18 February 2010

Today, I talked to my beta-tester, and reminded her that I needed the survey completed. She promised to have it done by Monday, and at this point that's the most I can ask for. In the meantime, I've decided to go through all of the links myself, trying to make sure the site functions completely correctly.

17 February 2010

Although I am not quite done with my testing, I need to implement my project so that I am able to have an observed result for Criterion K. Although the effectiveness might be decreased, the site will still, hopefully be helpful. I posted the link on the math team's edline page (where news about upcoming meets and such are posted), and began telling my math team peers about the site.

16 February 2010

Today, I was supposed to turn in my second revisions for Criterion J. However, my second tester has yet to return their survey. My teacher said that I could have an extension, but that it would probably be preferable to simply begin my end-user tests as soon as possible, even if the second set of revisions has not yet been returned.

8 February 2010

None of the math team coaches have yet responded to my request that one of them volunteer to be a beta-tester. After thinking this over, and noticing that my deadline was fast approaching, I personally asked one of the teachers, Mrs. Christine Kashiwabara. I sent her the questionnaire today, and will attempt to make my own changes while I wait for her to return it to me.

3 February 2010

Today, I sent out the link for my project to all three of the math team coaches. Accompanying this email was a request that one of them be a beta-tester for the project.

Although not all three will test, it would still be useful for them to view the site. After all, they have extensive knowledge of math, and could mention if they saw anything immediately out of place.

21 January 2010

Today, I began my write-up of Criterion J; this includes a summary of the revisions suggested, revisions made, and why my beta-tester was qualified. Here is a copy of what I will turn in tomorrow:

Criterion J

Beta Tester: Jane Krot

Jane is a qualified beta tester because she is a mathlete, having been on the team for three years. She knows the general process of testing and studying, and is aware of the current difficulties with finding information. By having her test my project, I will have an idea of how an average mathlete would view and navigate through the site. She would know if the layout was confusing, or if a formula was incorrect.

Refinements suggested:

-Several of the links were broken, or only worked on some of the pages

-Practice test pictures posed an issue. For nearly every test page, where there should have been three collapsible panels with test pictures, there were only broken images or tests that did not show up.

-Many of the practice tests that did show up were out of order

-Others were upside down

- Some of the scanned images are difficult to read

- Add more information to some of the later pages

(see questionnaire, attached)

Refinements Made

1. I completely edited the practice test pages. Apparently, because all the test images were in different folders initially, many of them had the same name. When I uploaded the site, and all files were placed in the same folder, the duplicate-named images overwrote each other. As a result, only about five practice tests were actually uploaded.

To fix this, I renamed all of the images, then placed them all in the same folder to ensure that there was no duplication. I also have to fix the relative path in the dreamweaver program, so that the correct images were accessed. In addition, I rotated images so they were in the correct direction, and made sure the date on each tab-label coincided with the dates on the test.

2. I went through and fixed all of the broken links and other broken images, changing the relative paths so that the pages would actually interconnect.

3. I added much more information to the end, so that all of the meets had the necessary formulas.

19 January 2010

One thing Jane did not mention, but I noticed when browsing the site, was that the banner-image on top looked exactly how I intended it to look on some pages, but was blurry and pixilated on others.

It seems the code for these two was different. For the large, blurry image, the incorrect picture was being accessed. It was the same image, only originally not a wide. It was stretched to fit the dimensions specified by the web page.

So, I simply changed the image file being uploaded to the correct one for all of the dysfunctional pages.