Deliverable 4.1 Report of beta testing of tool
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1.2. t Final beneficiaries High School and University Students Career Advisors and Employment Professionals RES Companies employers and employees Policy makers General Public As far as the web based tool is concerned it consists of three different parts 1 The test of interests skills and competences 2 the job profiles list and contents and 3 the updated database of training opportunities The users are first asked to answer a set of 30 questions the test in order to be guided into one or two of the 4 different groups of occupations Each group consists of approximately 10 different occupations the Job profiles For each job profile there 1s the possibility to explore different training courses all over Europe the database of training opportunities that can be followed in order to have all the needed skills to work in the field 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 5 of 32 Web based tool A deeper analysis of these components and how they interact between each other The test for interest skills and competences This is a self assessment test of interests and skills that allows the categorisation of the tool users in different groups of renewable energy occupations The test 1s based on the fact that all job profiles are divided into four different Job sectors groups e Technicians Manufacturing amp Construction and Operation amp Maintenance e Technica
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4. am not allowed to add Course Language IDEC should work Fixed There was an extra field training Ecrire training Last Update of training is not working entered a training and that threw an error Now it 16 offers offers edit it did not change IDEC should work Fixed career get an error page whenever click on a job profile screen test job profiles attached IDEC Fixed career All trainings that appear below each job profile are presented test job profiles in national language and not in English IDEC Fixed N career 19 test job profiles Article title is presented 2 times IDEC career test job profiles Email works but pdf gives an error IDEC career Integration problem with template In the left menu I only get test job profiles one menu option while normally there should be more IDEC job profiles Can we make trainings appear always below the job profiles IDEC Fixed N e Fixed Not yet available 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 15 of 32 Lo test o oo o Print job profiles contents of the job profiles but with the layout of the book make links of training offers appear like links on career pdf otherwise it has not meaning page xx xx logo of test job profiles project disclaimer IDEC Fixed training get an error page whenever click on a training screen database search page attached IDEC Fixed training Integration problem with template In the left me
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6. RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 26 of 32 attention has been given when flash graphics are used to also provide textual navigation or content description in order to enhance accessibility and user friendliness Technicians Manufacturing amp Construction and Operation amp Maintenance Technical Design Consultants amp Researchers Technical Consultancy Business Development Design and R amp D Ingeneering Executives business development amp sales and marketing amp media Energy amp Regulation Advisors amp Trainers Policy Planning advice and Energy management amp advice training First Version of Compass flash in the results page of the test of interests Technicians Manufacturing amp Construction and Operation amp Maintenance Business Development Technical Design Executives Consultants amp Researchers Business development amp sales and Technical Consultancy Design and marketing amp media R amp D Engineering Energy amp Regulation Advisors amp Trainers Policy Planning advice and Energy management amp advice traming Final Version of Compass flash in the results page of the test of interests 6 5 Speed The website speed was measured using online speed metrics The average speed and load time that was reported for the tool is demonstrated below Test of Interests Average speed 0 7 sec 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of too
7. black line appears at the top with the following 99 test questions page message getQuestionld es Array IDEC finished 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 21 of 32 Make trainings always appear below each job profile not only Niotfeastbi mm job profiles after test VTT M When clicking on a job profile from the career test results on career the page add same information about course as in training Not yet available test job profiles database country level IDEC HTML printing to include Datestamp date and time of taking the test Picture of compass pointing to the relevant sector Not yet available Results as these are presented in the page sector text career related job profiles with same information as in training oa results page database Page Number no x x Logo of project disclaimer o 5 HTML printing to include Contents of job profile but with the aoo Not yet available IL job profiles layout of the book M a a S database page Add HTML printing functionality 105 database page Add button to view the compared training offers in full screen impossible gt press F11 finished training offer page training comparison make available a last updated on field so that users can added translation tag database page know how old is each training offer s information IDEC info last update are you sure you want this because the progress changes dynamically in ca
8. with the authors It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Communities The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 2 of 32 Table of contents 1 Introduction m 3 2 Analysis OF COMPOMCIINS NE 4 2E Rem 7 ZEN Pray 1S SUC S e 12 BAUS CON aise ce tm 13 6 X Technical d l or b ta testing wicciccccscccsccceseseccswcesscennsccnsesnnsxecsncesssccesesesestcoese 23 ME X9 IN ee eee eee ener 23 oa MEME So IRIURE 25 6 3 Personalisation eseessseseseseseen I I n en nnnm nennen nennen nennen nnns 25 6 4 Graphic GESIQN ccccccceeccssceceeeceececeeeeeeeceeeseueeseceseueesaeesaueesaeeseueesueeseeeseusesaaes 25 rode o RERO 26 6 0 elpangadserqguligeS s uuielasemi uini eu hunde ta poma d xe Us etie E SUM ERU EU Mon EIS 2f 7 Technical data from pilot testing eese 29 8 Suggestions for future development 31 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 3 of 32 1 INTRODUCTION One of the main parts of the RES COMPASS project is the web based tool T
