SLNotes Student-Lecturer Notes CS160 Group 6 Brian Chu, Jen Hsu, Eva Lo, Orna Tarshish.

SLNotesSLNotesStudent-Lecturer Notes

CS160Group 6

Brian Chu, Jen Hsu, Eva Lo, Orna Tarshish

OverviewOverviewCurrent Problems Faced by StudentsSolving the Problems - SLNotesRepresentative Tasks for SLNotesSLNotes’ EvolutionFinal SLNotes’ UI DescriptionFuture Works of SLNotesSummary

Current Problems Faced by Current Problems Faced by StudentsStudents

Difficulties faced by students in viewing notes in a large-sized lecture room

Inefficient note-taking practices which prevents students from engaging themselves in lecture

Confusions generated when students have creative questions on lecturer’s notes

Solving the Problems - SLNotesSolving the Problems - SLNotes

Provide real-time lecture notes for students

Help students in viewing and managing their notes

Allow students to annotate the professors’ lecture notes instantly

Allow students to convey idea to the professor more easily

Representative Tasks for Representative Tasks for SLNotesSLNotes

Tasks are chosen in order to meet with the majordifficulties encountered by students in current lecture

setting:

1) Receiving and annotating on real-time lecture notes

2) Moving between lecture notes3) Sending questions with annotations to the

professor

SLNotes’ Evolution I (Idea to SLNotes’ Evolution I (Idea to Lo-Fi)Lo-Fi)

Major Changes: Renaming of pull-down menu items Change of graphics for icons

SLNotes’ SLNotes’ Evolution II (Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi)Evolution II (Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi)

Major Changes: Integration of notes window and margin notes window into 1

window Use of send question window Change of “Go To Page” to include all lecture notes with page

numbers

Other Changes: Change from graphical icons (“” and “”) to textual icons

(“send” and “cancel”) Move toolbar to the bottom of the window Highlighting arrow buttons to indicate updates from professor

Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi Modification ILo-Fi to Hi-Fi Modification I

Lo-Fi Prototype Hi-Fi Prototype

Integration into 1 window

Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi Modification IILo-Fi to Hi-Fi Modification II

Lo-Fi Prototype Hi-Fi Prototype

Use of “Send Question” window

Lo-Fi Prototype Hi-Fi Prototype

Change of “Go To Page”

Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi Modification IIILo-Fi to Hi-Fi Modification III

SLNotes’ SLNotes’ Evolution II (Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi)Evolution II (Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi)

Major Changes: Integration of notes window and margin notes window into 1

window Use of send question window Change of “Go To Page” to include all lecture notes with page

numbers

Other Changes: Change from graphical icons (“” and “”) to textual icons

(“send” and “cancel”) Move toolbar to the bottom of the window Highlighting arrow buttons to indicate updates from professor

Major Changes1) Included “Bubble Text” over icons

2) Integrated send free-form question and send overlay question windows

SLNotes’ SLNotes’ Evolution III (Hi-Fi to Final)Evolution III (Hi-Fi to Final)

Hi-Fi Prototype

Final Prototype

Other Changes1) Fixed inconsistency in file menu

2) Modified main menu title to show users’ connection status

3) Changed Pen Color Dialog

4) Rearranged toolbar icons

5) Added “Tip of the day” message

SLNotes’ SLNotes’ Evolution III (Hi-Fi to Final)Evolution III (Hi-Fi to Final)

Future Work on Future Work on SLNotesSLNotes

Incorporate keyboard usage – Add hot-keys for often used actions

Add further editing options such as highlighting, undo, redo etc

List & status of sent questionsCustom design of the main window layout

SummarySummary

• SLNotes is the next step towards the “digital classroom”

• SLNotes emphasizes learning through interaction• SLNotes avoids confusion and shortens the distance

between professors and students• SLNotes provides flexibility for students to organize

and manage notes efficiently

Questions?Questions?