Final Presentation

Alhamdulillah, finally we manage to finish our full version of the courseware. Today we have presented our courseware to be evaluated by peers and Prof Jamal. we get positive feedback from them, and that's make us quite happy and relieved. We take every comments and suggestion as the point to improve our courseware in the future. Now we have to prepare for the final report. As usual, our group has discussed and divide the task to each group members to be fullfilled on estimated time.

Screenshots of final courseware English Form 2 - What People Do

Montage, Main Menu, Song, Conversation

 

  

Let's Spell

 

 

 

 

 

Let's Do

 

 

Let's WH

 

 

Let's Write

 

Let's Guess

 

Exit

Courseware Evaluation and Improvement: What People Do

From the feedback that we get on previous presentation comments and after the formative evaluation of the courseware, these are some improvements that made by our group before final presentation..

	Weakness found from formative/peer evaluation	Changes have been made
1.	Template is not so standard for every main scenes for activities	Standardize template for every main scenes activities
2.	Inappropriate background colour with text colour.	Made text colour in contrast with background colour.
3.	Sound system is not functioning well.	Fixed the sound system and add a mute button in order for user to control their learning.
4.	Exit the system when exit button is clicked.	Ask conformation to leave the system after the exit button is clicked.
5.	Confusion for user in the 'Let's Write' activity.	A divider for each words are provided to avoid confusion.

Courseware Testing and Evaluation

Testing and Evaluating your own multimedia courseware can help you spot problems and make

appropriate changes.

It helps to have somebody else evaluate and test the courseware for you, but you can probably

gain some benefit even if you go through the procedure yourself.

Courseware Evaluation vs Courseware Testing

Testing implies matching a prescribed set of quantifiable criteria against performance to find

errors. For example, to check :

• if the design ideas which are applied are working;
• if the message is communicated perfectly or not;
• If multimedia and interactive elements work properly.
• everything that is used in the presentation is
• relevant to the intended audience, if not then what part is to be changed;

Evaluation is wider in that it is not looking for specific errors but improvements to the design during development or when the program is finished. The things to notice are :

• what is working well; what are the strengths of the
• project; what are clients saying about it;
• what do they like or dislike; is the objective being accomplished;
• if the entire project is to be done over again, what would be done differently.

11th Week: Visual # Pleasing to the eyes or more?

Before taking this course, my perception towards visual functions are that pleasing to the eyes, have elements such as balance and unity and some some sorts of arts. However, the visual function is more than important in designing the courseware. 

The visual interface gives the impression of the whole courseware and motivates learners to use the courseware. Eventhough  we design the courseware aligned to the learning theories and have good information and interaction design, without good visual design the courseware will not be effective to meet the objectives and specifications.

And I believe that the most important consideration in choosing visual interface / theme of the courseware is the need of audience. The visual must match the criteria of the audience. Example; kids, teen, adults etc.

Critical Task in Visual Design

• Define the visual theme and style
• Design a system of screen layouts
• Create the structural elements of each screen (background, windows, etc)
• Create the control elements
• Integrate the media elements
• Create PROTOTYPE Screens