9. Chemical Laboratory Assistant Quality and control sneciakste In order to view the contents of a certain job profile the user has to click on the corresponding link in the results page of the career test He she will then be transferred to the job profile page This contains information about the specific profile overview tasks interests amp skills education training as well as a list of the relevant training course options available from the training database 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 10 of 32 WZ gt PL uM RES COMPASS HOME FAOE 358 FROFILES FIELD EPLECTRICUIA Field Electrician Charraire Fiki alecircians who wirk wih oneaeio margy perar wil iral Sree SL ang Mariin Pe Seen Set fs piaba ar me Baton ses oath af PV panel wind Gurbin Redbpump inzialasons in hommes or for larges commercial pperadpng They aso metr and Minn Ere perge conos Nr Fe Serie gengrasng euipeeet Being aem elaciician ip a physical job ae pore work mies glace in me ogblocre 3nd ort ii nMty riae mee in weber condmons which mae be hol cold dri wel or cramped A algo can imo tegen Cel In navy erslaliabon gites Ecrans Can w rk Sr Hames m srl companies er it part of linge onganisaions and rebeorks They work wif schamabes and Buwings meal dirae ihe lcalonms of gipu connecbons toad centres panel boards and other oquigment in addGon bo wring the eiechiral eeitems Sheers my erste c
10. EC Fixed training 45 database search page Multilingual search criteria IDEC info search criteria Fixed training ale Lou Multilingual Compare list IDEC info compare list Fixed training Title of offer has to appear in the following way English name 47 database search page Level of Qualification Country IDEC training 48 database search page Level and country must appear in each national language IDEC Fixed training Make Save and Cancel button bigger and move them to the database search page bottom of the pop up IDEC training database search page Change compare buttons with checkboxes IDEC Fixed Fixed Fixed 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 17 of 32 When first entering in the training database make it present only the results of the country whose language the user is training using So just have as default when entering the page the database search page current local language IDEC Fixed Change of way of appearance of search Now training Eliminate pop up and handle all refining of search criteria in database search page the column IDEC training comparison Group the contact details and move them at the end group the database page country with the delivery language IDEC Fixed Update It was not written correctly by grouping we meant to database page but country and delivery language should be changed IDEC Fixed itis not pup up but integrated inside the page
11. ae INTELLIGENT ENERGY f EUROPE B RES COMPASS Renewable Energy Sources Compass Supported by the European Commission Project IEE 07 574 812 499064 Start 2008 10 01 Duration 2 months ST au A Ib ain Deliverable 4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Revision 1 Due date March 2010 M18 Actual submission date November 2010 M26 Lead contractor IDEC Dissemination level Public to be freely disseminated e g via the project website CO Confidential only for members of the consortium including the Commission IEEA Services only in exceptional cases RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 1 of 32 Deliverable Administration amp Summary Editor IDEC S A DotA Report of beta testing of the RES Compass tool after the technical checking and before the pilot period Comments _ Author Description 2010 06 03 IDEC S A First version of report of beta testing of RES Compass tool 2 2010 09 22 IDEC S A Updating of bugs inclusion of new compass graphics 2010 10 26 IDEC S A Updating of bugs 2010 11 27 IDEC S A Updating of report inclusion of piloting technical data and google analytics data Disclaimer The information in this document is provided as is and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability The sole responsibility for the content of this publication lies
12. ag can ime Preyer m rama Ea nee inato shes r Elertriciaeg can work for hienen in small companies OF xs pari of in Q garisabons and nets Ther work weh echemaecs and ears ma indeax me locations of rimus connec nnt low rentes panel baan s and cher equipment ki dain to wiring the peactrical grein ehaciciang maginsiall coama ci fibre optir cable Sr In the same section ta mpulterg and emer lelecommuniamong eqns Electriciang mus follow the laca regulations when Twy install these pyslems bo ensone trial gw galaj in others and herria If the user wishes to view a training offer out of the list that is provided below each job profile he she will need to click on the link This will transfer the user to the training offer page Me ic er fc s PH PAGE b Cogent afe mainiungeag Pair egapmaentvehiise yk Vor d part o4 beam 53 achieve ecrmmon goal kiaestas A Skills A carpes d5 a Dad electrician 5 a gral choice dor bibina eto lis lo WO with ner hands and has an inertes imn Technology s Interests and apbhude nr exscmical mi pndlogy E Encwledge of machines and Inols including Their uses and here to maiman Abit bo he diae 53 and unde en gireicalinsbur bons k Good phrsical shape i Sod inprpesgpna siiis particulare in customer relattansz k Business skills ifinserested in entrapraneurzhip Piutau T aire All eleckicuvs anm acensed aed Preme 1o begin a cee d a Seld Gethin E oi neccessary do comple the minimum man
13. can the user do in each part of the tool e Privacy issues How the personal data of the tool s users are ensured e Bugs report What is the methodology and the forms used to report problems and propose improvements of the tool Which are these bugs e Technical data of beta testing ease of use content quality personalisation graphic design speed system help and user guides How these issues handled by the RES Compass tool e Technical data from the pilot testing What did the pilot participants think about the tool e Suggestions for future development What are the possible improvements that can be made on the tool 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 4 of 32 2 ANALYSIS OF COMPONENTS The RES Compass website allows the use of a decision tool the compass to help direct students who may be interested in a career in the renewable energies sector The results of the questionnaire point students to the career categories they may be most suited to and find most interesting The site has over 40 job profiles related to specific careers in the renewable energy sector The site also includes a searchable database of over 700 vocational and higher education courses related to renewable energy across Europe The next figure shows the possible connections between the different products and activities of the project and shows the overall methodology uos DEVELOPMENT PHASE TESTING PHASE
