1912 - Hiruharama School

Owned by Walter Lim
Last updated: 17-12-2019
3 min read

On boarding + Event creation –schools 9-19th of December dependent so schools availability



Project

ITF and Voluntarily - On boarding + Event creation

Testing Date/s

December 9-17th

Team

 Walter, Margaret, Andrea and Sam G

Requirements

Success Metrics

  • Time taken to complete each task

  • # Tasks completed



Context

It is still early days for the platform and although a lot of the functionality will be in place, there is still a lot of UX and UI work that needs to be done. Explaining this to the trial schools will be crucial for gaining there understanding and buy in.



Notes

School details Page / School Onboarding

  • Wrote the description in maori

    • Then followed up in english - new line on each phrase for maori used

    • Total maori immersion school

    • Newline behavior might be interesting to design for if we use textline clamp in profile description

 

Currently dont access a lot of services as they are rural

At profile completion she got excited at possibilities - wondering about how to use it to action propjects and programmes

Does this make the case for how to run things at schools to the teachers?

Sees it as a simple 1 - 2 - 3 step process

 

Sees this platform being more student driven - with the teacher performing as a facilitator

  • Would consult with children first before anything else 

 

 

Before event creation / Event template page

 

  • First thing she noticed was the photos as opposed to the title

  • Missed tabs

  • Missed action button initially

  • Coming at it from a student-led mentality

  • Took a long time to notice the run event button -

  • Clicked on youtube link before anything else

 

  • Modified the event title to include te reo maori as a title

  • Understood event template / concept of putting it into the system

  • Modified description to include te reo maori

 

  • Would use photo of their kids for event photo

  • Would get ideas from staff and students before filling in specific skills section

  • Understood tags

  • Save functionality?

 

After event creation / event template used to create an event

 

Invite friends and family

  • Expected some way to see some form of advert that they could share

  • Newsletter, Facebook, Messenger, Radio expected

 

Spreading the word

  • 125 year anniversary next year

  • Ring locals or to face to face updates

  • Use radio

  • Elders would only find out via radio / face to face

  • Social media for immediate whanau

  • Most parents are on facebook

  • Messenger for parents

  • Principal doesnt have Facebook, but they communicate with 90% of parents through facebook messenger

 

Communicating it throughout the school

  • Would tell rest of staff at the team meeting

  • Google drive

  • Google school

  • Would delegate running it to a staff member

 

 

 

Principal perspective

Reciprocating the volunteer effort by providing the volunteers an experience as well

Would only do yr 5 6 7

Or trial year 7 8 only

Once they have set a date - ring the marae and confirm if they wanted to use the marae as a venue

To set date, they would pull out year planner and look for free slots - weather as well

-Interesting that she used a paper planner as opposed to google calendar

Look at learning outcomes for each term

 

Hook in to learning outcomes set for the term, or do it at the start/end of the term as a special day unrelate to learning outcomes for the term

 

Principal leadership advisor and mentor

Paper event planner

 

Cultural competency

  • what should volunteers know? No expectation from principal - just let them know there will be a welcoming ceremony

  • If whole school at marae then yes - full powhiri

  • If just a classroom might just be a whakatau - mihi