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- Student: MIT student, general experience with Internet sites, most of them have used Facebook#* Age: 17~24
- Gender: any
- Culture: college students, specifically, MIT students
- Language: English
- Education: college
- Physical limitation: not considered in this design
- Computer experience: vast
- Motivation: motivated, as the student registered for the course
- Attitude: mixed; some students are really excited about the class, most just want to get the homework over with
- Domain experience: ~12 years of experience writing and submitting homework, >=1 year of experiencing using online homework submission system
- Application experience: generally familiar with web applications and the concept of uploading files, many have not used online submission systems
- Work environment and other social contexts: college environment
- Relationships and communication patterns: college environment, mostly communicate digitally
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- Teaching Assistant: MIT grad student, OK to have a training session, learnability somewhat less important than efficiency (Optionally separate TAs and graders)
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- Age: 21+
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- for TAs, 19+ for graders
- Gender: any
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- Culture: graduate students, specifically, MIT graduates
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- Language: English
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- Education: college
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- graduates for TAs, undergrads or graduates for graders
o Physical limitation: no
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- Account Creation## Goal: Create and configure an account to get access to the user-specific features of the website## Precondition: have email address, the course number of the class to join, (optionally MIT email / MIT ID number)## Subtasks:### Fill basic information form, including email address, password, (optionally MIT email / MIT ID number)### Validate the account by clicking on a link in an email### Register for the class or be marked as an instructor by an administrator### Optionally provide details for the public profile (nickname...)## Frequency of use: first time of use
- Exceptions: enter wrong email address, wrong class number, wrong name
- Submitting homework, answering surveys (how many hours, etc.), and checking your grades## Goal: Have your problem set be evaluated by the TAs## Precondition:### The user must have an account### Homework should have been assigned by an instructor## Subtasks:### Upload your problem set as a PDF file### Optionally answer a survey### Check your problem set and quiz grades## Frequency of use: weekly## Exceptions: submit the homework not on time, wrong format of documents, forgot to attach documents before submitting.
- Creating/Editing problem sets## Goal: Defining the files that students must upload for a problem set, and the grading structure.## Precondition:### The user must have registered as a TA### A designed problem set.## Subtasks:### Creating a new problem set or editing an old one### Defining files to be submitted for the problem set### Defining what gets graded and the grading scale### Marking the problem set available for submission and set a deadline### Optionally: decide late policy, enable extension
- Frequency of use: weekly
- Exceptions: creating a wrong pset
- Grading problem sets## Goal: Having a grade for each of the students’ submissions## Precondition:### The instructor needs to have a problem set prepared### Students must have submitted solutions## Subtasks:### Printing out student solutions for grading### Grading### Inputting the problem set grades for distribution to the students## Frequency of use: weekly## Exceptions: entering a wrong grade, missing grades
Domain analysis