Interpretation

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From the responses that I received through the collected data, I believe that it would serve the best interest of the students and other members using Blackboard to create an efficient design of Portal. The re-design requirements would entail, direct links to other school related sites such as Wikispaces and Slate, while incorporating other social networking sites such as Facebook, (however this aspect was not seen as a great assest among many - not much emphasis will be placed to incorporate this application). Facebook can, also increase the student’s and professor's ability to gain direct feedback from other users on assignments and test, as well as other concerns throughout the course. More importantly however, most respondants were concern about introducing a fixed and limited maintenance time for the site, with this students will be aware of these updates and would know when the site would be unavailable to them during these brief times. Easy access to course material such as lectures will also be a feature of focus, as well as the application of methods to monitor and update a user's grades easily. The re-design will also allow students to organize their Blackboard profiles to however they see fit, as many students have unique ways of studying and completing assignments. This will be done through the introduction of specific customization tools such as online calendars as well as through tools to create different colors and fonts.