Usabilidade em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem.

Abstract

Distance Education modality has been growing in the pass few years and combined with it the utilization of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) as a support to share knowledge e learning through teaching strategies. Because the VLEs are able to provide iteration with its users, it is undeniable that these systems must have usability features on their interface. These project has its goal improve usability features in a VLE developed by a research group from the IT department at UNISC. To this, the follow steps were done: design a usability test plan; evaluate the VLE by testing it on users, in order to find out about usability issues on it; propose improvements; reevaluate the VLE by testing it on users after the improvements had been applied; analysis of its results. After all the improvements were done and analyzed a reevaluation, it is possible to see the needs to identify a usability issues during a designing of a VLE because they may be very helpful to its developers, designers and teams production of teaching materials to meet the audience’s needs.