Week 15 and Finals Week: Wrapping Up the Best Practices Article and the Client Project

We’re almost there — the end of the semester is less than two weeks away! It’s been a great semester, and I’m excited to read your articles and see your finished client sites. At this point, you should be polishing your article based on the feedback you received in class, and your team should be conducting usability tests on your client site.

Our last two class sessions will help you revise your site based on those tests. Here’s a brief preview:

• Your Best Practices Article is due before you come to class on Monday. Please follow the guidelines on the assignment sheet for submitting your article. During class, we will consider how to apply the results of your usability tests as you revise your site. Before you come to class, please review at least two of the sample usability reports linked on the Resources page and ensure that all of your team’s usability test results are collected in a single location (e.g., a shared Google Drive folder). The remainder of class will be dedicated workshop time for your team.
• On Wednesday, we will conduct a critique session for the Client Project, then I will meet briefly with each team to help you determine what steps you need to take before you submit your completed project. I won’t be able to spend a lot of time with each team during class, so if you need serious technical help with your site, please come see me during office hours on Tuesday (1–4) or Wednesday (9–12).

Because you’ll be submitting your final projects online, we will not hold a formal final exam. However, please remember the deadlines for the last few taks you need to complete:

• Your Client Project is due no later than May 14 at 10:05 a.m. (our university-assigned time slot for the final exam). Please submit your team’s memo of transmittal any additional materials (usability results, wireframes, screenshots of early drafts, client feedback, or anything else listed in your team’s MOU) by placing them in your team’s shared Google Drive folder (which should also be shared with me).
• Your individually completed “Team Evaluation Form,” which I will distribute during Week 15, should be slid under my office door (Shanks 427) or placed in my department mailbox (#8, located next to Shanks 323) before the Unit #4 due date.
• Last but not least, if you have not completed the Student Perceptions of Teaching (SPOT) questionnaire for this course, please do so no later than May 8. I’d like to know what you think went well this semester, but I’m especially interested in receiving your feedback about how I could improve this course next time I teach it.

As always, if you have any questions about these items, please drop me a line. I’ll try to be in my office as much as I can for the next week, so let me know if you need to come by during a time other than my “official” office hours. Good luck wrapping things up!