When I created the original design of the evaluator’s workspace for grading a student’s task submission, I decided on using a carousel component to keep the space focused, concise, and clean. One rubric aspect at a time, showing the grading levels, input area for comments back to the students, and a view of previous evaluator comments. The design was well received by the evaluation team and implementation went forward. However, once the evaluators got working with this presentation of the workspace, they quickly found some usability issues, especially on the tasks that had a lot of aspects. Though a lengthy list of aspects was not common, they made for a very challenging experience when trying to get back to a specific aspect.
March 2018