A platform for students daily to manage their courses, resources and assignments.
One of the key features of RIT Mycourses for students is to view resources and upload assignments. In the existing system, information is classified by courses, and listed in chronological order, which makes users have to search for and open resources from different dates repeatedly to finish assignments.Do we really need everything to be categorized in this way?
What if.... Students can have a holistic understanding of the knowledge, see connections and patterns between seemingly disparate subjects, and to use this knowledge to solve complex problems?
Design Process
Research
Problem Observed
Brainstorming
User Observation
Objectives
Concepts that power the project.
User Flow
To allow users to accomplish assignments easily, I developed new user flows to simplify the old complicated ways and help users decrease times of switching pages.
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Overview
Mind Map
I conducted a mind map to figure out the design to help students learn efficiently.
How might we learn efficiently and increase engagement?Then I realized that it's not only about a course management system that reminds students of the due dates and provides everything. There are also some active learning techniques, like:
• solve problems immediately and teach each other;
• make notes for review;
• highlight key resources and check frequently;
• receive feedback and see progress clearly;
and I can also use friendly visual styles to increase users' interest.
How might we build connection of knowledge?To build the connection of knowledge, students can use the same knowledge to solve similar problems and related content can be recommended to deepen one's understanding of the field.
Effortless assignment management system.
Final Frames
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Accomplish Easily
Manage ongoing assignments and new contentPresent all the assignments in order of the deadlines.
Users can clearly distinguish and filter assignments and the courses due to the specific colors.
The newly updated content can also be noticed.
Related contentsRelated resources are provided to help students accomplish assignments.
All in one pageSee requirements, notes, comments, and feedback all in one  window. Users can find everything related to this assignment in it.
Quick uploadStudents can either use the submit button or drag it to upload documents.
Learn Efficiently
Highlight important contentUsers can chat with classmates and professors instantly to solve  problems while learning.
See similar contents to reinforce memorySimilar contents are recommended to expand students’ knowledge in the same field and strengthen their memory.  Users can just keep exploring all these fields one by one based on personal interests .
Improve overall performanceSome knowledge is so important and frequently used. Learning one piece of content may help users do better in other assignments.
Save and reviewTake shortcuts to most used resources on the home page.
Recommended contentsShow recommended content based on its relevance to assignments and the classmates’ activity. Users can refresh this section to find the content they are interested in.
See progressOrganize all the grades in one table and users can use filters to see their progress in each course.
Engage Fully
Always get notifiedThere are always some emergencies and problems that professors have to deal with over and over in case the students don’t miss the notification. This section helps students to check the brief messages.
Learn together Who has already read this content? Let's learn with others’ company.
What's more, chat with the classmates and professors while having problems!
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