Junior Jimmy is looking to apply to colleges and is interested in electrical engineering programs. The Wayne State College of Engineering website allows users to browse academic programs and find information on electrical engineering. It provides details on admissions requirements, the application process, and financial aid options to help students like Jimmy learn about and apply to the program. The site also features tools for current and prospective students to connect with faculty, view course schedules, and learn about research opportunities.
Best Works Processes For Using E Portfolios And A Wiki To Showcase, Exchange,...WCET
ePortfolios and Wikis both allow collection of best works and information, continuous updating, and easy peer feedback.
Northwestern State University adopted guidelines for ePortfolios by adult students to showcase their work. The ePortfolios, are evaluated by faculty to award credit.
Kansas State University developed the ELearning and Teaching Exchange (ELATE) Wiki to provide a platform for faculty and other interested individuals to share teaching and learning best practices and to build upon each others contributions.
This panel will demonstrate the uses of these applications and how they can enhance information sharing.
Come hear how one school has used a schoolwide data management system to track
and grow student success and create a rigorous learning environment. Participants will
be able to see how key elements of personalization—limited size, teacher teamwork,
ConnectEDU tools, rigor and career, and college and civic preparation—come together to
provide the structure needed for success in this New York-based AOF program.
Work Ready Skills and Planning Your Career is a new subject taught online to 110 second year undergraduate students across four faculties and five campuses. The subject content was published in the LMS, with additional technologies being employed to further engage students, such as building a webfolio in PebblePad and the use of Blackboard Collaborate to hold fortnightly webinars. Students were encouraged to approach the subject as a self-paced one, with assessment tasks and webinars scheduled in such a way as to provide structure to enable completion of the learning activities on time. In this presentation, we will describe the design of the subject and reflect on the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities and technologies used. We will also discuss the preliminary results of a pilot study measuring the Career Decision Self-Efficacy (CDSE) of students at the start and end of semester. Career Decision Self-Efficacy has been used in previous studies as a measure of the effectiveness of career development interventions.
Issues around using attendance data to improve student progressionMelanie King
Presentation given at the CETIS 2012 conference March. This presentation describes some of the interventions undertaken as part of the JISC funded Pedestal for Progression Project (http://progression.lboro.ac.uk) - Mar'11 - Aug'12.
Best Works Processes For Using E Portfolios And A Wiki To Showcase, Exchange,...WCET
ePortfolios and Wikis both allow collection of best works and information, continuous updating, and easy peer feedback.
Northwestern State University adopted guidelines for ePortfolios by adult students to showcase their work. The ePortfolios, are evaluated by faculty to award credit.
Kansas State University developed the ELearning and Teaching Exchange (ELATE) Wiki to provide a platform for faculty and other interested individuals to share teaching and learning best practices and to build upon each others contributions.
This panel will demonstrate the uses of these applications and how they can enhance information sharing.
Come hear how one school has used a schoolwide data management system to track
and grow student success and create a rigorous learning environment. Participants will
be able to see how key elements of personalization—limited size, teacher teamwork,
ConnectEDU tools, rigor and career, and college and civic preparation—come together to
provide the structure needed for success in this New York-based AOF program.
Work Ready Skills and Planning Your Career is a new subject taught online to 110 second year undergraduate students across four faculties and five campuses. The subject content was published in the LMS, with additional technologies being employed to further engage students, such as building a webfolio in PebblePad and the use of Blackboard Collaborate to hold fortnightly webinars. Students were encouraged to approach the subject as a self-paced one, with assessment tasks and webinars scheduled in such a way as to provide structure to enable completion of the learning activities on time. In this presentation, we will describe the design of the subject and reflect on the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities and technologies used. We will also discuss the preliminary results of a pilot study measuring the Career Decision Self-Efficacy (CDSE) of students at the start and end of semester. Career Decision Self-Efficacy has been used in previous studies as a measure of the effectiveness of career development interventions.
