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Application user workflow
The workplace learning application (WPL) is designed to support the learning process of learners in the workplace (e.g. internships). It provides an easy way to register learning activities and learning moments for later reference, while stimulating reflection. Furthermore, it provides data-driven analysis and feedforward to enhance and optimize your workplace learning experience.
Users sign up through the register form or through their Canvas learning environment. In both cases they need to select which education programme they are following, either an Acting or Producing programme. The distinction between these two programme types needs to be made because each functions differently within this application.
When registered the user needs to create a workplace and workplace learning period. These two contain the details of the internship of the user. For example, the duration and at which company or institute. Here the user also needs to select the cohort he or she belongs to.
Once this is set up the user can make use of the main functionality of the application: registering learning moments, also referred to as activities. The interface and input fields differ for Acting and Producing users. For example, Producing users select the duration of their activity. Acting users on the other hand, have the possibility to add a reflection to the activity.
It is recommended to create test accounts on your local installation for both types to get acquainted with the differences that exist
The created activities can be seen in a filterable table view on the progress page. This details the most important information of each registered activity. If necessary, it is possible to edit an activity or remove it completely. On the same page it is possible to export the registered activities to a formatted Word document. Users with an Acting programme will have a more detailed export, whereas the Producing version is a basic document without any special formatting.
During the internship the registered activities create the ability to help the user with useful tips and insight into statistics. If a user finds a tip useful, they can like it. These are found on the analysis page. The tips that can be shown are created by users with teacher rights. They can create tips that have one or more statistics coupled to them. Each statistic has a threshold, often a certain percentage, that needs to be reached in order to become "active". If all coupled statistics are active the tip is shown to the user. The values of the calculated statistics can be used in the tip's text to optimally help the user.
There is a small but functional calendar available to students on the Deadline page.
It is possible for the user to update several details of their accounts:
- First and last name
- E-mail address
- Password
- Preferred application language
This is all done on the Profile page. Here the created workplace learning periods are also visible in a table view, including some detailed information of the currently active internship.
The application knows of three types of users. A student, a teacher, and an admin. The Student has access to the functionality described above, whereas teachers and admins have extra functionality.
Admins can create tips. Tips consist of one or more coupled statistics, each with a threshold that needs to be reached to become active. Furthermore, tips can also have moments coupled. This means that whenever a certain moment in an internship is reached, for example halfway (45% to 55%) a tip can become activated for the user. Tips can be activated for any cohort.
Admins can access the programmes page. In here it is possible to manage each programme and the cohorts of the programme. For example, it is possible to disable a cohort for new sign ups. Cohorts can also have default activity values created. For example, an activity can have a resource person. Some resource persons are used in every internship, so they are created here as a default value. This helps in the analysis of the teachers and admins.
For the purpose of analysis admins can create analyses on the analysis dashboard. The analyses can be created with raw SQL queries or through a builder. The results of the analyses are shown with graphs.
Admin users can visit the admin page. Here it is possible to see the basic details of every registered user. It is possible to filter on several properties. When a user is selected it is possible to view the workplace learning periods and delete them if necessary. This is mostly used to manage test accounts and their generated data on the live platform.