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Time Expired Popup RE-design. Jacqueline Krueger, Stanford University April 17, 2013. Current Design of Time Expired Popup. Description of behavior: Student sees a time expired popup that says their answers have been automatically submitted. Problem:
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Time Expired Popup RE-design Jacqueline Krueger, Stanford University April 17, 2013
Current Design of Time Expired Popup Description of behavior: Student sees a time expired popup that says their answers have been automatically submitted. Problem: Message is incorrect. Nothing gets submitted until student clicks OK on the time expired popup within 30 seconds after time is up. If they click OK after 30 seconds (although my testing indicate much less) they will see an unfriendly data discrepancy error. Essentially at the 30 second mark, a back-end process will automatically submit their answers for them so if they click submit, there will be data collision. What’s worse, any answers not saved on the last page prior to time’s up will be lost.
Current Design of 5-Minute Warning Popup 5-minute warning popup looks different than time expired popup. Would be nice if they both could look similar
Proposed Re-design of Time Expired Popup Description of behavior: When time is up, students will see a notification popup with progress indicator that says time is up and that their answers are being submitted. Students will not be able to work on the assignment once the notification pops up. The notification would automatically go away once the submission process is done and students would then see the submission confirmation page. Implementation details: The notification popup should display long enough for a student to read the message. Recommended display time: 5 seconds. If submission takes less than 5 seconds, student should still see notification popup. After 5 seconds, then they should see the submission confirmation screen.
Proposed Re-design of Time Expired Popup (cont’d) Implementation details cont’d: Progress indicator should probably be indeterminate since submission processing time will vary from one assessment to the next. Nice example below from Windows Dev Center NOTE: screenshots say “assignment” rather than “assessment” since Stanford renamed Tests & Quizzes locally to Assignments
Proposed Re-design of Time Expired Popup (cont’d) Once submission is done, student should see the submission confirmation screen. If student happens to navigate away to another browser tab/window and then come back to the assessment after time’s up and submission’s complete, they would see the same submission confirmation screen Text for Time Expired Popup Time is up! (bold, 1st line, center align) All of your answers are being submitted (2nd line, center align) Text for submission confirmation screen Time allowed for this assessment has expired. All of your answers have been automatically submitted.