W-Gening the NYC School System February 21
Wireless Generation is working for the NYCDOE on a project called ARIS, for “Assessment Reporting and Innovation System”. ARIS will be a web-based system for NYC teachers, who’ll receive logins enabling access to information about their students, such as attendance data and scores from various state and city assessments. ARIS will automatically pull data out of DOE systems like ATS and HSST (with daily uploads to keep ARIS current). ARIS will have other features, such as tools to locate instructional content, as well as mechanisms for sharing instructional content.
They are looking for NYC K-12 teachers to come into their office for 30 minutes this week to provide feedback on this new system. In exchange, they’ll give out $25 gift cards (likely for Amazon) to all participants. Here’s what they’re working on and what they might ask you if you decide to help them out:
We are currently working on the design of class roster views–when you are looking at a list of students in your class, what views are
available, and on each view, what information do we display about each student, how do we organize the information, and what sort of
interactions (e.g. sorting) do we enable? We are fairly far along in this process, and have mockups that show what various screens would
look like. These have been developed with input from ARIS “user reps” (e.g., teachers and principals), but we would like to get feedback
from a larger number of teachers before we finalize the designs. We will be showing you these screen mockups, and asking you questions
about the data that will let us see whether the displays convey the information clearly. We will also be asking you whether all the
information we are displaying is relevant to you, and whether there is anything we are missing. We are also working on the design of a “student profile” page, which will display information about a single student, and we may also ask you to look at mockups of this page.
If you are interested, contact Brianna, bklemm@wgen.net, and provide your contact information and the days and times you are free to go to their office in DUMBO.