Itslearning.com iPhone Application
Posted by Adrian Sæther-larsen on May 25, 2009 10:40 AM PDT
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iPhone is expanding widely, and with the amount of iPhone users just in Norway, it's safe to say that an Itslearning application would increase usabilty and visiting numbers. As I am a student myself, I would increase my visiting to my schools profile to catch up with the latest news available. Not just referring to general news about the school itself, but to see subjects and read information from there would be most likely a huge hit.
By going directly to itslearning.com with Safari on iPhone, the site is not functional at all and the Java experience itself is to heavy and the resolution used on the site is not watchable at all on the phone.
Several teachers on my school has an iPhone themself, and when I told them my idea they were excited and they saw that this is a potential to reach out to more students and teachers.
The SDK provided with the iPhone OS is easy if you set your mind to it, and a ITL portal on iPhone would not take that many hours. Services provided with the application could be:
- Read news
- Read subjects and see paper dues
- Calendar
- Messages
Doing task and delivering papers is a whole other case, and not needed, but when Gilde (Norwegian meat processing company) can make an application to give out recipies, ITL could make a portal for simple viewing.
A wish a good amount of people would like to see come to life.
If you start taking a survey and chooses 'Cancel' before finishing the survey, you get this message: "Do you really want to cancel? You will not be able to continue answering from where you left off later."
It is our experience that users often misunderstand the message and think, that they will not be allowed to take the survey later. Due to this misunderstanding they conclude, that the right thing to do is to click 'Finish' instead of 'Cancel' to get out of the survey. And doing so they get the situation they try to avoid: they are not allowed to finish answering the questions in the survey.
We suggest that the message is changed by adding something like this: "But you can start the survey from the beginning again”.