Integrating a third-party tool to push ahead of competitors.
Macmillan Learning considered a third-party tool for its assessment product to help students graph precalculus questions. Openfield evaluated the usability of the tool compared to competitors and designed solutions to make the integration as seamless as possible.
Highlights
Informed business decisions around adoption
Collected standardized usability metrics (SEQ and SUS) across multiple graphing tools to measure how our integration compared.
Understood instructor needs
Interviewed instructors to understand whether the proposed integration met their pedagogical standards.
Evaluated and optimized with students
Identified and resolved usability issues by testing a functional prototype of the integrated graphing tool with precalculus students.
Results
90th Percentile
Achieve SEQ Score compared to competitors in the 46th percentile