QUESTION
Will parents or students be involved in future simulation tests for NYC Public Schools?
1:28:51
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NYC Public Schools plan to conduct initial simulations in a lab environment with the possibility of involving parents or students in user testing.
- Initial simulations to be done in a lab, with potential for parent or student involvement in user testing.
- Scott Strickland mentions automated transactions but acknowledges the possibility of real user testing.
- Emma Vadehra highlights ongoing performance testing with IBM and considers the feasibility of broader system tests involving all users.
- Council Member Rita C. Joseph emphasizes the importance of adapting educational systems for remote learning.
Rita C. Joseph
1:28:51
In your future simulations, are you planning to invite parents or students to be part of it?
Scott Strickland
1:28:56
So we'll first do that in the lab, and then we could either have them be part of a team logging in in that lab environment, which is most typically the transaction loads are done again through an automated engine that creates those transactions.
1:29:12
So we could easily do user testing in that same environment.
1:29:16
To show that if if we had a hundred people and they all hit enter at the same time, they all got through.
Rita C. Joseph
1:29:24
So you're basically telling me you do have a plan.
1:29:26
Moving forward, New York City parents will not be calling us.
1:29:31
So the next snow day snow days and remote learning is here to stay.
1:29:34
It's not gonna go anywhere.
1:29:35
We just like we agree that Zoom, Google, Teams, they're all here.
1:29:38
They're not gonna go anywhere.
1:29:39
They're part of our lives forever.
1:29:42
So we just have to learn to adapt and adjust and operate the system so we can meet the needs of the parents.
1:29:47
Because you had a lot of panicking parents that morning.
1:29:52
So I think you were gonna say something Emma?
Emma Vadehra
1:30:00
Yes.
1:30:00
I was going to say in terms of testing going forward, so we're doing all the load testing, the performance testing, we can we can do with IBM.
1:30:07
We are still thinking through whether to do a full system tense that includes all of our users or not, as was mentioned, the industry standard is for the testing of the system itself.
1:30:17
Is to do the performance testing we're doing in the lab.
1:30:20
And it is a heavy lift and a big ask to ask all of our families and teachers to take that on.
1:30:25
So we're thinking that room.
Rita C. Joseph
1:30:29
Okay.
1:30:29
Thank you.
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