Samsung Application-Lucas Isaza

Concept Submission

Student Name: Lucas Isaza 08/07/2014hDate:

1 Samsung Mobile App Academy

NAME YOUR APP

Be creative. An app name can make all the difference. Think about some of the best apps available, they are usually less than 11 characters and describe or hint at the user experience inside (i.e., Twitter: tweets are small sounds that birds make OR small bursts of information).

Brainstorming room...

NAME OF YOUR APP:

BuzzEd

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Student Name: Lucas Isaza 08/07/2014 Date:


DESCRIBE YOUR APP (500 WORDS)

What will users be able to do? What makes your app unique? Is it going to help, inform or entertain?

BuzzEd will create a way for students to communicate information, projects, and questions to their teachers and fellow students through one mobile app using wireless internet or data. Today the conveying of projects, homework, and questions that occurs between students and teachers is difficult outside of the classroom because it is done through e-mail which is not very suited for that purpose. The idea behind BuzzEd is to create a platform that allows students to communicate with teachers; that communication entails sharing projects, asking and answering questions, and informing the students of anything that they should know or be aware about.

Features:

● Buzz Groups○ These are the different groups of students and teachers with whom the user is

communicating with. ○ When the school year begins, the everyone downloads the app and each teacher

creates individual groups for each of their classes by selecting the students who are in each class. Once in the group the teacher can easily connect with the students in that class.

○ The teacher can switch between classes and have different conversations going on at the same time. They can also add or remove students from the group based on who is in the class.

● Story○ This is where the conversation and sharing of projects occurs.○ A benefit to keeping these conversations in a texting style format is that both the

student and teacher have easy access to the history of the conversation or in BuzzEd, known as the Story. Imagine that at the end of the semester the history teacher gave you (the student) an 80% on the test because he did not include the works cited page at the end. You could then show the teacher the story to show them that they had requested the students not to add in a works cited.

○ The teacher can keep track of the assignments they hand out. ○ Any notifications will be recorded as part of the story.

● Sharing Projects○ Students and teachers can add documents to the conversation by selecting the

document from Dropbox or another cloud storing system.○ What makes this aspect unique is that it creates a group chat setting around a

document or project that they are able to comment on or ask questions that the teacher or any other student can answer there.

○ Students can also upload their projects.● Calendar Sync

○ This feature enables the teacher to create their monthly calendar for each subject with all of the assignments included with their respective due date and it will alert the students with a notification when an assignment is due.

○ Students receive the notifications from various Buzz Groups on their Samsung devices without having to go check their e-mail for the attached document.

○ Whoever creates the group has access to edit and create the calendar. In this case the teacher would be the one to have access.

● Limitations○ All of the students in the class and the teacher need to have a mobile device that

has the capabilities to download apps like BuzzEd.

Concept Submission

Student Name: Lucas Isaza 08/07/2014 Date:


WHICH MOBILE PLATFORM(S) WILL YOU DEVELOP THIS APP FOR? CHECK OFF A BOX BELOW:

Smartphone Tablet Both

HOW IS YOUR APP GOING TO SOLVE A CURRENT NEIGHBORHOOD PROBLEM AND HELP YOUR COMMUNITY?

Will your app be a call to action, a medium to house information, a means to bring your community together... or all three?

BuzzEd will serve as a medium to house information as well as be a means to bring the school community together by encouraging students to have more communication with their teachers and be more involved. As a medium to house information, the app will provide a communication platform that allows anyone in the group to easily read through the whole conversation or the Story. Through this teachers will record the assignments that they give out and the instructions they give to their students. Similarly, students will have the same capability to be able to look back on their Story and see the assignments and directions they were given.

The app will serve as the place where anything regarding the class can be dealt with quickly and easily. As a means to bring the community together it will enable students to comment on projects or assignments and provide effective and helpful feedback all on the same platform. In this aspect it will bring people together and house information.Furthermore, students on their mobile devices will be notified of any upcoming assignments, thus eliminating the hassle of having to ask someone for the assignment or forgetting about it completely. Lastly, this provides an opportunity for students who are not generally involved in class conversations to contribute in some way on BuzzEd where talking is not in a class setting so they will not be as nervous to speak.

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Student Name: Lucas Isaza Date: 08/07/2014


WHO IS BEST SUITED TO USE THIS APP?

Why are they your target audience? Hint: Be descriptive about who they are, what they like and why this app is perfect for them.

WHO ARE YOUR COMPETITORS AND WHAT SETS YOUR APP APART FROM THEIRS?

your competitor’s app, and how your app turns those weaknesses into strengths.