14. dalory aduralion cr a mcognised eleckical apprenticeship and obtain oficial nuaWkasongs This ig bisike fmm local momen vworatonal educabon 4e baring c v nes Thay can then go on Ib ded wih r n ewable energy blechn legies afe add amp ng baring agin mami woratienal educaliom and maining cones REALATELD TRAINING OFFERS naires Of ma Feder Ministry ef Traffic inniovaban and Techmelngy and the ain Energy Agency Conleentesg temigra in Gerad aD ip id Fion and renewslol anvronmani MICRO HYDRO haing obute Micra B aes mit 5 raining Bia compatible electricity training Reneedbis ereng and aneng rmaedgemeani training Traini Electrical and renewable anargy Technician in Ranewabla Erang oar tgrmal phbkreoEaic and small wind braire BEP Elaciricity raining apban renewalta energy Sour ph kemokaic module FRO barcaaurmeaie mainienance technician of ie energelkal and innate yria Solar and wind enenw Ihermical and erargy engineering DUT Essctebechnical ETE General Licence GEME mention wind and photewoEaic energy 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 12 of 32 4 PRIVACY ISSUES When starting the test the user is asked to enter some basic information about his her self e Email e Country e Occupation a School student b University student c Employment professional d Career advisor e Other e Gender a Male b Female This information 1s used for 2 reasons 1 To allow a us
15. e Hle ener Ygy Compass can h eet The RES Compass career decisi n tool consists of senes c nagar ons designed to guide you towards one the four Fenewable Energy Sectors WOW arg most sumed to based on your infjeresis and sills fth n each of the Tour carter sectors you vell discover the various types ol careers avaiable Information r amp green on each career in the form of job profile which gives deis Is on the jab and the tacks you would perforrn 3e well as the kils and the Training guro to get started The questions ane presented together with pairs of answers and you must choose the one which matches closest to your personality Ta greg ne best possible result you shoukl respond bo the full set of questions F you have not encountered a simiaeon presented in a question you Can e y ur mag to thank hoar you would react and choose the Sentence which best descnbes Eis Anserer truthfully and remernber Eo Here are n o correct or incorrect answers tme obtive is simply to gre you an idea on which career direcbon you could take yous iari ange an anwer you can do eo at any ine There is no time limit to answer the quesbonnare aBhough we recommend you da not spend too much Gree on each question The whole test should take ess than 10 minutes Once you have Sup eted the test and browsed thru igh the job profiles you wil find that RES Compass also has a list af renewable enengy training Courses avadable ever the whole of the EUS to help
16. elevance the texts used for each section are simple and geared directly towards the target audience Jargon has been minimised where possible although some details the user may not understand e g software used by certain individuals etc have been included to allow the student to investigate more should they find a particular profile interesting The tone of the texts 1s encouraging For example in the job profiles in Interests and Skills the phrases aim to engage the student by making the section quite personal i e including the word you Also in the Overview section phrases are used to state why the job is important again in order to engage the student The contents are well structured in terms of paragraphs and headings and there is a common structure for each content group meaning that job profiles are presented in a common way same for questions and training offers The extent of the contents is good keeping job profiles questions and training offer details to reasonable sizes for online reading In terms of usage of media images and photos these are not heavily used in the tool in order to keep it simple and light When necessary images have been included to make the contents more appealing photos of people working in job profiles It would be beneficial for the users and the presentation of the contents to add more pictures in the job profiles but this has been problematic as not many exist for each different occupa
17. er that has started a test but did not manage to finish it to continue at a later date without losing any data 2 For statistical reasons within the framework of the RES Compass project After the user has entered the required data he she 1s also asked to type 4 alphanumerical characters This is for security reasons In case the characters are unclear the user can click on the Reload Image to get a new set of security character to type e E a P E B RES LUNIPaSS See vender hema fey Reload image Stan Taat The above mentioned procedure is the simplest method to keep some statistical data for the tool and ensure the protection of user s data The data are available only to the tool technical coordinator and are not used for advertising reasons not even to disseminate the RES Compass project since the users have not be asked if they agree on it 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 13 of 32 5 BUGS REPORT In order to identify any technical or implementation problems connected to the RES Compass web based tool a specific form was used This form was prepared by IDEC and was used by all partners in order to report any bug improvement or change they wanted to The form was online using eoogle docs technology and was everyday checked by IDEC IDEC had the responsibility to gather all the reporting and provide the needed technical solutions Every activity or task made was
