Status Report

This week we spent time planning and setting priorities for the remainder of the semester. We set 7 priorities:

• Establishing and implementing 508 Plan
• Identifying technical and visual errors
• Application and review of Design and E-Learning Principles
• Evaluation synthesis and expert panel
• Presentation preparation and process
• Road Show: Virginia Tech and Radford (optional)

Cindy presented the compiled usability results report to the group.

Teachers:

• Liked the site and found it easy to use AFTER they had some time to navigate and explore.
  • Thought tabs were confusing
• Liked Items in the spotlight
• Didn't notice links in the colored bar under the tabs
• Printing a webshop was confusing
• Category to sub category was counter intuitive

Suggestions:

• Would like to be able to preview success stories
• Make links in colored section (under tabs) buttons
• Add contact regions to the top of the page and resources page
• Would like to limit the amount of personal information they have to input for Success Stories and Discussion Board
• Use print icons and reevaluate directions
• Consider wording on subcategories.

Staff:

• Webshop metaphor was not used or obvious
• Confused about the difference between a webshop and a module (didn't use metaphor)
• Confusion about Alt Tags
• Some of the webshop directions were unclear

Comments:

• Easy to use and navigate
• Clear Purpose
• Webshops were easy to use and understand
  • Liked the step by step process
  • Liked the many choices

We discussed the design suggestions provided by Michelle, a professional graphic designer. We are going to implement some of the suggestions provided by her and the usability tests.