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Review  of iQube website: languages

1) The menu to get into the resource library is not obvious at the start (ie the parallel lines at 
the top left). There is no way of knowing that this is the way in. I think an introductory help 
menu – which can be skipped at log in  - would be helpful. I used to subscribe to the 
language websites known as spanish101, russian101 etc. This was exactly their problem. 
There was a lot of nice material and resources, it was just blooming difficult to know how to 
get there.

2) The requesting for help is interesting but for languages needs some refinement I think. I 
could do with a chat about how the menus look. For instance do you want help with a 
particular aspect of grammar, or maybe some ideas about content when doing a particular 
topic. Not quite sure what this would look like – might need to use some pupil guinea pigs to 
see it in action

3) I think there should be a warning about plagiarism in the asking for help section somewhere
4) Content library. I think there needs a subject specific menu before you get to the resource 

library menu. It currently goes straight to maths.
5) I wonder if there could be a page for suggesting how to use the resource library. This might 

be a video or a page. It could obliquely refer to learning pathways. Again, the 101 websites 
were very frustrating on this

6) Currently there are some issues with the options:
i. Past papers option not working at all(JK: Past papers in French and Spanish 

subject consists audio files and pdf files. There is nothing to view in opening 
audio files content and preview is not available for pdf content however pdf 
content is viewable in maths subject)

ii. The second drop down menu after the title just says “select 
subcategory”(JK:Subcategory dropdown does not show options until subject 
is selected. We need to hide subcategory option until subject is selected.)

iii. When it comes to activity subcategory only the “to do” actgivity comes up. 
This may well be down to the initial spreadsheet which maybes I should look 
at and revise(JK: In the content spreadsheet of french and spanish, content 
type of all content is "To Do". So this is not in our hand to resolve)

7) In terms of the resource library I was wondering if we should consider something akin to 
what the TES does for its resources. Students/Teachers could send in files of resources they 
have prepared or found useful. They get reviewed by SME and there is quality control 
element. Once uploaded credits can be earned according to how many likes they get?