Goal
Create a web platform that would help English teachers to keep up with their students' progress. These teachers usually take care of several classes and need to manage many students at the same time.
Research
At the beginning of the project, we had to better understand the day-to-day life of Edusim's English teachers. These teachers do not use traditional teaching methods, they teach more in a practical way, using Edusim's chatbot.
At Edusim, students interact through a chatbot to do vocabulary, grammar and conversation exercises. In this scenario teachers have a more guiding role, selecting the activities and giving support in the exercises.
To map out this new teacher profile, we talked to some teachers who used Chatbot and the CEO of Edusim. See Lilian's Empathy Map, an English teacher:
Empathy map: Liliam (English teacher)
Prototyping
After immersing ourselves in this new model of teaching English, we began to sketch some solutions.
The biggest challenge of this project was to create a macro view of each student's progress. In this way, the teacher could quickly see where the difficulties of each student are and have a parameter of how the classroom is progressing.
To evaluate students' progress, Edusim uses a method called CEFR. This method looks like an array of skills and competences that frames students at levels A, B, and C.
In this project, we made wireframes to work on information architecture and prototype quickly. See the wireframe of the student profile page:
Wireframe: Student profile page
After a few rounds of feedback, we made a more refined version of the prototype using Sketch. See the page mockup for the list of students in a class:
Mockup: Student list page
Note that in this list, the teacher is able to have a comparative view of the student's evolution. In each student line of the table, the squares represent activities that need to be done through the Chatbot.
Validation
In this project our company wasn't hired for carrying out usability testing or other sort of validation. We only helped the developers to code our prototypes, handing off the assets/documentation and clarifying doubts.
