The Library Block - UI needs

Owned by Jenna Makowski
Last updated: Feb 02, 2024
3 min read

User Stories

As a content author/instructional designer:

 

  • I want to use content from my Library in a course and I want to pull content from my Library into my course outline, without having to navigate away from my course.

  • I need a quick way to find the content I need and want to use from my Library.

  • I might just want to use a single text, video or problem. (“one and done”)

  • I might also want to choose a problem bank, or a set of questions with a set of parameters (eg, give me all the questions that are tagged with “accounting” and “easy”) and configure a set of randomization parameters so that each learner receives a different subset of questions from the bank during their exam.

 

Limitations of the current Library Block

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • The current UI is built around the limitation that each library is only intended to hold 1 small pool of content for the randomized content use. This translates into unusable UI decisions, such as providing a list of all the components in the Library for a user to manually choose, which will become cumbersome and unrealistic when we redesign libraries to hold hundreds or thousands of components.

  • The dials to choose either a set of content to randomize or a single component do not convey the workflow in a logical or intuitive way, and the way the wording is confusing

  • There’s still a json field in there.

  • There are too many steps. Why does a user have to navigate out of the library block and then back into it, in order to select which problems to include in their randomized pool?

 

Elements needed in a new UX/UI:

 

  • We need to rethink the entire UX for this process. The steps of the workflow might be as follows:

    • User chooses a library which contains the content they need.

    • User is presented with options to search within the Library to find the specific content they need. (Do we simply overlay the search experience that will already exist in Libraries?)

    • User can select a single component to use. Maybe they want to get to the component via a general keyword search, a search by tag, or by drilling down into a collection/playlist. Then they simply choose the component. If it’s a “one and done” use case, that’s it.

    • User can select a problem blank OR a set of problems by tag (give me all the problems with the tags “accounting” and “easy”) and have a toggle/button to “randomize” it. Upon selecting the toggle/button, it will trigger a configuration workflow, where the user will need to set parameters: How many questions from the bank does each student need to see? Will students have the option to “reset”?