Stage

Prompts

Results / Notes

Intro & Qualifiers

• Introduce yourself, but don’t try to explain the platform or tell them what to do

• Reiterate that this is not a test of their ability

• Reiterate that this is a very early field trial - nothing is final

• You have heard that you can bring volunteers to help you on voluntarily, and your board/principal has approved it - you have been told to go to this link "beta.voluntarily.nz"

• Brief them on teacher role - ask them to complete the following tasks step by step

  • Create account

  • Verify teacher status

  • Create an ITF activity

  • Accept a volunteer

  • Close activity - need a way to fake volunteer applications for test on beta

  • Provide feedback

• Initial trial with 50-60 students

• Concerns around scale (Do we try with the whole school, or one class at a time? Do we do 30 students to a volunteer per classroom instead and cycle them around? Up in the air atm)

• Have had speakers come in before

• Lots of careers options in terms of groups organising this

• Evaluating options for deployment

• ITF Trial 2nd april?

Begin Test

• Run test

  • Guide subject back if they stray too far off ie: youtube or off the site

  • If they ask you how to do something, ask them what they think

  • Two person op

    • One person watches and prompts subject for thoughts

    • Second person note takes and keeps time

• Invite staff functionality makes sense

• Need more information to guide them along signup process?

• Need to better communicate what Voluntarily can do for you - perhaps chuck them to the landing page for teachers first for invitations? Perhaps a signup code? Debatable

• Typos - grammatical stuff

• Probably needs to be a checklist - order of recommended actions ambiguous in the account successfully created page

• What are templates? - Teachers got confused by this

• Confusion around what is an activity - learning activity, setup activity, learning experience,

• First action user jumped to was contact volunteers

• Confusion around activities and events

• Learning dispositions?

• Missed the point about title being for volunteers during activity template instantiation

• What do you want from volunteers as an alternative title?

• Template is confusing for teachers - event template?

• Predominantly wording / copy issues

• What we recommend?

• Launch event?

• Contact number/email for support with a templated activity

• Previous examples?

• Testimonials from other teachers

• Past examples of events

• What students think as a testimonial
   

When it comes to platform usage, feels like teachers would be using it to call in volunteers to help them catch up -  Upskilling more teachers than students as most of the students already know how to use the tech