OMG Parentvue redesign is so BAD and unusable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a new MCPS parent and am so confused by ParentVue. This thread makes me feel better!

It's actually far more clear and user-friendly now than before.

Completely agree! So much simpler and clear now!

=1000 love it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a new MCPS parent and am so confused by ParentVue. This thread makes me feel better!

It's actually far more clear and user-friendly now than before.

Completely agree! So much simpler and clear now!

=1000 love it!

For people who grew up in the 70s.

[Anonymous]

It’s really bad on my phone. I couldn’t register for summer school at all, had to use my computer instead. It still looks bad on the desktop, everything is ginormous and ugly and clunky, but at least it functions.

My husband is a UX consultant, and won’t even touch it. I swear he was physically cringing as he backed away and asked me to please finish the registration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a new MCPS parent and am so confused by ParentVue. This thread makes me feel better!

It's actually far more clear and user-friendly now than before.

Completely agree! So much simpler and clear now!

=1000 love it!

For people who grew up in the 70s.

with advanced degrees that focus on human-computer interaction and design

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s really bad on my phone. I couldn’t register for summer school at all, had to use my computer instead. It still looks bad on the desktop, everything is ginormous and ugly and clunky, but at least it functions.

My husband is a UX consultant, and won’t even touch it. I swear he was physically cringing as he backed away and asked me to please finish the registration.

sounds like user-error

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a new MCPS parent and am so confused by ParentVue. This thread makes me feel better!

It's actually far more clear and user-friendly now than before.

Completely agree! So much simpler and clear now!

=1000 love it!

I appreciate its simplicity and clarity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a new MCPS parent and am so confused by ParentVue. This thread makes me feel better!

It's actually far more clear and user-friendly now than before.

Completely agree! So much simpler and clear now!

=1000 love it!

For people who grew up in the 70s.

with advanced degrees that focus on human-computer interaction and design

I see MCPS tech people have found this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s really bad on my phone. I couldn’t register for summer school at all, had to use my computer instead. It still looks bad on the desktop, everything is ginormous and ugly and clunky, but at least it functions.

My husband is a UX consultant, and won’t even touch it. I swear he was physically cringing as he backed away and asked me to please finish the registration.

sounds like user-error

It's bad on the desktop but much much worse on the phone.

[Anonymous]

It is fairly similar to most MCPS initiatives in that it's antiquated and clunky and makes complex what could be simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kids hate it also, i heard it broke one of the most used feature

And what feature is that?

[Anonymous]

It was so bad before not sure how they made it worse but they did

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids hate it also, i heard it broke one of the most used feature

And what feature is that?

Maybe related to grades? Older kids look at grades almost every day if not a few times a day and you used to be able to filter all task assignments on mobile because those grades are worth the most. In the first version of StudentVue it actually gave you a total of all tasks and all PP grades and how much they were worth in the weighting system so you could track things how you should be able to track them. The private schools our DC's cousins attend all let you do this FWIW. Then in the second version they took that away and make the grades more clunky. Now you can't filter by assignment type at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s really bad on my phone. I couldn’t register for summer school at all, had to use my computer instead. It still looks bad on the desktop, everything is ginormous and ugly and clunky, but at least it functions.

My husband is a UX consultant, and won’t even touch it. I swear he was physically cringing as he backed away and asked me to please finish the registration.

sounds like user-error

If it is, it's common enough that the design was the problem. Other people here reported the same issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s really bad on my phone. I couldn’t register for summer school at all, had to use my computer instead. It still looks bad on the desktop, everything is ginormous and ugly and clunky, but at least it functions.

My husband is a UX consultant, and won’t even touch it. I swear he was physically cringing as he backed away and asked me to please finish the registration.

sounds like user-error

If it is, it's common enough that the design was the problem. Other people here reported the same issue.

older people aren't tech savvy but it's super obvious for anyone used to computers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids hate it also, i heard it broke one of the most used feature

+1
Some kid apparently created a better interface and it works on top of StudentVue and that's what the kids use. Incredible how some kid just hacked it together in their spare time and our well funded school district who has lots of full time staff can't manage to put together something that's minimally useful.

All too often such an effort works fine from the front end, but doesn't have meaningful security on the back end.