I've spent some time listening to feedback from staff about Workshop -- there's so much 'stuff' there that it needs a lot of decluttering. I'm posting what I've done so far, and invite feedback or ideas on what you may have done or thought about doing.
Phase 1: Setup
I hate to have done this, but we decided to hide the details of each phase. Though it contains important information and useful, we've decided to hide it entirely so the students just see the phase they are on and can rely on the existing "Description" area to get all the info they need to start (though it doesn't remain there as the phases progress). We also debated showing all 4 dates (both open and both close) but decided the 2 "close" is the more important dates to show.
Phase 2: Submission
We moved the "Add Submission" button down below the Your Submission section to help better connect the two things.
Once a student submits, their name was clickable - we removed that hyperlink so the only important link is a link back to their submission. We're debating if we want to break the links for the two toggle sections...
Phase 3: Assessment
Here's where I got overwhelmed and not sure of the best approach. By default, there are 8 different links a student can click on when the Assessment phase begins. My goal is to only have 2 clickable links.
- So far, I have removed the 2 links for the student's "Name" in the image below.
- 3 links are actually Toggles. My plan is to make the Toggles black, hide the icon, and give it a pointer-event of "None" so they cannot close it, I just don't know if that will make issues with keyboard navigation. Then that would leave 3 more links - the submission file name, the assigned assessment file name, and the Assess button.
- My next though is to guide the student to that Assess button by breaking the link to the assigned assignment file name, but I don't know what the difference is between the file title and the button. My guess is after they provide their assessment, maybe that file name link is their only way back to see their the assessment they provided.
Interested in thoughts or if you have done anything similar you wish to share.
Thanks,