacher feedback be translated accurately? Oyster on the Go: how can you be more aware of how much credit you still have on your Oyster card? Cattle Manager: how can you keep track of injections for your cows while you are out and about looking after them?
To introduce the judges to your team and the product, include your final min elevator pitch here.Example: - Buzzer Buddiez: Our team, [Buzzer Buddiez], is developing [a mobile app] to help [students] [who have studied late and are likely to oversleep because they hit snooze on their alarm clock] [to wake up on time with the help from friends and family]
Summarise what other solutions or alternatives you have found that already exist in the market and explain why they don’t fully solve the problem you are looking at or why your proposed solution is better.
Show here what your MVP will look like in terms of flow and if/ how you have already integrated any user feedback.
Show here what your MVP will look like in terms of the key wireframes of your app’score feature.
Summarise what you have learnt about data, content and technical feasibility. This is crucial, if your product relies heavily on any of these areas. If your product does not rely on them heavily, please explain why. This will show that your team has really understood feasibility well.
