Career/College Quizzes Improvements for Genescope #35
Description
Make Career and College Quizzes more interactable for first time users
Comments/suggestions from Dereck: The career and college quizzes are only interesting or impactful to users who are already familiar with biotechnology and/or our website in general.
Checkpoint 1 - May 22
Goal:
The first thing we need to prioritize is making our website more interactable for a first-time user. For the career and college quizzes, it is more directed towards an audience that is already familiar with biotechnology and not very user friendly. To combat this, I plan to add a pop-up that gives the user an overview of some of the basics of biotechnology so that they will be more prepared to traverse our website.
- Add a pop-up with information about basics of biotechnology
- Embed educational videos that a first-time user may find helpful
- Perhaps add a glossary section for biotechnology vocabulary
- Style it to make it blend in with the rest of the website
- Add a suggestions section that introduces the user to other educational websites
- Add buttons that take user to other websites
- By: May 17th
Checkpoint 2 - May 29
Goal:
Because these features aren't exactly games and rather quizzes, it is not super interactive and fun to the user. To resolve this issue, I plan to implement a matching game that could match careers to their description. One of Derek's main suggestions about our website is to make it cater towards first-time users new to biotechnology by introducing them to biotechnology concepts before letting them explore our features. With a matching game, the user would be able to get some context about biotechnology before taking a quiz.
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Let the matching game be the first thing the user sees when they click on the webpage
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Find or create a database with all the necessary terms for biotechnology so the terms and definitions are randomized each time
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Track the time it takes for the user to finish the game and present it on a "Game Over" screen
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Allow users to replay the game to beat their previous time
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When the user finishes the game, add a screen that allows the reader then to take the career and/or college quiz
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By: May 24
Timeline
| Date | Task |
|---|---|
| May 14-15 | Draft an outline that would be shown on the pop-up with basic information on biotechnology |
| May 15-17 | Add any finishing touches (adding video links, glossary, etc.) |
| May 18 | Add and ensure that buttons and links on the pop-up functions properly |
| May 19-20 | Find or create a dataset to use for the questions and descriptions |
| May 21-24 | Create an actually functionable table on Javascript and build it on HTML |
| May 24-26 | Final check to see if everything works as its supposed to |
| June 2 | Final project should be completed |
| June 5 | Present at N@M |
| June 9 | LinkedIn and other reviews |
Checklist
- Draft outline that has basics on biotechnology
- Find educational videos, websites, and vocabulary to implement in the pop-up
- Find or make a dataset that can be implemented into the matching term and description game
- Create the matching game by making sure that it is the first thing that appears when the user clicks on the page and that it is structured and blends in with the rest of the website
- Figure out how to create a timer on the matching game
- Add links to the "Game Over" screen that allows the user to go to the career quiz and college quiz