Formative usability evaluation of a web-based lecture capture & learning management solution

Lecture capture technology and learning management solution has in recent years played a key role in smart education. Lecture capture can be simplified as a set of technologies that digitally record what takes place during lecture sessions in classrooms, and can be made available for review to students and lecturers on computers or other smart devices. It may vary in several aspects; cost, infrastructure, technical support and expertise such as manual capture of audio/video or fully automated and many more. While capturing and sharing lecture sessions seem particularly useful, the usability aspects of the application remain crucial to provide a positive and beneficial experience to users at large. This paper will discuss on the formative usability evaluation of EduPrez; a learning management solution which is seamlessly integrated with lecture capture tool. Formative evaluation was conducted to discover problems end-user potentially encounter and fix them. Information collected using heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthrough techniques have been useful to elicit several usability issues to improve EduPrez while in design and development stage.