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Grade 4 Study Buddies

Will TranStan Ly

Aaron CoxAlan Mohr

Aminus Team

Study Buddy

The computer program Study Buddy follows the grade 4 curriculum guidelines in areas of math and spelling, and is a simple but useful teaching tool for teachers that wish to give their students an individualized level of practice that will review, reinforce, and challenge their abilities in these subjects through the repetition of asking questions and eliciting responses.

Features

Easy to use with minimal instruction.

Self-adjusts to student’s level of learning

Expandable Generate more questions Connect your favourite programs

Visually tracks Student’s progress

Architecture

Login

Question Generator

Main Menu

User Statistics

Memory Card

Symbol Swap

Count The Blocks

Picture Spell

Source Code Testing

Test harnesses were created for non-GUI related classes

The testing was done on the class and function level e.g. Create a User object, call methods for

updating user statistics, then call the output methods

Functionality Testing

Test plans were created for each feature in the system

Each test plan was comprised of a series of specific actions and expected results e.g. Main Menu: “Picture Spell” button

initializes Picture Spell buddy?    Y/N

The System Works

Unit tests report no errors

Functionality checklists have been successfully completed

No errors have been reported by from real users

Known Issues

More robust question generation Teachers can create questions, but they can't

remove them Teachers can’t use the question generator for

externally created plugins

Better user management Existing users can’t be removed from the

system

User Feedback

Mark T., teacher, “a simple and effective tool that my students will benefit from.”

Amanda H., grade 4 student, “I liked the memory game the best.”

Carolyn M., mother, “My son actually found math to be fun when practicing with Study Buddy.”

Connie W., “The changes made in the latest version has made using each Study Buddy much more intuitive.”

Project Review

Many of the techniques used were from the PMBOK of Project Management

There were no major technical problems, however, The first GUI and GUI layout caused user confusion so some changes to the design had to be implemented.

The Aminus Team has advanced to the next level of

A Team

Advice from the A Team

Create an attainable scope for your project and stay within that scope.

Create a work schedule budget for the entire project to monitor progress and remain on time.

Maintain at least two meetings a week and have an agenda set before the meeting.

Consider Bus 361 – Project Management

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