Issues around using attendance data to improve student progressionMelanie King
Presentation given at the CETIS 2012 conference March. This presentation describes some of the interventions undertaken as part of the JISC funded Pedestal for Progression Project (http://progression.lboro.ac.uk) - Mar'11 - Aug'12.
Analyzing Real-time User Visitor SearchesNick DeNardis
Higher education websites always have a steady supply of visitors. It's great to see the numbers in Google Analyics fluctuate each day and trend upwards over time, but are your visitors finding what they came for? This talk is a high-level-to-in-depth look at tracking what visitors are searching for in real time from your site. We'll go beyond the consolidated "popular keywords" list to an actual trend list with grouped phases and pages. The goal is peer into the visitor's mind and figure out why they are searching for "address" on the Contact Us page or "Professor Smith" on the Faculty Information page. Higher education websites always struggle to accommodate two audiences, internal and external. Search results based on location don't lie, it's easy to combine real internal searches with reasons why quicklinks and extra menus may or may not be functioning as optimally as they should. It's time to go beyond pageviews and user paths and look at real-time search analytics.
Using Ethological Observations To Study Riots 2002Otto Adang
Systematic ethological observations can make an important contribution to the study of collective violence in humans. Presentation given at ISHE conference, Montreal, 2002
What is quality code? From cruft to craftNick DeNardis
No one sets out to create crufty code, but too often the pressure to "push it out the door and we'll fix it later" gets the best of us all. Before you know it, it's three projects later, the sun is still shining and you're still getting a paycheck. So where is the incentive to go back and clean under the rug?
Poor core quality isn't just a developer problem, either. It bleeds into team moral, deters decision agility, and ultimately prevents team members from getting into flow.
Quality code isn't something that requires a complete rewrite either (which is likely impossible), but can be accomplished with style guides, code reviews and a devotion to team investment time.
The pressure to ship will always be there, but starting (or maintaining) projects with an agreed upon foundation alleviates developers and designers from making potentially hundreds of decisions each day. This leaves room for the decisions that actually matter.
Learn how to transform your team, regardless of your position, into a lean, mean standards machine. Develop a multi-tier style guide, workflow and practices that focus on knowledge and consensus building. Eliminate the mundane decisions and allow the team to focus on its craft.
Designing for next steps - A forward moving Web experienceNick DeNardis
Getting a visitor to your website is only half the battle: how do you keep them? A lot of attention is put on the "action" items on a homepage but it's more likely a visitor is landing on an interior page from a Web search or link. Every visual element, content or cue makes an impression with your visitor and influences what next step they take. The last thing you want to do is leave your visitor at a dead end or continuously force them to use the “back” button. With each page having a defined “next step” it gives your visitor a forward moving Web experience. The idea is more than just bigger and brighter action buttons. Your goal is the design an experience to make your visitors care. This session will walk through real life examples to identify common pitfalls and successful approaches, provide techniques to objectively look at your communications from your audience’s point of view and highlight tools to measure and track success of your communications.
This presentation looks at issues that help make online courses successful. This includes learning characteristics, multiple channels for learning, and quality standards.
The Student is the Customer: Santa Clara University School of Law Needs Asses...MKThink Strategy
By identifying the student as the primary customer early on the process and thoroughly analyzing their experiences, MKThink found that meeting students' needs benefited everyone in the long run and streamlined the planning and design process.
Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and LearningREA Brasil
Research Examining the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and Learning: Early Findings
Presentation at CCCOER Meeting , June 22, 2010
Clare Mortensen, Institute for the Study of
Knowledge Management in Education
Licença: CC-BY-SA
Fonte: http://www.slideshare.net/oercommons/iskme-slides-ccotc-062110-sent
Sloan C Interdisciplinary Approach Presentation 2009jennife1
American Public University System (APUS) has developed internal processes to ensure the academic quality and integrity of online courses and programs. This session will focus on the process for conducting a system wide interdepartmental program review of academic programs. Quantitative and qualitative metrics will be discussed.
