CEP817

Barbara Bloemers

Fall 2006

Module 7 ~ User Testing

My test group included 5 students: a Junior and two freshman in college and 2 high school freshman. They were given to following checklist and directions as a guide when testing my site:

DIRECTIONS:
The Big Kahuna Project will be a resource page for the Administrative Staff to access the following information to supplement instructional lessons and technological information:

  • PowerPoint Tutorials (3 Levels)
  • Computer Maintenance Tips
  • Satellite Class Schedule
  • Top 10 Reasons to Attend Satellite Classes

My site can be found at:

Keeping Up with Technology at Work

Visit the site, Keeping Up with Technology at Work. Please note the web site is under construction.

After visiting the site, please provide your honest and critical feedback to the following questions.

  1. What is your first impression of the web site?

Simple, to the point

Simple, easy to navigate, professional

Appealing colors and appearance. I like the graphics and fonts.

Web site looks easy to use and the layout is user friendly.

It goes along with the MSU theme. It is very simple and straightforward.

  1. Is the web site easy to understand?

Yes

Yes

Yes, neatly organized.

Yes

Yes

  1. Without any further instruction, what link would you open 1st, 2nd and 3rd?

Level 1, 2 and 3

Level 1, 2 and 3

Year 1, 2, 3

Level 1, then 2, then 3.

The PowerPoint Level 1, Web 2.0 technologies, computer maintenance.

  1. If color is not mentioned, how do you feel about the colors, organization, and information?

I don’t like the clicked line being purple.

Good colors (MSU), The organization was pretty good, and information was important, useful, not useless.

Colors are appealing, neatly organized, and information is systematically displayed.

The colors are a little bland, but the organization and information is good.

Colors are good. It is well organized and has useful information.

  1. Check out the PowerPoint. Did you find them informational?

Yes

Yes, too many animations that are distracting.

Yes

Yes

Yes, the pictures on what it should look like are a very nice touch.

  1. Did you learn anything new from the three levels of instruction?

Yes, about PowerPoint

No, but I am fairly well acquainted with PowerPoint.

Yes

I did.

No

  1. Do you feel the resources will be of value to administrative staff consisting of managers, analysts and team leaders?

If they take part.

Yes, they could use that information to help their businesses.

Yes

Yes

Yes

  1. What other resources would you think to be of value?

Google.com

Wikipedia.com

--

I think all resources were included.

Ask.com

User Feedback

Changes: I have taken into consideration that the animated graphic might be too distracting but since the website has so much information to read, I feel a little movement to be useful.

Although I stressed candidness, I think my sons and their friends might have been too kind.