User Design and Testing Samples
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AI for Presentation Skills: A Use Case Study
The share-out documents summarize the rapid-iteration design process which aimed to investigate the viability of implementing an AI audience tool (through the development of use cases and corresponding prototypes) for online students to practice presentation skills.
Audience: Primary audience of instructional designers and educators with a secondary audience of those interested in AI tools
Responsibilities: Instructional design (use case development and rapid-iteration prototyping); evaluation
Tools Used: AI presentation audience tool, Brightspace LMS, Microsoft tools (SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint)
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Clear Communication: Analyzing and Testing Rubrics
This project involved analyzing courses and designing in-term testing of a newly developed “Clear Communication” rubric criterion row which would potentially replace existing variations of the “Articulation of Response” rubric criterion row across the university catalog
Audience: Primarily online educators and undergraduate learners with a secondary audience of instructional designers
Responsibilities: Needs analysis (for course selection; of articulation/communication rubric criteria; and treatment of audience expectations within formative and summative assessments); prototyping; UX testing
Tools Used: Microsoft Tools (PowerBi, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Brightspace LMS, Qualtrics, UserZoom
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Discussion Board Rubrics: Balancing Mastery with Engagement
This project moved from an initial working group tasked with investigating potential changes to the standard undergraduate discussion board rubric through developing UX testing (moderated, unmoderated, and focus groups) as well as designing and implementing in-term A/B live course testing
Audience: Undergraduate learners; faculty leadership and training facilitators; and instructional designers
Responsibilities: Project management, instructional design, UX design and testing
Tools Used: Brightspace, Microsoft Tools (Sharepoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), UserZoom, AI Tools (ChatGPT, Bard)