A Summer in Wonderland: An Engineer’s Adventure Through the World of Student ...Brown Fellows Program
Summer was broken down into two parts. The first half consisted of participating in the University of Louisville's Student Orientation Staff (SOS’er). As an SOS’er it was my responsibility to introduce the incoming Freshmen to the University, specifically I worked with the Speed School of Engineering students and helped to build many of the students' first semester schedules. The second part of the summer started my internship with Joe Dablow in the Enrollment Management office. In this internship I have applied the principles of Industrial Engineering to Enrollment Management to forecast retention rates of student cohorts and analyze the makeup of each class (original freshman, transfer, etc.). This internship will continue through the Fall semester.
Analyzing Real-time User Visitor SearchesNick DeNardis
Higher education websites always have a steady supply of visitors. It's great to see the numbers in Google Analyics fluctuate each day and trend upwards over time, but are your visitors finding what they came for? This talk is a high-level-to-in-depth look at tracking what visitors are searching for in real time from your site. We'll go beyond the consolidated "popular keywords" list to an actual trend list with grouped phases and pages. The goal is peer into the visitor's mind and figure out why they are searching for "address" on the Contact Us page or "Professor Smith" on the Faculty Information page. Higher education websites always struggle to accommodate two audiences, internal and external. Search results based on location don't lie, it's easy to combine real internal searches with reasons why quicklinks and extra menus may or may not be functioning as optimally as they should. It's time to go beyond pageviews and user paths and look at real-time search analytics.
Using Ethological Observations To Study Riots 2002Otto Adang
Systematic ethological observations can make an important contribution to the study of collective violence in humans. Presentation given at ISHE conference, Montreal, 2002
What is quality code? From cruft to craftNick DeNardis
No one sets out to create crufty code, but too often the pressure to "push it out the door and we'll fix it later" gets the best of us all. Before you know it, it's three projects later, the sun is still shining and you're still getting a paycheck. So where is the incentive to go back and clean under the rug?
Poor core quality isn't just a developer problem, either. It bleeds into team moral, deters decision agility, and ultimately prevents team members from getting into flow.
Quality code isn't something that requires a complete rewrite either (which is likely impossible), but can be accomplished with style guides, code reviews and a devotion to team investment time.
The pressure to ship will always be there, but starting (or maintaining) projects with an agreed upon foundation alleviates developers and designers from making potentially hundreds of decisions each day. This leaves room for the decisions that actually matter.
Learn how to transform your team, regardless of your position, into a lean, mean standards machine. Develop a multi-tier style guide, workflow and practices that focus on knowledge and consensus building. Eliminate the mundane decisions and allow the team to focus on its craft.
Designing for next steps - A forward moving Web experienceNick DeNardis
Getting a visitor to your website is only half the battle: how do you keep them? A lot of attention is put on the "action" items on a homepage but it's more likely a visitor is landing on an interior page from a Web search or link. Every visual element, content or cue makes an impression with your visitor and influences what next step they take. The last thing you want to do is leave your visitor at a dead end or continuously force them to use the “back” button. With each page having a defined “next step” it gives your visitor a forward moving Web experience. The idea is more than just bigger and brighter action buttons. Your goal is the design an experience to make your visitors care. This session will walk through real life examples to identify common pitfalls and successful approaches, provide techniques to objectively look at your communications from your audience’s point of view and highlight tools to measure and track success of your communications.
This presentation looks at issues that help make online courses successful. This includes learning characteristics, multiple channels for learning, and quality standards.
The Student is the Customer: Santa Clara University School of Law Needs Asses...MKThink Strategy
By identifying the student as the primary customer early on the process and thoroughly analyzing their experiences, MKThink found that meeting students' needs benefited everyone in the long run and streamlined the planning and design process.
Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and LearningREA Brasil
Research Examining the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and Learning: Early Findings
Presentation at CCCOER Meeting , June 22, 2010
Clare Mortensen, Institute for the Study of
Knowledge Management in Education
Licença: CC-BY-SA
Fonte: http://www.slideshare.net/oercommons/iskme-slides-ccotc-062110-sent
Sloan C Interdisciplinary Approach Presentation 2009jennife1
American Public University System (APUS) has developed internal processes to ensure the academic quality and integrity of online courses and programs. This session will focus on the process for conducting a system wide interdepartmental program review of academic programs. Quantitative and qualitative metrics will be discussed.
A Summer in Wonderland: An Engineer’s Adventure Through the World of Student ...Brown Fellows Program
Summer was broken down into two parts. The first half consisted of participating in the University of Louisville's Student Orientation Staff (SOS’er). As an SOS’er it was my responsibility to introduce the incoming Freshmen to the University, specifically I worked with the Speed School of Engineering students and helped to build many of the students' first semester schedules. The second part of the summer started my internship with Joe Dablow in the Enrollment Management office. In this internship I have applied the principles of Industrial Engineering to Enrollment Management to forecast retention rates of student cohorts and analyze the makeup of each class (original freshman, transfer, etc.). This internship will continue through the Fall semester.
Mike Sharkey's presentation on a predictive model that is in development at University of Phoenix. The model is a work in progress and the slides describe the through process that went into the modeling and some information on its current state.
How to be better at getting things done in 2022Nick DeNardis
Focuses on changing habits, making time for focused attention, using tools to take back control of your time and using tools to keep track of ideas and decisions asynchronously.
Five-minute talk as part of the How To Be Better In 2022 event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-be-better-in-2022-tickets-235361250837
Why #littlebigdetails Matter and What You Should Do About ThemNick DeNardis
The audience, structure and often the design of university websites are 90% the same (for the most part). Although your website is probably not the sole reason students enroll, it can be a detractor. The difference between a regular site and a rememberable one is the #littlebigdetails. A lot of time is spent on the “big details” of a website, like the centerpiece image, and things that everyone expects, frankly the easy decisions. The harder, but more memorable, are the little details that make a big difference in your user's experience. Learn why these details make such a large impact and how to take a step back to discover how to add a little joy to your user experience.
Designing for next steps: A forward moving Web experienceNick DeNardis
Getting a visitor to your website is only half the battle. How do you keep them? A lot of attention is put on the "action" items on a homepage, but it's more likely a visitor is landing on an interior page from a Web search or link. Every visual element, content or cue makes an impression with your visitor and influences what next step they take. The last thing you want to do is leave your visitor at a dead end or continuously force them to use the back button. With each page having a defined next step it gives your visitor a forward moving Web experience.
The idea is more than just bigger and brighter action buttons. No matter how large you make them your visitors are not going to click if they don't care. Your goal is the design an experience to make your visitors care.
Producing a mobile presence. Timeline: Yesterday...Nick DeNardis
Having a comprehensive mobile strategy is great but your users aren’t waiting around till you have have a pixel perfect solution. Your users are on their mobile devices right now waiting to access your content, having something up is better than nothing. This talk is a look at creating a practical, agile and ever evolving mobile Web presence. A mobile presence can be created on a small budget and without a lot of time. An introduction to the tools, frameworks and testing strategies needed to get a mobile website up quickly and moving in a more useful and usable direction each day.
Creating a separate mobile website is a great idea until someone changes a data source on you. Your users don’t care if your LDAP is down or why they can’t pull up next the class schedule for next semester. In this session you will learn how to plan for the worst; network outages, slow response times and unorganized data. The mobile Web isn’t very useful without content and often that content is gathered from many sources that are out of the developers control. Gathering, protecting and organizing that data is the job of a smart developer and a successful mobile Web presence. This is accomplished by adding an API layer to everything you do. This session will walk you through the ins and outs of creating and maintaining a Web API that can extend far beyond your mobile presence.