18. ers because they can search and find the course that better suits them from the point of view of content level language etc e t is directly connected to the orientation tool and the job profiles section providing courses that are suitable for each job profile e t adds to dissemination taking into consideration the number of contacts effectuated to build the database e Jt is a very strong asset for potential exploitation commercialisation hence sustainability of the project results as some of the institutions offering the training courses may be interested in being advertised through the RES Compass portal 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 7 of 32 3 OVERVIEW OF TOOL For a user to enter the tool he she can click on either the first banner or the text link from the horizontal navigation menu TTE Tiris E d l L rj the i wh o career m LO mms ea reneus he sues Li ST a 7 NCHA Eat CARO TEST SPOTL TRAMMID DATABASE CONTACTS Career test Over 40RES JOB PROFILES Welcome Fed meus acer tee RES OPS pepe Nows ERER YT UHKDOH ON TOURI pepe Once the user accesses the tool he she is transferred to an introduction page which contains general information about the contents of the career test and advice on the best way to answer the questions The text is presented in the current language of the website So if for example the user was previously vie
19. esting of tool Page 16 of 32 training comparison Restrict number of training offers that the user can compare to database page 9 due to template size IDEC training comparison Make all fields appear in the comparison page apart from info 37 database page ID IDEC training comparison database page get an empty page in the comparison page IDEC training comparison Restrict number of training offers that the user can compare to database page 3 IDEC Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed In the comparison page only the fields info id name name in training comparison english country and institute name appear All fields should appear even if some of them are empty Was waiting for input on which fields and in which order to include IDEC Fixed database Tick boxes are used as the user can choose which trainings to compare and not loose them even if he N page training database search page Change tick boxes with other type of buttons IDEC refines the search Fixed training Czech translations have not database search page Czech job profiles do not appear IDEC been inserted yet Fixed When a user adds a search criteria the elements that have training been selected appear as any instead of appearing in each Fixed the string to be database search page national language IDEC translated is info any Fixed training Words that have to be multilingual 1 button Add 2 button database search page Cancel 3 button Save ID
20. his is an online tool which includes a self assessment test of interests and skills that allows the categorisation of the tool users in different groups of renewable energy occupations At the same time it provides to the users the opportunity to explore different job profiles and several courses on renewables all over Europe The tool related objectives of the RES COMPASS project are to e Provide vocational orientation to high school and university students on RES occupations e Provide information about RES job profiles e Provide information about RES related training courses currently offered in EU 27 e Facilitate recruitment and planning of conversion courses needed for integration of new personnel by RES industry e Boost mobility and employment in RES sector The current report summarizes the work done for the development of the tool and more particularly the beta testing of it from the first days of its building till the end of the pilot sessions Responsible for the reporting of all the activities done and the technical evaluation of the tool 1s IDEC The rest of the partners reported any problems or improvements identified for the tool All requirements identified in this report will be the base for the further development and the improvement of the tool The report is divided into 6 parts e Analysis of components Which are the main parts of the tool and how they interfere between each other e Overview of tool Which actions
21. l Design Consultants amp Researchers Technical Consultancy Design and R amp D e Energy amp Regulation Advisors amp Trainers Policy Planning advice and Energy Management amp advice training and e Business Development Executives Business Development amp Sales and Marketing amp Media Target group of the test are students in secondary vocational or high education high schools vocational centres technical schools colleges and universities as well as recent graduates The RES Compass tool is the core of the RES Compass project For this reason the RES Compass team devoted extra time and man resources for its development and testing The result was more than satisfining since it proved to meet the expectations and needs of the final users review from the evaluation questionnaires The Job profiles Purpose of the job profiles is to give a concise description of what each job is likely to entail in order to encourage students to consider a career in the emerging and important field of renewable energy The Job profiles section is one of the parts that had major impact on the overall development and progress of RES Compass as it required a lot of time and effort to be developed In this framework any content or time deviation had a clear effect on the other activities and especially on the development of the e tool and the pilot sessions as everything is interrelated Therefore the RES Compass team decided to first publish
22. l Page 27 of 32 Estimated load time UMTS DSL 768 0 10 sec 0 03 sec Speed and Load time Data taken from http rapid searchmetrics com en seo tools site analysis website speed test 46 html Job profiles Average speed 2 3 sec Estimated load time UMTS DSL 768 0 36 sec 0 12 sec Speed and Load time Data taken from http rapid searchmetrics com en seo tools site analysis website speed test 46 html Training database Average speed 1 1 sec Estimated load time UMTS DSL 768 0 17 sec 0 06 sec Speed and Load time Data taken from http rapid searchmetrics com en seo tools site analysis website speed test 46 html Based on usability theory load times below 1 second give users the feeling of navigating freely and seamlessly they are taking the action and are not waiting for a computer to perform something As it is evident from the above metrics all parts of the tool respect this rule thus maximising its usability This can be further backed up by the Google Analytics state of the art free tool for monitoring site usage data that map the connection speed of the RES Compass website and tool visitors According to this report the majority 46 32 of the users have DSL connection so they access everything in less that 0 5 seconds 6 6 Help and user guides The partnership has developed an extensive user guide that covers the entire RES Compass website and the tool plus answers to frequently a
