Functionality: ★★☆
- Scale:★★☆
- Minor Concerns. The tool can scaled to accommodate any size class but lacks flexibility to create smaller sub-groups or communities of practice.
- Ease of Use:★★★
- Works Well. The tool has a user-friendly interface that is easy to navigate and personalize for both instructor and learner. Use is intuitive for both instructor and learner.
- Tech Support/Help Availability (for Instructors):★★☆
- Minor Concerns. Technical support and help documentation is available but limited, incomplete, or not user-friendly.
- Tech Support/Help Availability (for Students):★★☆
- Minor Concerns. Technical support and help documentation is available but limited, incomplete, or not user-friendly
- Hypermediality :★★★
- Works Well. The tool allows users to communicate through different channels (audio, visual, textual) and allows for non-sequential, flexible/adaptive engagement with material
Accessibility: ★★★
- Accessibility Standards:★★☆
- Minor Concerns. The tool has some limited capacity to meet accessibility guidelines (i.e. W3C WCAG 2.0 standards)
- User-focused participation:★★★
- Works Well. The tool is designed to address the needs of diverse users, their various literacies, and capabilities, thereby widening opportunities for participation in learning.
- Required Equipment:★★★
- Works Well. Proper use of the tool does not require specialized equipment
Technical: ★★★
- Integration/Embedding within a Learning Management System (LMS) :
- Not Applicable.The tool is not intended to accomplish the goals of a particular category.
- Operating Systems:★★★
- Works Well. Users can effectively utilize the tool with any standard, up-to-date operating system.
- Web Browser:★★★
- Works Well. Users can effectively utilize the tool with any standard, up-to-date web browser
- Additional Technical Requirements:★★★
- Works Well. Users do not need to download additional software or browser extensions. Additional accounts or software is not required
Mobile Design: ★★☆
- Access:★★☆
- Minor Concerns. The tool offers an app, but only for a limited set of mobile operating systems. Tool is not accessible through a mobile browser.
- Functionality:★★★
- Works Well. There is little to no functional difference between the mobile and the desktop version, regardless of the device used to access it.
- Offline Access:★☆☆
- Serious Concerns. The mobile platform cannot be used in any capacity offline.
Usage and Account Set Up: ★★★
- Sign Up/Sign In:★★★
- Works Well. Use of the tool does not require the creation of an external account or additional login but a Gmail account; no personal user information is collected and shared.
- Cost of Use:★★★
- Works Well. Use of the tool does not require the creation of an external account or additional login; no personal user information is collected and shared. The personal information Figma collects depends on how one interacts with their Services
- Archiving, Saving, and Exporting Data :★★★
- Works Well. Users can archive, save, or import and export content or activity data in a variety of formats (some of which are open standards).
- Data Privacy and Ownership:★★★
- Works Well. Users maintain ownership and copyright of their intellectual property/data; the user can keep data private and decide if / how data is to be shared.
Social Presence: ★★☆
- Collaboration :★★☆
- Minor Concerns. The tool has the capacity to support a community of learning through asynchronous but not synchronous opportunities for communication, interactivity, and transfer of meaning between users.
- User Accountability:★★★
- Works Well. Instructors can control learner anonymity; the tool provides technical solutions for holding learners accountable for their actions
- Diffusion:★★☆
- Minor Concerns. Learners’ familiarity with the tool is likely mixed, some will lack basic technical competence with its functions.
Teaching Presence: ★★★
- Facilitation:★★★
- Works Well. The tool has easy-to-use features that would significantly improve an instructor’s ability to be present with learners via active management, monitoring, and engagement.
- Customization:★★★
- Works Well. Tool is adaptable to its environment: easily customized to suit the classroom context and targeted learning outcomes.
- Learning Analytics:★★☆
- Minor Concerns. Instructor can monitor learners’ performance on limited measures; or data is not presented in a format that is easily interpreted.
Cognitive Presence: ★★★
- Enhancement of Cognitive Task(s):★★★
- Works Well. The tool enhances engagement in targeted cognitive task(s) that were once overly complex or inconceivable through other means.
- Higher Order Thinking:★★★
- Works Well. Use of the tool easily facilitates learners to exercise higher order thinking skills (given consideration to design, facilitation, and direction from instructor).
- Feedback on Learning:★★☆
- Minor Concerns. Opportunities for receiving formative feedback on learning are available, but infrequent or limited (i.e. poor opportunities for tracking performance, monitoring improvement, testing knowledge on a regular basis).