Every instance of an Activity now includes on the last screen a Done button.
This has cause a great deal of confusion for teachers, creators, and most importantly for students.
- Teachers don’t know what they did to make it suddenly appear.
- Creators don’t know what functionality it does or doesn’t have.
- Students wrongly assume it’s necessary to click this button to “finish” their math or worse think that clicking the button means they’re finished and they needn’t do anything else.
I’m filing this as a genuine bug because it negatively impacts usability in different ways across every user of the Activity Builder. Numerous posts on this forum clearly point to a need for this to be addressed.
Some thoughts on implementation:
- the button should not appear by default but instead be opt-in for creators
- documentation should be updated to include explanations as to its purpose and control
- students should be given information via a tool-tip or other method to indicate the significance of the button
Additionally, while the button can be hidden via hideNextButton: true this is both unsemantic and more work than simply making the button opt-in rather than opt-out. It is unsemantic because it’s not the “next” button someone would want to hide but rather hiding the entire Done button altogether, which would matter a great deal if one were to shuffle around screens or delete screens for example. This should be a top-level control, not a screen control.
Thanks very much