23. l find links bo Jub progles for some of the main Careers found m this Career sector Field Electrician Heating Ventilation and AC Technicianinstaller Operation amp Maintenance Technician in Solar Thermal Power plants Vind Fann CAM technsckan Photovoltaic module installer Driling Techrician RES Construction Specialest Low Enengy buileag construction worker Automaton and control technician Cherracal Laboratory Assistant Mai and rnntmdl smeriaists If the user wants to print the results he she has to click on the printer icon at the top right of the results page lVechnicians Business Development Executives Bounce dev chafrar A sales and marketing amp moda Technical Design Consultants amp Researchers Technical Corultancy Desige and R D ngimnecnmgi Energy amp Regulation Advisors amp Trainers Policy Planning advice and nonge management amp Bale Tra rg The Renewable Energy Sector which you may be most suited to is TECHHICIANS MANUFACTURING amp CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION amp MAINTENANCE Below you wall nd links to jab profiles for Sore of Th mam careers und in this Canker Sector Field Electrician Heamng Venblabon and AC Technicianinstaller Operation amp Maintenance Techrecian in Solar Thermal Power plants Wind Farm OM bechnician Photoviitenc module installer Drilling Technician RES Construction Specialist Law Energy budding construction worker Autorabon and control techricram
24. ned date of completion April 2011 Search of training database modification of the search functionality of the training database in order to a Group the search criteria b Provide more space so that the texts of the search criteria can be fully visible Planned date of completion April 2011 Training offer modification of the presentation of each individual training offer so as to include a Logo of training institution if they have expressed their interest to add it Planned date of completion May 2011 Online form for training offers submission This is already available for administrators but it is planned to be made publically available also for the website users Planned date of completion May 201 1 Training offers list modification of the presentation of the list of training offers outcome of search criteria a Presentation of training offers in priority order 1f the organisations have paid b Addition of training institution logo if they have expressed their interest to add it Planned date of completion June 2011 Training providers area Creation of section for training providers management of own training programmes updating of information payment for advertisement Planned date of completion December 2011 Users area Creation of My Favourites section for students that will allow the addition of favourite job profiles and training offers Planned date of completion December 2011 2010 11 27
25. nu only get database search page one menu option while normally there should be more IDEC training I uM Integration problem with template fonts appear larger IDEC Fixed training When I change the search criteria and click on Save the Correct programming 27 database search page results do not change IDEC mistake Fixed training With I E 6 0 29 pop up search and compare do not work IDEC training The list is presented in national language and not in english IDEC training When compare trainings get an empty page IDEC Fixed We tried 2 different searches for Greece and we got this message name Environmental Sciences id 398 name Environmental and Natural Resources Management id 399 name Atmospheric Sciences and the Environment id 400 name training Environmental Studies id 401 name Environment and database search page Development id 415 IDEC Fixed training We need to add titles on each column IDEC send me titles Fixed training search results do not get updated Problem with Chrome IDEC SS Fixed training Appearance should be improved add borders fix alignment IDEC ee Fixed When you click once on the compare button in a training and training then you take it out of the list the checkbox remains database search page deactivated and the user cannot reselect it IDEC 2010 11 27 Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta t
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27. of beta testing of tool Page 24 of 32 navigate through the questions to the results and from there to the job profiles and the training offers Each object is named in way that the user can immediately understand the consequences of his her action All buttons have texts that describe the action that will be performed e g Proceed to Test button Previous Next buttons etc All questions are titled as Question Number of question so the user can monitor his her progress All job profiles are uniquely titled with the name of the occupation Trainings have as title the name of the training As this was not sufficient because different trainings can have the same name two more attributes were added to the title the country of the training and the level of the training program In order to navigate through the tool the user has to perform a very limited amount of actions making his her experience easier In more detail Test of interests Introduction page Maximum 2 clicks one to change language which normally is not necessary as the user has already done that before entering the tool it detects automatically the language that the website is viewed and one to click on the Proceed to test button Test of interests Question page Maximum 2 clicks one to choose the answer and one to click on the Next or Previous buttons Test of interests Results page Maximum 1 click in order to choose the job profile tha
28. otal number of questions does not appear IDEC questions 67 test question page Some translations do not appear IDEC missing translations Fixed career career When the title of the sector appears make it clickable with a test results page link to the relevant spip article IDEC Fixed See page http www rescompass org greek 79 page7job profile career Print function should be improved in terms of appearance A _print amp id 1 Let me know TO test results page blank page appears in the beginning IDEC what to change on this Fixed 71 career Problem with algorithm we got twice the following message test question page failed to initialise question 35 IDEC Fixed You need to send me the translation in order to put them in big Ifs as the career registration Words that have to be multilingual 1 button proceed to Test multilingual functionality is T3 test page 2 button Start Test 3 Question IDEC not yet fully implemented Fixed 2 career 74 test intro page Put the buttons in the introductory page above the Notice IDEC Fixed 2010 11 27 The query works as follows find the last test chronologically and check if it has been completed Completion means that the user has reached the results page If the user has finished the test and seen the results page then there is nothing that needs to be continued therefore you will get the message that career registration When enter my email get that no existing tes