Your visitors interact with content, not with your website. Content consistency is crucial to a successful user experience. Re-publishing is one option but it’s an inside-out action that relies on the authority controlling where the information goes. An API frees your data and the responsibility to where it is published and accessed. Mobile is a major consumer for your API but not every API is setup to handle the mass of requests coming from those devices. Learn how to mobile devices consume API’s with limited or low bandwidth and how to to tailor your API to be as efficient and effective as possible.
http://environmentsforhumans.com/2012/doteduguru-summit/
Complete website redesigns are a thing of the past, it's time to think beyond the launch it and leave it mentality. Learn how to discover the pain points of your website and successfully correct them. This interactive talk will walk you through your site as an end user. Learn about A/B and multivariate testing mechanisms, how to create effective tests, and how to publish results to build credibility and authority. This talk will leave you with the ability to take away a process to build upon.
Give Your Content Legs and Run With It - PSUWEB11Nick DeNardis
Nick DeNardis & Mallory Wood
Congratulations, you have a website and it is full of content. But... what are you (the human!) doing on the back-end to make sure that visitors are finding the info they came for? Happy Visitors = Happy You. Reacting to your visitors needs, or even better, being proactive will go a long way in enhancing a visitor’s experience with your website. This session will teach you to do just that, helping you think beyond “write it and leave it” by showing you how to transform what’s generally static into long lasting social and interactive content. Let’s redefine what it means to publish content, rethink where it gets published, and rework existing content to meet your visitor’s needs.
http://psuweb11.sched.org/event/5c3d1b9d1c9140abe6d64d06d4e2dc7c
Presentation about social media tools to help start-up businesses utilize the space with the least amount of time. The presentation was given at the Wayne State University to students learning to start businesses through the Blackstone LaunchPad.
Golden Rule for the Web - #eduGuruSummitNick DeNardis
Why you cannot outsource a sustainable redesign project, but jump starting it has to come from the outside. We all know what annoys us online, why do we keep doing it to our users?
Working internally you come across various motivations and keeping the users front and center can be difficult. Learn strategies and techniques to keep the end user top of mind and driving decisions.
Flexible Web Branding, the Case Against Single Web Templates - CASEV 2010Nick DeNardis
Look at the use of single templates on higher education websites. Implementing an institution-wide template sounds like a good idea at first but how does it perform in the real world? Get insights into the pros and cons of implementing a single template across all institution websites. We will explore what works and what doesn't, from both the management and end-user prospective. Discover techniques to embrace the uniqueness of each area of your institution and how to engage your visitors along the way.
http://nickdenardis.com/
Better Design Through Analytics - #eduiconf 2010Nick DeNardis
It’s been said that “good designers redesign, great designers realign“. Design is a continual process of refinement, realignment and improvement. But how do you decide what needs refining? Do you make informed decisions or are you grasping at straws in the dark?
Web site statistics hold the key to making informed decisions, but throwing a little Google Analytics code on your site isn’t really enough.
In this half-day workshop you will learn how to use web statistics to better refine your designs. Get the basics of what all those analytics numbers mean, learn how to set measurable goals, and define conversions. Then take it to the next level with the Google Website Optimizer, A/B and multivariate testing.
Web Metrics: An Overview - #eduiconf 2010Nick DeNardis
Web site statistics hold the key to making informed decisions, but throwing a little Google Analytics code on your site isn’t really enough.
In this one hour session you will learn how to use web statistics to better refine your designs. Get the basics of what all those analytics numbers mean, learn how to set measurable goals, and define conversions.