The app will be useful to students in highschool and college with a mobile phone and to their teachers. The app is made for teachers and their students who want to have a platform that enables them to share documents between them and who would like to have more communication on one platform that is built for this rather than e-mail which is not always accessible or text which does not allow documents to be shared very easily. For teachers who like to inform their students of their assignments, with Calendar Sync on BuzzEd they can do this and know that all of their students got the assignment. To get the best use of this app, students would need to contribute to the conversation by asking questions about assignments. The teachers would also need to be willing to use the application for all of its purposes to get the most out of it.

In the Google Play Store I did not find any messaging apps that allowed people to share documents. Likewise, I did not find any messaging apps built for students and teachers to communicate. The biggest competitors would be the messaging apps like Whatsapp, Textie Messaging, or any other messaging apps. They all seem to have the same purpose which is to allow users to message each other over wifi or enabled data; the difference between them is their design and user interface. What makes BuzzEd unique is that it isn’t geared towards everyone who wants to message, nor is it made to just talk between groups. In essence, the app is made for students and teachers, it’s reach to potential users does not extend much further and it is done so on purpose so that it can solve a specific problem. BuzzEd is made for teachers and their students to ask questions, comment, and share documents. It also has the capabilities to allow teachers to schedule messages in the calendar and the app will send them.

Another competitor could be traditional e-mail in the way that it allows people to share documents. But e-mail lacks in the way that it does not create a conversational atmosphere, instead it creates a one way system for one person to send something to another. BuzzEd creates a platform to communicate back and forth easily and exchange documents, photos, videos, and messages.

The calendar app on a samsung device could also be a competitor to my app in the way that it would allow teachers to put assignments and alert the students by e-mail or some other method. This calendar app however, is just that a calendar app. While the purpose of BuzzEd isn’t to provide users with an app that does everything, the idea behind the app is to create a place where all communication between the students and the teachers can occur.

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USING PROVIDED FRAMES, DRAW AND DESCRIBE UP TO THREE SCREENS THAT SHOW OFF YOUR APP!

How will your app work and look? Show the elements that appear on three key screens of your app. Then describe the content and functionality of each screen, how users navigate or transition between screens and content, and what happens when users interact with your app (i.e., tap a button).

Describe Screen 1:

Buzz +7AP English Language

Biology

Music Theory

Spanish 5

AP English Language

Biology

AP English Language

Biology

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AP US History

AP English Language

AP US History

AP English Language

AP US History

Mrs. Smith: Tomorrow we will talk about stories wrote in class today. Bring your...........

Michael: Do we have to write a works cited for the research paper?

Mr. Roberts: Here is theproject rubric. Enjoy!!!

Mr. Brown: Have a greatwinter break!

Señora Garcia: Estudiarcapitulo 12 y revisar vocabulario.

The screen below shows the first page that would appear when users open the app. This page is called the Buzz page and it includes all of the different conversations that the student or teacher are involved in. As the user scrolls down they will see the classes in which they have had conversations in. The hexagons on the left of each group represent the amount of activity of each group. The empty hexagons will appear as the first groups in the list. These are groups in which the user still needs to respond. The filled hexagons further down indicate groups that the user has already responded in.

The further down, the older the conversation. The addition symbol at the top right is where the user can create new groups. By swiping left to right on any of the current groups the user can leave our delete the group depending on if they created the group or if they joined in. The symbol on the top left is the calendar symbol which would take the user to the Calendar Sync feature of the app. This page enables the user to view what people are saying in all of the user's classes.

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Describe Screen 2:

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This is the Calendar Sync page where the user is able to see assignments based on when they are due. The user can seamlessly scroll down to view future assignments for any of their classes. If the user wants to see more closely what their assignments are they can simply tap on the "assignments" label which will provide a drop down menu of all of the classes and the number of assignments. From here the user chooses the class corresponding to an assignment and this will take the user to the Story page for that particular class. The creator of the group has a little more they can do on this page. Most of the times the creator would be the teacher of the class and they would have the ability to tap the plus symbol to add assignments.


Science 1

History 1

Pre-Calc 2

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Describe Screen 3:

Story +AP US HistoryAP US HistoryAP US History

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James Smith

Kate Johnson

newdealpaper.pdf

interesting, I specially liked the emphasis on FDR as a leader

This is the screen where students and teachers can communicate and share and comment on projects. This page is called the Story page because it is where the conversation occurs and where anybody in the group can scroll up and read the history of the group message with all of the documents. The creator of this group can tap the button on the top right to add people to the group. Anyone in the group can tap on the document figure at the top left which would bring a drop down menu where the user can select from where they want to choose a file to add whether it's Dropbox or the Samsung Cloud or any other cloud sharing system. The user can also add photos and videos by tapping on the hexagon with "zz" in the center on the left of the screen.


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