Overview

The Problem

With remote learning on the rise due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic Trac is an application aimed at students with the goal of creating an intuitive platform that promotes self-regulation and time management amongst students.

The Challenge

How might we develop a mobile application that helps students keep track of their course work and manage their time?

Research

Interviews

To be able to empathise with how students have been operating in the new e-learning environment we conducted nine user interviews from students in various university and college programs. We asked questions focusing on three main metrics.

Interview Question Criteria

Self Regulation

Communication

Engagement

Insights

Troubles around self-organizing deadlines

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“I waste time with current e-learning platforms trying to make sense of things that aren't set up properly, or just missing information.”

Troubles locating information

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“Sometimes they post it on slate and not on teams, so we get confused. So we have to go to slate to find it. Submissions for certain projects appear on teams but not on slate”

Students felt it was difficult to manage their time

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“I did start to use the tool called notion - over time i stopped using it and started to rely on texting my classmates to understand what was going on and I started to comment on the team's channel itself to know what was going on.”

Design

Brainstorming

Features to address these needs

Tasks

Priority
Notifications
Sync Platforms
Peer Collaboration

Dashboard

All components from experience into one concise page

Calendar

Weekly / Monthly
Assignments / Tasks

System Map

Low Fidelity Wireframes

Design System

Onboarding

Getting Started

Onboarding #1

Onboarding #2

Onboarding #3

Sign up

Create Account

Sync Apps

Sign In

Application

Dashboard

Calendar

Create a Task

Profile

Solution

Dashboard

Provides users with an an overview of their week. At a glance they are able to see upcoming deadlines and on going projects.

Calendar

Features all created tasks colour coded by the user in a monthly view.

Tasks

Tasks can be imported through the students e-learning platform or manually created by the student. To promote collaboration Trac tasks can also be shared with other students.

Takeaways