Classroom experience for Zoom - UX Project
Problem Statement: Due to the pandemic, Most of the schools adopted online tools such as zoom to teach and interact with students. But these tools are not able to recreate the actual interactive experience for a teacher to manage the students. Create a student- teacher classroom experience for Zoom app to help teacher monitor and control the classroom teaching.
Solution:
We brought in the concept of “Teach” in the home screen of Zoom. It is a paid plan for teachers which gives them the teach option which has all the new features especially designed for them.
Dashboard for teacher which shows the time-table, some fast notes, their next class, which they can join directly from here and also acts as a repository for class presentations, quiz and assignments..
A randomised attendance concept, where the teachers can randomly push the attendance request to their students. This ensures, children stay for the whole class.
We added the quiz feature to make sure children are attentive in the class. The teacher can share a test they have arranged in advance (in the dashboard) for the students to answer with the given time limit.
This shows the students’ screen during the test.
The breakout room feature was available in Zoom but in the advance section so we brought the breakout room option into the participants’s section. We added the feature of voice broadcast along with the existing, broadcast chat feature.
The All Room screen (image 3) feature was added where the teacher can see all the groups/rooms together. She can unmute one group, while others remain on mute. This feature can be used for group presentations, debates and other intra class competitions and activities.
The teacher can step into each room just like they could before too but they can now switch between rooms with just the drop-down menu. Clicking on All rooms will take them to the previous screen.
The speaker spotlight is the new update we’ve brought to Zoom where the speaker gets automatically spotlighted as a popup window.
When the students raise their hand during the class, the teacher gets a notification. The notification won’t go until the teacher manually closes it, thus solving the problem of teachers not knowing who raised the hand and when? The teacher can choose to unmute or close. Unmuting will popup the speaker and dim everything else. Closing the notification will send it to a list under participants as shown in image 3.
You can read the detailed case study on medium:
medium.com/@vidulakhera/ux-case-study-classroom-experience-for-zoom-8ddec966caf2
