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The key challenge in designing a unified Studio Home experience is that each of these user types will have different levels of access and permissions, which will impact which and how many courses/libraries they see. For example, an admin may view and access all the courses in their organization or instance, while a course staff may only view and access all the courses on which they are a staff member. In its current state, there is no consideration given for the different needs that different users may have in viewing and accessing courses (for example, for users with long lists of courses, there are no navigation or search tools to manage content).
What is the secondary purpose of Studio Home?
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Create a new course
Create a new library
Create a course run or re-run.
As Studio evolves, we anticipate that additional secondary purposes may emerge. For example, Studio Home will need serve as a “jumping off point” to our new Tagging Taxonomy Center. As well, it may become the new “jumping off point” we need for accessing more organization Administration functions like managing roles and permissions, configuring org-level LTI installations, etc.
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Future state: Navigate to global configuration functions (admin panel, taxonomy panel, etc)
These workflows create significant challenges:
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To mitigate these challenges, Studio Home should be redesigned as a map and compass to help users navigate into the various “create a new something” pathways, rather than being the place to accomplish the creation of anything new.
As Studio evolves, we anticipate that additional secondary purposes may emerge. For example, Studio Home will need serve as a “jumping off point” to our new Tagging Taxonomy Center. As well, it may become the new “jumping off point” we need for accessing more organization Administration functions like managing roles and permissions, configuring org-level LTI installations, etc.
Reframing Studio Home this way opens the door for us to thoughtfully consider what each of these “create something new” pathways should look like, and do the appropriate discovery work to build the required specs. It also positions us to better support new administrative features over time.
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The primary function of Studio Home–a quick, intuitive way for all users to view and access everything they have permissions to view and access–should be designed to allow users with varying levels of permissions to have a consistent experience in viewing/accessing courses and libraries, regardless of which permissions they have.
There are many enhancements we can make to improve the “view and access” use cases, such as searching for courses/libraries, filtering for courses, etc (and many more we will create in the user story writing process.)
The secondary function of Studio Home–to create something new–should be redesigned such that Studio Home is simply the jumping off point into each distinct “create something new” workflows (create a new course, create a new library, create a course re-run).
The workflows to “create something new” could be wysiwsg solutions and potentially more interactive. (Would you like to create something new? —> What would you like to create? etc etc)
Areas that need further product
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discovery:
Collaborate with the Roles and Permissions project to define the ideal set of user roles (and subsequent permissions) we want as a platform.
Product Discovery and full Product Specs for a new Administration Dashboard to manage roles and permissions.
Investigate what it would take from a technical perspective to disentangle the workflow to create a new course from the Studio Home page. Just a new MFE for “create a new course”, “create a new library”, etc?
Product Discovery and full Product Specs for a re-imagined Course Creation workflow.
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