Conference Wrap Up: http://doteduguru.com/id6217-edui-2010-conference-wrap-up.html
Presentation made by Nick DeNardis at the Case V conference on December 15, 2009 in Chicago, IL. It details the Web site redesign process of Wayne State University and how we successfully launched 350 redesigned sites in 5 years.
http://wcs.wayne.edu/casev/
Break Through the Administrative Barriers and Focus on Your Users.
http://miupa.org/fresh/break-through-the-administrative-barriers-and-focus-on-your-users/
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
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unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
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students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
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LIS7470 - Information Architecture
1. LIS7470 - Assignment I
Site: College of Engineering
Wayne State University
Nick DeNardis
February 23, 2011
1
2. LIS7470 - Assignment 1 Personas overview
Name Junior Jimmy Community Cathy Researcher Rob Ivy League Irene
Currently attending
Role/Job title High School Junior In Community College Current Grad Student
Cornell
Age/Gender 17/Male 20/Female 26/Male 28/Female
“I have always been good “I have to pay my own “Sometimes I stay all night “Always looking for great
Quote at math and science” way through school” working on projects” faculty research”
• Lives in an apartment and • Current graduate • Current graduate
• Grown and raised in has a job student
student at Cornell
Michigan • Knows she wants to be a • In the Electric-Drive • Doing research in
• Likes math and science Mechanical Engineer Vehicle Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
• Has one more semester program
• Applying for colleges
• Has a project he needs •
before transferring to a Writing her final thesis
soon
Goals four year college
to work on • Looking for
• Looking to see what • Looking to see how to collaborators on some
Wayne State has to transfer to the Wayne • Looking to get a good research
offer State College of grade in this class
• Goal: Engineering
• Goal: • Goal:
Find faculty and
Request Information • Goal: Find an open lab with
research
Apply to the school MATLab software
2
3. Wayne State College of Engineering Navigation Diagram
Home
Departments Current Faculty &
Admissions & Programs Research Alumni About Us
Students Staff
Currently Funded
Admissions Process Academic Advisors Faculty Profiles Projects Board of Directors Message from Dean
Department &
Program List
Admission Requirements Office of Student Affairs Faculty Research Research News Bylaws History
Transfer Equivalencies Student Organizations Faculty in the News Computing Facilities Hall of Fame Facts
Choose a
Program
Deadlines Courses Room Scheduling Labs & Centers Donations & Grants About the Dean
Computing Resources Associate Dean for Join the Alumni
Forms Job Postings Research Association Contact Us
(Program Name)
Honors Program Forms & Policies News & Announcements
Gradstart Program ROTC
Faculty Listing
Financial Aid & BE 1050 Orientation Project Listing
Scholarships Overview
Choose a
Apply Online Concentrations View Schedule Faculty Member Choose a
Research Project
(Faculty Member)
Curriculum Reserve a Room (Research Project)
Choose a
Facility
Information Meetings Facilities & Capabilities
Contact & Bio
Application Information Name & Amount
Description & Hours
Research
Degree Outcomes Faculty Member
Software
Publications
Request Information Policies Project Information
Workstation Layout
3
4. Find a program and apply Compiled Task Analysis
Getting ready to graduate from High School means finding colleges and submitting an application
Before Scenario After Scenario
Jimmy has looked at a few competing college websites, Jimmy will continue to look for schools and apply at other
found the program he is interested in and applied. institutions.
Scenario Path through current site Path through new site
1. Homepage
2. Academic Programs
1. Homepage
3. Electrical Engineering
1. See if the college has an electrical engineering
2. Departments & Programs
program
4. Degree Information
3. Electrical Engineering (B.S.)
2. Check to see what the degree requirements are
5. Undergraduate
4. Curriculum
3. Request information
6. ECE Curriculum (PDF)
5. Request Information
4. Find out how to apply
7. Homepage
6. Application Information
8. Prospective Students
9. Admissions
* inspired by Todd Warfel's task analysis grid
4
5. Find a program and apply Compiled Task Analysis
Getting ready to graduate from High School means finding colleges and submitting an application
Before Scenario After Scenario
Jimmy has looked at a few competing college websites, Jimmy will continue to look for schools and apply at other
found the program he is interested in and applied. institutions.