29. r the site allows them to navigate through it with ease and whether the site communicates with them about what it 1s doing e Helpfulness of the web sites how the users feel that the site enables them to solve their problems with finding information and navigating The specific questions of the evaluation questionnaire concerning the above mentioned topics are the followings Together there is a presentation of the answers in order to show that the overall satisfaction of the users concerning the user friendliness of the tool Question 10 Were you able to find suitable answers to your questions while browsing the website Answers No of respondents ome m Question 13a The content is presented in an attractive way No of respondents Strongly Agree 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 30 of 32 m Strongly disagree No answer Question 13b This website is easy to navigate No of respondents Strongly Strongly disagree No answer 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 31 of 32 8 SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The planned improvements modifications that will be performed to the RES Compass tool in the near future are the following 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Job profiles enhancement of the job profile contents with more photos and with interactive keywords when difficult words are used Plan
30. re 4 taining Bin compatbhe electricity raining Renewable energy aed emegi management tening Training Elect ai and renemeabie energy Technician in Feeonsabie Engng Bolas trarre ah gholovalimic d small ied Retina BEP Electric training opaon renewable energy Solar pealiresilase mesdule PRO benala mainirmanos ehnician of the eneepeical and climatic plamy Ealar ard wind energy Toerm c M and energy engineering C4UT ElectrotechnaM BT Hengal Licence GEHE mentonwind and phlri energy If the user wants to print the job profile and the list of the training offers he she has to click on the email or printer icon at the top right of the job profile page 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 11 of 32 y Ly nhe d L1 x RES COMPASS Sc N LJ REHEWABLEENHERGT CAREERTEZI JOBFPEOFILES TEAIMIHG DATABASE CONTACTS Bg FAOE FE PE FIELD ELECTRIC Field Electrician gt Chae Fald eleciriclderr amp wht work wih renee sh energy Genera vell insti connect best and maintain the eleckical systems on Kk ason al the poducbon tiles such as FY panel wind tubi hea pump Rahn e homes e fee anger COC gerali nd They alga malal and maintain the electronic controls for the am sie generating egupmeri Being an elieciricun is 3 physical job and some work takes place in far oor and occasional may irase in working condis wren may Dena cox duty wes or crampegd E
31. reported again in the same form In this framework all partners are aware of the progress of the tool and its improvements The bugs report is available below Job profiles are normally 47 but at the end of the list 6 more appear The first one appears at the beginning of the list as Problem with query in well and the other 5 are just the repetition of one job profile Is programming Every extra job Ecrire job it a problem with spip articles or can we erase them from the record is the same record profiles promes lsi database IDEC but in different language Fixed MINI e When click on a job profile in a language e g Greek dH SZ The list is presented if you profiles mur edit cannot choose a sector do not get a list IDEC click on the sector a Perce eka pdt Woraon amet Beerrbutnotwintoia eoo profiles profiles edit Update Works on Internet Explorer but not with Mozilla IDEC LL 3 When try to link a job profile to a spip article get a list of all T Ecrire job the articles we get only the greek ones and not all the articles Query problem prones poles eat in all the languages to on from me Zz EE 2m sities edit nouae that we choose in the first drop down field nm i he When press Save remain at the same page am not job Ecrire job automatically transferred to the main list of job profiles have profiles profiles edit to press the Back button from the explorer m EE PN training Ecrire
32. se the user takes the extra 5 questions note career http docs jquery com UI Pr 107 test questions page make available a progress bar CLER ogressbar add a first row where the following information appears 1 Number of results 2 Pages 1 2 3 etc 3 No of results per pages 20 50 100 d link http ieea erba hu ieea page Page jsp op project_list amp search training type 3 ekei Exel Kal sorting functionality aAAd O xpei Ceral database search page KQTI TETOIO IDEC finished training Can we left justify at the text in the Search Criteria and Type finished database search page of Qualification See email to George dated 18 Nov BDSP 2010 11 27 finished RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 22 of 32 Can we have the Search Criteria boxes big so we can see p Not possible due to website training what is written inside The click to compare column could be template database search page moved to the right a little to make room Career registration Can we please have UK as default country for career test is finished Test page you are in looking at the site in English BDSP 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 23 of 32 6 TECHNICAL DATA OF BETA TESTING In order to carry out the beta testing certain indicators had to be set making sure that all aspects of the tool would be tested and taken into consideration The indicators established were ba
33. sed on common web usability evaluation and review practice and methodologies and consisted of the following m Ease of Use o Goal ofthe tool o Structure amp Navigation Content Quality o Relevance o Use of Media o Extent o Languages m Personalization m Graphic design Speed System help and user guide Beta testing was mainly carried out by IDEC personnel but all project partners contributed The analysis below was also enriched by pilot participants feedback when this became available 6 1 Ease of use This indicator is used to test if the user knows what to do in each screen of the tool and also how to do it without putting any special effort into it 6 1 1 Goal of the tool Scope To provide users with clear goals and expectations from the tool Analysis The RES Compass tool has a very specific theme which is stated from the very beginning in the introductory page of the career test The relevance to the user is made very clear by explaining the target groups that it addresses and the steps that the user has to follow in order to get the results 6 1 2 Structure amp Navigation Scope To provide a simple and clear structure so at to allow the users to easily navigate through the tool Analysis The tool structure is very simple consisting of basic point and click steps The user is provided with clear sets of instructions mainly through texts but also graphics in order to 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report
