Altera: Attendance App

Type: App Design

Role(s): UI/UX Designer

Tools: Axure RP 10, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

OVERVIEW…

Atlera is an attendance and assignment application meant to help college professors track attendance, post grades and assignments, interact with students, and manage classes.

Because some colleges don’t track attendance, Atlera targets niche colleges that incorporate attendance tracking and smaller class admission. A good example of this is the Pennsylvania College of Art + Design. The college surrounds itself in the arts and typically admits smaller class-sizes throughtout the semester. This allows professors to pursue personalized learning opportunities and track attendance.

PROJECT DETAILS

Create an attendance & assignment app for college professors.

USER NEEDS

The user needs to manage and organize classes
The user needs to find and upload assignments
The user needs to post students grades
The user needs to post announcements and updates for their students

PROBLEM STATEMENTS

Professors need to manage and organize classes because professors may teach multiple classes or lead busy lives
Professors need to find and upload assignments because professors want students to clearly find what they’re looking for
Professors need to upload grades because they need to keep track of the classes progress
Professors need to post announcements and updates to their students because professors may need to cancel or re-schedule a class

HOW MIGHT WE

How Might We create UI that professors can use swiftly and with proficiency
How Might We create UI that helps professors and students easily find and manage assignments and projects
How Might We lay information out so that’s it’s easy to scan and review
How Might We let professors interact with all of their students swiftly and easily

DEFINING THE USER…

Starting off, I created some user profiles based on the target audience. These activities were meant to help create empathy and help keep focus on the target audiences user needs and pain points.

Name: Professor Eric Burch

Age: 46 years old

Teaches: Criminal Justice at Temple University

Professional Traits: Works as a crime analyst, been in practice for over 20 years, hopes to teach and inspire his students, very organized and efficient – makes sure to upload assignments and reply back to students emails in a timely fashion, demeanor is serious but kind

Personal: Eric has a wife and 2 young kids. He works as a crime analyst. When he’s not working or being a dad, he teaches improv classes on the side. He has a huge passion for theatre and hopes to retire one day and write screen plays about his experiences in the field.

Name: Professor Emilia Locketch

Age: 41 years old

Teaches: Gender and Sexuality Studies – Loyola University Maryland

Professional Traits: Works for a non-profit that creates a safe space for teens and young adults dealing with home care and mental illness needs. She hopes to help and encourage the youth to be who they are and follow their dreams. She’s not great with technology and takes a while to get the hang of new applications and systems. Sometimes she forgets to upload assignments and projects and it helps for her to have an easy to use system that can help her do it fast and efficiently.

Personal: Outside of her job and classes, she loves to spend time with her mother and kids. She also goes hiking during the weekends and hosts meditation classes with close friends.