Justification
The new navigation focuses on the prospective student with the main “Admissions” area that explains everything a future
students would need to know about applying to any of the College of Engineering programs. The information is published by
the main student services office instead of by each department like it is now. This keeps the requirements consistent and
reduces redundancy.
The “Departments & Programs” menu item does a good job fulfilling the needs of two audiences. They prospective student
who is looking for information based on programs and then current student/faculty member is who looking for the
departmental sites. The landing page would be a filterable and sortable list of links to further information.
Jimmy will not have to go far to find consistent and comparable information about the programs in the college since they
each will have standard information provided. Currently each department maintains their own level of information for each
program which can vary from a few sentences to multiple pages. The calls to action will either be consistently in the menu or
in the side bar of each page. He will not have to look far to take the next step.
* inspired by Todd Warfel's task analysis grid
5
6. Transferring to a four year institution Compiled Task Analysis
Cathy is looking to transfer to a four year institution to graduate with a B.S. degree
Before Scenario After Scenario
Cathy has been taking classes at her community college Cathy will look at other area colleges to transfer to, she
and looking for a place to transfer to get a full degree. has to stay close because she has a job.
Scenario
Sub-task Path through current site Path through new site
Scenario
1. Homepage
2. Academic Programs 1. Homepage
1. Check to see if there is a program in Mechanical 3. Mechanical Engineering 2. Departments & Programs
Engineering
4. Degree Requirements 3. Mechanical Engineering (B.S.)
2. Check to see what the degree completion
requirements are 5. Prerequisites 4. Curriculum
Functionality what the transfer equivalents are
3. Check to see 6. Homepage 5. Admissions
4. Request information 7. Prospective Students 6. Transfer Equivalencies
8. Admissions 7. Request Information
9. (Dead end)
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7. Transferring to a four year institution Compiled Task Analysis
Cathy is looking to transfer to a four year institution to graduate with a B.S. degree
Before Scenario After Scenario
Cathy has been taking classes at her community college Cathy will look at other area colleges to transfer to, she
and looking for a place to transfer to get a full degree. has to stay close because she has a job.
Justification
Sub-task
Scenarioknows that she is going to transfer to a larger school and just needs to find the one that offers her the best transfer
Cathy
plan. She has invested a lot of time and money into her schooling and doesn’t want to loose it. The goes straight to the
program information to make sure WSU offers the program she is interested in. She then looks for the degree completion
requirements. From here she can also get information about degree outcomes and possibly explore current student
projects.
After ensuring WSU has the degree she is interested in she goes on to the admissions area. The “Admissions” menu item is
meant to be a one stop shop for anyone interested in applying. It explains the admissions process and has a list of transfer
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equivalencies. Cathy is interested in the equivalencies since she is transferring. The link will probably go off to a separate site
at the university but it will get her what she needs. There is a “Transfer Credit” department which handles the complicated
task of matching courses from any other school to WSU’s.
Cathy will be able to make an informed decision by taking these steps. If she needs more information she can request it
from the menu.
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8. Finding a lab with specific software Compiled Task Analysis
Rob is a hard worker and often needs to find a computer to do research on, finding one that is open should be easy
Before Scenario After Scenario
Rob is looking over the requirements of his project and he Rob is going to the lab to work on his project.
needs to do some programming in MATLab. He needs to
find a campus computer to do his work on.
Scenario
Sub-task Path through new site Path through new site
Scenario 1. Homepage
1. Homepage
2. Computing
2. Current Students
3. Engineering Computing Center
3. Computing Resources
4. Software
1. Check to see if the school offers MATLAB
4. Facilities & Capabilities
software use
5. Software Availability
5. Software
2. Check to see if the what labs have that software
6. MATLAB - List of Rooms
Functionality 6. MATLAB
3. Check to see if there is availability in those labs
7. (Click each room)
7. (Choose a lab)
8. (Back two pages)
8. Description & Hours
9. View Schedule
9. View Schedule
10. (Find rooms)
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9. Finding a lab with specific software Compiled Task Analysis
Rob is a hard worker and often needs to find a computer to do research on, finding one that is open should be easy
Before Scenario After Scenario
Rob is looking over the requirements of his project and he Rob is going to the lab to work on his project.
needs to do some programming in MATLab. He needs to
find a campus computer to do his work on.