34. sked questions The user manual is written in simple language and uses annotated pictures in order to clearly demonstrate to the users the actions that have to be performed in order to fully experience the tool The user guide is always available for downloading from the website from a dedicated menu on the left navigation menu 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 28 of 32 Apart from the user guide the tool provides system messages informative or error in order to assist them in using it These are the following Registration screen of the test of interests System message about incomplete registration data Training database System message for limit of training offers that can be compared All system messages are multilingual 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 29 of 32 7 TECHNICAL DATA FROM PILOT TESTING In order to check the user friendliness of the tool the RES Compass team also asked some specific questions the pilot participants in order to further identify particular problems Answers express the degree to which users like the site whether they find the site pleasant to use It measures e Efficiency of the web sites degree to which users feel that the site has the information they are looking for that it works at a reasonable speed and is adapted to their browser e Controllability of the web sites degree to which users feel in charge whethe
35. t the user wishes Job profiles Maximum 1 click per training offer in order to choose it and view the training Training database This is the only section were the user can perform more actions but this was necessary in order to have higher search functionalities So the user will have to make 2 clicks per search criteria Special attention has been given in order to eliminate scrolling which is not user friendly Content pages are organised so as to present one conceptual unit of content So the tool presents one question per page one job profile per page and one training offer per page When the navigation choices are more list of training offers list of job profiles the user can easily identify to which one to go and also how to return to the starting page 1f he she has left it In general the navigation elements buttons menus remain at the same position always following the main website navigation in order to provide to the users a fully integrated tool that builds in their already gained experience of the users from using the portal The final statistics from the pilot also support the above results of the beta testing see Technical data from pilot testing section 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 25 of 32 6 2 Content Quality This indicator was used in order to assess the quality of the tool contents namely test questions job profiles and training offers In terms of r
36. t has been no existing test has been 72 test page found even though have done more than one IDEC found RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 19 of 32 Fields to appear email country EU27 occupation school career registration student university student employment professional career test page advisor other gender male female IDEC Fixed If the schools that will take part give the general email of the career registration school because some students might not have an email No only for unfinished test page address will it be a problem IDEC questionnaires Fixed Fixed N N career question page Inside questions increase the space between the two answers IDEC career Inside questions change the position of the Previous and Next test question page buttons to be below the question and the answers IDEC career Update You had marked it as done but the buttons appear on 79 test question page the centre and not left IDEC bug in algorithm when taking the test you are presented with the general true false questions inside the 30 first questions The algorithm dictates that these questions must be presented career to the user when the 30 questions finish and no sector is found test results page to correspond to their needs IDEC M E md test results page text IDEC test results page in ozech not elinks appear wih the properties test results page In czech not all links appear with the proper ti
37. th Please select and not with database search page the first option Drop down list to begin with Please select and not with the career registration first option add validation check if not selected with error test page message Not yet available fi emails finished test resuts paye The compass graphics ovin English OO test results page The compass graphic is only in English finished test results page The lst of suggested professions is ony in Engish NENNEN test results page The list of suggested professions is only in English finished Added translation tag info please select error on If one clicks compare with no selection the system throws an plugins test lang error page Replace with a message explaining that the user test en php must be training has to make at least 2 choices first this message has to be added to other test php database search page multilingual VTT translated training training page Names of job profiles are in English and not in Finnish VIT VIT VIT VIT finished finished test al change buttons to be more appealing test Change buttons to be more appealing database search page change buttons to be more appealing 0 database search page Change buttons to be more appealing career test results page Change compass to something more appealing BDSP finished finished finished Inside question page if click to change from one question to career another a
