Study Buddy
Developing of education app to make it more accessible
What's the app
This app is tailored to the modern learning style of elementary school students. It addresses issues like loss of concentration and network disruptions that hinder studying and completing assignments online.
The app features a character named 'Pengii,' who helps students engage with quiz assignments even offline, making learning enjoyable while also enhancing their self-regulation skills.
Overview
Task
How to built self-regulation to each student.
Goal
Homework uploading
Download - friendly
Helpmascot
Self initiated timer
Wifi + Accessibility
Insight
Users can ensure timely completion of their projects by keeping themselves responsible and their parents involved
User can download the textbook, homework, etc without worrying about the connection.
User can develop habits to use the app (self-study) every day. Also, you can become a good planner because of the “Goal for the week”, “Calendar”, and “to do list” sections.
Attribute
Create an educational app that enables teachers to upload homework, tracks student progress with timers, offers a “Teacher help” feature, and provides notifications for homework deadlines, tailored to support students with a attention difficulties, in building good study habits and independent learning.
Value
Playfulness
Self-Regulation
Self-Monitoring / Parental-Monitoring
Considerations
Some student might get uncomfortable that their parents track their study progress.
Some people might feel irritated the character.
Research
Based on an April 2021 survey from the Pew Research Center, it was found that parents of American K-12 children faced technology-related obstacles:
27% said their children had to do work on a cellphone.
16% said their child could not complete schoolwork because of a lack of computer access at home.
15% said their child had to use public Wi-Fi to finish schoolwork because there wasn’t reliable connectivity in their household.
Persona
Sympathy map
Key Features
Homework Uploading
Allows teachers to customize their questions with a variety of different question types, and upload it to the platform for their students to complete.
Download-Friendly
Students have the option to download their assignments while they have wifi (before they leave school, or at the library) and complete their assignments without connectivity. They can also download worksheets and other helpful material to help them complete these assignments.
Helper Mascot
With WiFi, students can access the helpful mascot, who can provide them help, help them control the timer, among other things.
Attribute
With WiFi, students can access the helpful mascot, who can provide them help, help them control the timer, among other things.
Self-Initiated Timer
To help with self-regulation, students can control a timer that restricts their usage of other applications while they’re doing homework. They can freely choose to turn it off or on, but it affects their score.
Style Guid
Lofi Prototype
Problems
Learning about and addressing the issues that arose for students during the pandemic presented a bit of a challenge. The schooling environment changed drastically, so we needed to think of ways to adapt and make the process easier for our users.
Challnege
Integrating the features that we wanted to include in a cohesive and intuitive way that makes use practical and fun
Summary
I could figure out how to integrate the features and our team had strong communication.
To develop the application individually, I need to think about the user’s side due to the mass of information which we collected. Therefore, the character is added as AI and talks to students on any topic which can even support their feelings.