Justification
Sub-task
Scenario
Rob has been to the College of Engineering website before. He is a current student so he knows that information he needs
and wants it quickly. He goes straight for the “Current Students” menu item. This is the place for students to interact with the
college at an administrative and tactile level.
There are two kinda of computing resources available to the students/faculty, they are technical support and facility services.
Instead of forcing a user to guess the responsibilities of each IT area the navigation was redesigned to be task based. This
way the visitor can find what they need and be directed to the correct department without having to make any other
Functionality current navigation forces the visitors to pick an IT department to interact with.
decisions. The
The room scheduling area is broken down into two areas, when each room is available and what its capabilities are. Rob is
looking for capabilities first then checks the availability. Since all engineering labs are dual purpose, both labs and teaching
rooms it is important to not only find the lab needed but also ensure it is available at the time desired. The new navigation
allows Rob to do that while the current navigation has this information disconnected forcing visitors to use the back button.
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10. Looking for a research collaborator Compiled Task Analysis
Irene is always on the hunt for great engineering research and has decided to see what is going on at WSU
Before Scenario After Scenario
Irene is working on her Mechanical Engineering thesis and Irene will e-mail the faculty member(s) to start a larger
is looking for faculty across the nation to collaborate with. discussion.
Scenario
Sub-task Path through current site Path through new site
Scenario 1. Homepage 1. Homepage
1. Currently doing research on mechanical 2. Faculty 2. Faculty & Staff
engineering
3. (Search by mechanical engineering) 3. Faculty Research
2. Check to see what faculty is in the mechanical eng 4. Select a faculty member 4. (Search by mechanical engineering)
department
5. Browse their Research 5. Select a faculty member
3. Look at a specific faculty members profile to see
6. (Back to homepage) 6. Browse their Research
their research
7. Click “Research” main menu item 7. Click “Research” main menu item
Functionality all the current mechanical eng
4. Check to see
research projects 8. Funded Research Projects 8. Currently Funded Projects
5. Check out the progress of an interesting project 9. (Scroll down to mechanical 9. (Filter by mechanical engineering)
engineering)
10. (Find interesting project)
6. Contact the faculty member to see if they can 10.(View only information)
collaborate 11. View Faculty Member’s Profile
11.Has to go back to the faculty list to
view their profile and contact info 12. Contact Faculty Member
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11. Looking for a research collaborator Compiled Task Analysis
Irene is always on the hunt for great engineering research and has decided to see what is going on at WSU
Before Scenario After Scenario
Irene is working on her Mechanical Engineering thesis and Irene will e-mail the faculty member(s) to start a larger
is looking for faculty across the nation to collaborate with. discussion.
Justification
Sub-task
Scenario
Irene is a hard worker and she knows how to network. For her getting an edge over her other classmates is important. Her
approach includes reaching out to faculty at other institutions to get insights into bleeding edge research. She does this a lot
and doesn’t have time to waste sifting through every faculty member’s individual profiles.
She goes right to the research related to mechanical engineering. The navigation allows for faculty to enter all of their
research when then get extracted to a categorized list. This allows a visitor to search by topic or by name. Irene uses the
topic based search first. Once she finds the research project that interests her she clicks on the faculty members name to
Functionality bio.
see their full
From here she can read all about their education, accomplishments and additional research. Each faculty member has a
standard profile structure so it is easy for her to scan and find information. She locates their e-mail address and clicks to
send them a message to start a larger discussion. The dual format of information allows for great discoverability of each
faculty member. The currently navigation and layout make this information disconnected and inconsistent.
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