38. them online and have them available for the tool and the pilot sessions and only after that to publish them in a book format This allowed the partnership to devote extra time which was essential to the development of the entire tool and the beginning of the piloting and also to ensure a higher quality of the final published book as it contained the changes that came from the pilot participants feedback Updated database of training opportunities The purpose of the database is to present the offered courses for RES in the EU in order to help young people to find all the needed 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 6 of 32 information for the RES related educational offers Furthermore together with the test of interest and the job profiles it can guide teenagers and young people to choose the best and the most suitable for them career path in the RES sector Below is the template developed by the consortium and used for the database of training offers in RES related subjects The template is available in all languages of the portal Verbal free text information though is available only in English except of the name of the course which 1s available in English and in original language Renewable Energy Field Duration oes Telephone Contact Details The existence of such a large training offer data base on the portal is very important for several reasons namely e t adds usefulness to the us
39. tion and the ones that exist are subject to copyrights All contents are available in the 6 languages of the project Greek Spanish French Czech Finnish and English 6 3 Personalisation The RES Compass tool offers the following features of personalisation m The test of interest automatically appears in the language that the user has already chosen when viewing the website Through the registration data given a user can continue an unfinished test from the point he she left it m When entering the training database the user gets a list of the training offers from the country that corresponds to the language that he she has chosen to view the site training offers from Finland 1f the user is viewing the Finnish version of the site 6 4 Graphic design The graphic design is based on the overall website theme and follows the same font type and colours The main theme is based in blue and orange colours that did not cause beta testers and pilot participants any problems The compasses that demonstrate the results in the test of interests went through different improvements in order to end up with the final version which was reported to be modern descriptive and meaningful in the sense that the entire concept is based on the compass The compasses constitute the only graphics along with the homepage banners that are based on flash This was decided as flash is considered poor in terms of accessibility Special 2010 11 27
40. tles IDEC SM RR aan test results page much white space IDEC Fixed Check career test smarty test lang smarty test results page French text has to be slightly changed IDEC _fr php Fixed lf you press on the logo you end up in the hope page but in the career english version You should be redirected to the national test version that you are taking the test Printing Data to include datestamp date and time of taking the test picture of compass results sector text related job profiles page number no xx xx logo of project disclaimer career Questions and answers will not be included but keep the code test results page because partners might change their minds 2010 11 27 Fixed N co NI N o O1 Fixed Fixed Fixed Fixed IDEC Fixed IDEC EE Fixed RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 20 of 32 Take information about which language to use in the career career test from the website Allow though user to change language is test he she wishes to keep the drop down list CLER finished Added translation tag option please select on plugins test lang test en php must be added to other test php IDEC translated finished IDEC a finished training Ecrire training database offers edit Add the possibility to erase a training offer IDEC career test User info page Finnish email addresses ending with fi are not accepted 98 training All drop down lists to begin wi
41. wing the website in Spanish then the career test will also be in Spanish If the user wishes to change the language of the texts he she can click at the top drop down list and choose one of the available language versions To continue to the career test he she must click on the Proceed to the Test button at the bottom of the page The question pages are the heart of the career test Based on the answers the user gives to the questions the tool will suggest the renewable energy sector s that best suit s the user along with the related job profiles The user will be presented a set of 30 questions If based on the answers the system identifies more than one suitable sector then 5 more questions will be presented The questions are chosen from a pool of 116 questions so a user can take the test more than once and answer different questions each time The questions are of multiple choice type and the user has the possibility to choose only one answer out of the two options provided In order to continue the user has to click on the Next button 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 8 of 32 If the user wishes to change an answer he she can navigate to that question by clicking on the Previous button Engin I OW ae Xe eT E o AI S Welcome to the RES Compass career orientation test you are think rig about our Tubure amd are cons denng a career in the emergi iQ area Of ren
42. you decide en your next steps Good luck and have funi gt a snraanin Paq A a i Question 29 Select the phrase that best desonbes you C rro good at idenbfying in advance problermis or risks associate to a task actian and can take the necessary action For example before going camping AOU Check mac thee pent rs in goad comd amp exan C rrr abes T Earn things On my Dv withiaut the help of teacher The results are presented in both graphical and textual way e A compass points to one or two suggested sectors out of the four different sectors e Text stating which sector s is are the most suitable for you In this page the user can also find the list of the job profiles that this sector includes The user can click on the profiles in order to be transferred to the job profile page 2010 11 27 RES COMPASS D4 1 Report of beta testing of tool Page 9 of 32 Technicians Manufacturing amp Construction and Operation amp Maintenance Business Development Executives Buxincss developeient amp sales asd marketing amp media Technical Design Consultants amp Researchers Technical Comaltancy Design anal RRD Engineering Energy amp Regulation Advisors amp Trainers Petey Planning advice and nergy management amp frice m ning The Fhenewable Energy Sector which you roa e most suited bo rs TECHNICIANS MANUFACTURING amp CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION amp MAINTENANCE Below you va
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