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Curriculum Engine

Next-generation digital education course platform for US district school teachers: aligned with common standards

  • MEET CURRICULUM ENGINE

Overview

Curriculum Engine is a powerful education app specifically designed for US district schools, offering tailored programs for states such as Georgia, California, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas. With its state-specific customization, including the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this app ensures seamless course management and effective planning. Teachers can easily navigate and customize course materials to align with their school's curriculum standards, whether it's the CCSS or other state-specific requirements. By providing a comprehensive solution that incorporates the CCSS and state-specific standards, Curriculum Engine empowers teachers to deliver high-quality education that meets the rigorous standards set at both the national and state levels.

Deliverables

UX/UI Design:

  • Analysis of data

  • Analysis of data

  • Stakeholder interviews

  • Information Architecture

  • Low fidelity wireframes

  • High fidelity prototype

  • Usability tests

Classes

Classes

Course

Course

Problems

  • Teachers had navigational challenges and confusion while using the app, leading to inefficiency in their workflow

  • Users were facing difficulty in locating and identifying previously modified content, resulting in a lack of visibility and awareness of the changes made. ( No hierarchy)

  • Research suggested 45% of users are spending more than 5 hours a week curating their educational resources in general

Proposed Solutions

  • Establishing a clear hierarchy within the system

  • Organize items based on their relevance and ensure that Topics, Units, and Lessons were easily recognizable for users.

  • Avoid complex screens to reduce cognitive load and increase user satisfaction

  • Fewer options to see and focusing on what’s needed

  • Keep users informed about the progress and status of different tasks

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Open Research

Wish to review the whole study?

Open Research

Wish to review the whole study?

Open Research

Educators' Final Results

After some prototyping testing and enriched meetings with stakeholders and teachers, we found we had to step back a little in order to move on the right path. At this step we simplified a little more the UX structure of the app, having as a result that the “Assignments” were the main part of the app, and the course would be as the workbook.

In other words it became a 2 tab model, were the assignments would be the place were the teacher send out activities to students, for the course tab we ended up creating the same approach as the wireframes made before were the teacher can see the workbook and create assignments to be published on the assignments tab.

Final results

Based on usability testing conducted with a group of teachers from Florida and Georgia (5 participants), we successfully improved the task completion for the identified problem of managing the course

50

50

%

Less navigation clicks

Less navigation clicks

Was reduced from 8 clicks to 4 clicks. Going from class to a learning object

60

60

%

Navigation Optimization

Navigation Optimization

Was reduced from 5 clicks if user didn’t get lost to only 2 clicks

5 of 5

5 of 5

Users completed their tasks

Users completed their tasks

Users completed tasks of navigation to a learning object and also the creation of the assignment

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2024 © Daniel Rodrigues Studio

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2024 © Daniel Rodrigues Studio

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