About This Announcement:

This announcement for Week 12 is establishing a teaching presence.

It is representative of the announcements I choose to post at the start of each week (I have them appear on Sunday mornings).

This one provides students with their usual reminders but also goes an extra step considering they have a large project on the horizon. This announcement tells them where they should be in the development of that project and gives them some additional information, the images of strong previous student projects.

The office hours are also posted and highlighted as a way to encourage students to use them and ask questions at this point in the project development.

Welcome to Week 12!

Week 11 Review

Last week your team focused on planning for your usability test. You should all now have a plan for moving forward.

Week 12 Preview

Overview:

There are so many kinds of reports! They vary in formality and length. They can provide information, analysis, recommendations, or any combination thereof. But there are some commonalities across reports, and then we as communicators need to decide how to adapt those commonalities for our specific audience, purpose, and context.

This week, we focus on the purpose, structure, and content specific to recommendation reports. Your team should also finalize its usability testing protocol based on feedback from your peers and/or instructor. Then begin running the official tests to collect data.

Where your team should be:

You'll notice there's no discussion board this week. That's to provide you and your team time to begin testing.

Your team should:

Identify test subjects
Contact test subjects
Set up times for testing
Communicate progress with your team
Start the testing process, if possible

Here is a checklist to help your team begin your document: Checklist - Recommendation Report on Usability Study.docx

Below are a few images from a student submission. Note the use of the executive summary, data visualization, and additional images and subheadings in the list of recommendations.

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Week 12 Checklist

Date	Tasks and Deliverables
ASAP	Read (Text) Chapter 18: "Writing Recommendation Reports" Read (Canvas) Recommendation Report Assignment Information (Review) Week 12 Overview and Checklist Study Page: Recommendation Reports
Tuesday, DATE Office Hours	Office Hours 10:00 am - 11:00 am and 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm In Ross 000 or Online (email if you would like to set up an online time) This time doesn't work for you? Email and we can set up something else! teacher@iastate.edu
Wednesday, DATE, 11:59 pm	DUE: Chapter 18 Quiz
Thursday, DATE Office Hours	10:00 am - 11:00 am and 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm In Ross 000 or Online (email if you would like to set up an online time) This time doesn't work for you? Email and we can set up something else! teacher@iastate.edu