Ponycody Exam Answer Sheets

Problem

Checking the answer is a frustrating process. Students are confused about their wrong answers and correct answers in the answer sheet.

Solution

We offer a side by side correct answer checking sheets on a web-based learning management system. Students can certainly understand the right answers on an answer sheet.

Outcome

The feature has been developed by our engineer.

Overview

Role: Product Designer    Timeline: 6 weeks (Jan - Feb 2021)    Tools: Figma, Sketch, Zeplin

Ponycody school is an online learning management system. We help schools to manage course material and teachers&students. Our product helps schools to hold and manage their exams online. Students taking online exams is an essential part of our system.

I designed a quick exam feature for teachers to upload pdf version exam questions and create the exam answer sheet. This feature saved a lot of time typing the questions into the system.

However, we are still facing some issues on the exam digitalization road.  After grading the exam, students have some issues with reviewing the wrong answers.

Interviews

We interviewed elementary school teachers

"Checking exam grades and the correct answer is a frustrating process for most kids."


-Elementary school teacher

Flow

Problem

🙅

Students are confused about their wrong and correct answers in the answer sheet.

Pain points?

We decide to use an answer sheet to let students answer the questions.

Transparency

Display the right/wrong answers of a multiple-answer question

Status

Students are confused about option status in an answer sheets

Exploration

Quick Exam Upload
Our limitation

PDF version exam cannot split to question by question.

The student has to compare the exam document with the answer.

There is no question explanation in this type of exam.

Option Status Explorations
During exam

Enable

Disable

After graded

Correct answer

Wrong answer

Answer sheet in real world

Inspirations from traditional answer sheets

Use metaphor
Lower learning curve
Question types
Single answer

Mark the wrong answer and correct answer

Multiple answers

Part of student's answer are correct

Color issue "Conflict "
Stakeholders

Want to use green color for the correct answer

Design team

We already have blue color for selected,  black to click, grey for disabling, red for the wrong answer.  We don't want to involve too many colors to add learning costs for students.

Solutions

How to display correct answer?

1.

Pro:
Clear and easy to check the correct answer
Con:
Not valid for multiple answer

Correct answers are mixed with part of student's right answers.

2.

Pro:
Easy to compare for both multiple and single answers
Con:
Take more clicks to check the answer

3.

Pro:
Easy to check the answers
Con:
Not intuitive with another platform

Not working on a Touch screen(iPad), Base on our research, students use iPad for the exam as while.

4. Final decision

Pros:
Scalable for multiple use cases

Scalable for both single answer and multiple answers. Students don't need any extra clicks to check the answer.

Cons:
May take more pages for display the answers.

Answer sheet design

How was our client's feedback

“This feature saved us, and we don't have to worry about creating exams question by question. Now it just uploads and picks the answers.”

Coding teacher (Great learning center)
“We can now focus more on teaching other than grading and deal with exam papers.”

Coding teacher (MABABA)