Contextual Inquiry

Teaching a new class or student is often daunting and difficult. Oftentimes teaching styles and learning methods do not sync and for many students this becomes a major barrier in the learning process. In any type of learning environment whether it be in sports, academia or extracurricular there are disconnects between teachers and students. Recognizing that every student is different and learns through different means creates difficulty in designing lesson plans that engage, challenge and develop every type of student.

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User Testing

TeamTeach serves ultimately one purpose: to help the educators to divide the students into optimized learning groups. First we decided to make TeamTeach a desktop application because most educators (such as professors, lecturers, or managers) use desktop platform to contact their students. So by making TeamTeach a desktop application, we can open up the future possibility of integrating TeamTeach with other applications such as myUW or Catalyst. To achieve TeamTeach’s ultimate purpose, users only need to follow two easy steps: 1) create a new class profile, and 2) create a group list for that class.

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Task Analysis

The main customers using the system will be educators, trainers and people coordinating group projects of any sort. After observing studentteacher interactions in class and interviewing teachers as well, it can be argued that using the system in the academic world will inevitably spread system use to other sectors such as nonprofit, companies both global and local as well as retail environments. Wherever there is education in a group setting, the system can be applied to that specific area.

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Interactive Prototype

So by making TeamTeach a desktop application, we can open up the future possibilityof integrating TeamTeach with other applications such as myUW or Catalyst.To achieve TeamTeach’s ultimate purpose, users only need to follow two easy steps: 1) create a new class profile, and 2) create a group list for that class.

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I wish there was an easier way to form groups based on learning styles or majors...