Prototype Of Lg
Important note:
I will be using LG as a project name, however it does not imply in any way any association with the Korean electronics giant. I want everybody to be clear because some had inquired about it. NO RELATION WITH LG ELECTRONICS.
LG in it’s simplest form is just a quiz-like interactive learning software. LG asks a question and user responses. The asking and responses are done in a number of possible formats: text, graphical, video, voice or any combination of those. The type of response expected in any particular question is determined beforehand (in fact in real-life, way-before, at the time the question was created).
If the expected response is voice LG will automatically turn itself into recording mode (at the end of the question), to capture user’s response, for a specified and limited amount of time.
THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT IS ONLY LIMITED TO VOICE RESPONSE. However, you are welcome to submit more if you are so inclined or in trying to establish continuation or any other like reason.
THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT INCLUDES A SIMPLIFIED TEACHER GRADING INTERFACE with the follwing requirements:
The main screen of (the simplified) Teacher Grading (TG) submodule is a list of student’s names, email address, problem-set filename, date/time-taken. When the user clicks on one of the entries listed, the set of question and answer is displayed; one set of problem consists of 10 questions/answers. For a voice question and answer the screen displays three play-buttons. The 1st-button is for playing the question, the 2nd-button for listening to the recorded answer and the 3rd-button for listening to the correct answer (as a reference or sometimes called the ‘key’). And then there’s another set of buttons, grading buttons. For the purpose of this project the grading buttons are simplified into two buttons only, RIGHT or WRONG.
After all the answers in a set is graded (by way of clicking either RIGHT or WRONG button), the grade-report is sent to the email address of the student. The email will say something like, “Thank you for participating in LG e-learning”, “Your score is 60 out of 100″.
In relation to my other project (LG e-learning website), which is actually the same project, I will simplify my requirements so that it will only include limited functionality and serve as a demo-version/prototype. It will serve to demonstrate the following aspects:
- It displays exercise questions and records student’s answer in an efficient manner. No noticeable delay in between. i.e. At the end of a question the program will automatically turn to recording mode and instantly ready to record the student’s answer. It would help to have an “ON AIR” red-light that comes on the screen to signal that recording has started. At the end of the time limit the “ON AIR” light goes out and recording is stopped.
- How well you design the interface. Rule of thumb, simple is better. So a 7-or-67-year-old can get right on it with little difficulties.
- Ample space between items, big buttons for use with touch screen interface.
- Use of color to give a nice consistent theme throughout the design. At the same time use it sparingly, or in other words, only when you want to signify something or draw attention to a certain item/part of the screen. Remember, it’s education, contemporary/contrast (as opposed to classic/old, subdued, dimmed), clean straightforward letters, bright (white background is ALMOST a must).
- How well you utilize the screen real-estate especially when it comes to the teacher grading screen. As mentioned in the other project’s post, the teacher screen must be very efficent and highly functional to accomodate the workload of grading a vast number of students’ exercise. As this is just a prototype you can just mock-up some icons and explain what they do (better yet, self-explanatory) without having to program anything into it. However (YOU MUST PROGRAM) the listening to students’ answers and be able to assign a right/wrong tag to it MUST BE DONE and be fully working. Again here, I will see how fast your code is responding as such that, human-operator is the limiting factor as far as speed is concerned.
- Anything else beyond the above-mentioned will be left upon your discretion as well as creativity as seasoned programmers tend to incorporate their signature into and take pride in their work. I trust that you will deliver above and beyond expectation. Happy Bidding FOR PROTOYPE ONLY.
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