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Blackboard Collaborate - Breakout Groups


Breakout Groups
Breakout Groups are one of the main features and worflows instructor use during their online teaching. They use Breakout Groups as a way to keep track os stundents performance, increase participation, and ensure engagement during sessions.


CHALLENGE
How can we provide a better experiences when in come to working in groups in virtual environments?
Instructor expressed the need of having a better workflow during prior research so we prioritize the feature to start buildin a better experience.
POC PLANNING
Since it’s a current feature available within the product, we plan to start with a Proof of Concept to evaluate not only the product technical capabilities but also the initial flow version based on users feedback.

We built a plant alongside with content team, to test with users to analyze the most useful and accurate flow that they expect to use during virtual sessions. 

We get feedback not only on what flow makes sense to them but also on common visual patterns they're used to. In addition, we detected an ambiguity related to the wording on the screen.
For validating wording they used to use in their teaching, we ran a second validation specifically to validate it and reduce the ambiguity of the actions in the interface.
Finally, we build the final PoC version which will be delivered to end-users soon.
We'll be tracking during the first release, getting data and feedback again so that we can continue to improve the feature.
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