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Signaling that an integration is active for the current course in an LMS

I have an LMS webapp for which I created an integration with Google Classroom. The integration can be enalbed by teachers on a per-course basis from an "integration settings" page of the ...
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Double top-app bar

I created a webapp-based learning management system, and I'm debating whether a decision I took regarding the top app bar(s) is sound or could cause issues when it comes to user experience and ...
Samuele B.'s user avatar
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Video learning platform for User Experience Resources

Having recently made a transition from software development & cloud architecture to a purely User Experience Research & Human Factors role I was wondering if there are suggested video ...
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Refund policy for a risk-free purchase of a short online course [closed]

I am building a website for celling and teaching online courses of my own making. Consider a course that consists of 50 videos for a total of seven hours. I would like to offer a refund policy that ...
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How best to conduct user research on existing textual documents?

My team and I are designing an online service that hosts learning material in the form of articles with various sections that take maybe 10 minutes to read. While we can't change the content, we can ...
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Editor for teachers to create exam, exercises, and questions

I'm making a webapp for my local university, which allows teachers to create exams made up of open-ended/multiple-choice questions and JavaScript programming exercises, as well as group them by topic ...
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Is there a reason to not allow fast forwarding on a video player?

My University's Calculus textbook has a companion eBook. The eBook has a couple of tutorial videos in each section. Some of the players prevent you from moving the scrubber forward to a point later ...
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How to display interactive true/false questions for learning?

I am designing a widget to appear on a health-related website and present health-related true/false questions. The goal is to engage visitors and help them learn some potentially useful things. Brief ...
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How does providing feedback influence quiz performance?

Working on the design of an online quiz tool, I'm considering what would be the best way to give feedback to the users. It's about multiple choice tests used for knowledge testing of health care ...
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Best type of UX for a asking visitors on a site a question?

I am trying to design a UX that allows random visitors on a website to quickly give us information about what books they/their child are reading in school. The site itself is a company that provides ...
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Does hiding generic navigation elements improve readabilty?

I'm working on an application for studying a course. Users will use it to augment their learning, and will read course information, as well as do some tests, etc. The current design has a left-column ...
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How can I use gamification to encourage people to complete mundane but required tasks?

I am looking for ways to improve the likelihood people will perform mundane but required tasks. I am looking into gamification techniques. One of the tasks for my organisation is to complete required ...
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Seeking info about the theory of patterns and pattern language [closed]

My PhD studies are about patterns and educational learning software. I want to write about what I personally call the «theory of patterns», from «what is a pattern» to «why did I choose this type of ...
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Improving the UX of Clippy

Some 10 years ago, Microsoft tried to introduce a personal assistant for his Office suite, Clippy, in order to help their users discover new features. Even if there seem to be people that like it (MS ...
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Fixed height web pages and e-learning

We are developing some e-learning materials and I am having discussions regarding a fixed height "wrapper". I strongly disagree with the idea of fixed height, it goes against so many UX principles. ...
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