Requirements Elicitation for New Classrooms

Project Overview

This project focuses on eliciting requirements for a new communication feature within classrooms, addressing challenges in student-teacher interactions and ensuring accessibility across various grade levels.

Key Questions Explored

• Biggest Challenges: What communication difficulties do students and teachers face?
• Goals: What does the new communication feature need to accomplish?
• Usage: How many people use the system daily, and how many need simultaneous access?
• Communication Needs: What issues do students and teachers commonly need to discuss?
• Response Time: How quickly should teachers respond to students?
• Grade-Level Access: Should all grade levels have access to the feature?

Communication Features Inside the Portal

The elicitation process explored different modes of communication that could be integrated into the classroom portal:

• Discussion Boards
• Email
• Chat
• Forums
• Announcements
• Video Communication

Communication Features Outside the Portal

To ensure flexibility, the project also considered external communication channels:

• Social Media
• Phone Communication
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR) for automated answers
• Text Messaging

Next Steps

Based on stakeholder input, the next phase involves defining technical specifications, developing a prototype, and conducting user testing to refine the communication feature before implementation.