Assignments are at the core of the AltSchool platform — they are used to document & assess student work. I worked on the two main surfaces students use interact with assignments — their Playlist, and their Portfolio — as well as on the overall system architecture of assignments as they pass through various states: draft, assigned, submitted, assessed, complete.

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The amount of learning objectives teachers deal with can be daunting. I redesigned our tagging and assessment flows to simplify the process of navigating through a large set of learning objectives & tagging the desired ones. It was important as well for the assessment experience to feel like an extension of the tagging experience.

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An important aspect of the modern learning experience is documenting student work and behavior. Classroom Capture is an app for teachers to document (and share) learning moments without disrupting the classroom experience. All photos are immediately sync’d to the AltSchool platform so they can pickup the workflow later in the day either on their laptop or phone.

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Younger learners tend to interact with the world in a more concrete & tactile way. I worked with two Lower Elementary educators on a way to engage young learners with the AltSchool Social-Emotional Learning Habits. After prototyping some ideas our final output was Habit Cards, as well as educational practices to scaffold their use in the classroom. (illustrations: Natalie Fitzgerald)

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I worked on creating a global navigation system that we could apply across our Educator, Student, and Parent products. Educators had a unique need of being able to switch between individual students, as well as different group views, quite fluidly, which I solved with a student search/selector in the top level nav. I also worked on making all the sub-navigation/toolbars more consistent across the app.

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During my time at AltSchool I was responsibile for design infrastructure, and usually spent around 20% of each week working on it. My main effort within design infrastructure was the development and maintenance of our UI design pattern library. As the platform really started to grow around my second year at AltSchool I setup a weekly meeting with the frontend team to discuss everything from perceived performance, responsiveness, maintainability of UI patterns, and more.

The complexity in designing a button & color system was that the product's (name and) main action was "Keep", however we wanted to shift the primary action to “Add to Cart”. The green color had also previously been associated with the Keep action.