SUMMARY:
June 1st, 2016 - July 28th, 20016
Task 1: 8 pages including cover/sources
Task 2: 8 pages including cover/sources. 4 page Usability Test Plan. 3 page revised instructions.
Task 3: 4 page TOC (including cover page), 4 sample pages, 8 slide presentation
Total: 31 pages + 8 slide power point. All tasks accepted on the first attempt!
June 8th, 2016
Task 1 is completed, accepted on first attempt. The task is fairly simple, not bad at all. I chose a 6 page section out of the manual for my Netgear Nighthawk X4 router, focusing on FTP Storage Setup and accessing outside the local network. Not having complete prior knowledge to the processing document helps as you view it from a different angle this way.
June 15th, 2016
Task 2 has been frustrating to get started. I had to send the course mentor a few e-mails because I couldn't find an example of what the Usability Test Plan should look like. Thankfully she was able to help and I completed that tonight and had a novice user test the horrible Google Sheet document they have you test with and then redesign. Tomorrow I'm going to take the results of the test plan and redesign the technical document and write the paper. Hopefully will submit tomorrow, Friday at the latest. If all goes well (it never does), I'll have this class completed this weekend. It would be my fastest completed class at just 2.5 weeks. Realistically, I could see someone completing this class in a week, easily, but I've been busy with other things. #life, ha.
June 19th, 2016
Submitted Task 2 on the 16th and got word this morning that it was accepted, first attempt! Once I figured out how to make the Usability Test Plan, thanks to the course mentor, the task was cake, and fun! I thought my revised document was great, toot toot. Next up, Task 3 and this class is done. Task 3 looks like a monster, but hoping to complete it by Tuesday night and have this class official done by the weekend!
June 27th, 2016
Received and exciting e-mail today from WGU. I'm receiving Excellence Award for my work on Task 2. I'm pretty stoked about this because I thought the task was done really well, my best work yet, and now this lets me know that I was right, yay!
June 28th, 2016
Submitted Task 3 on the 26th and just got word back that it passed, first attempt, woot! The task wasn't even remotely as long or bad as I thought it would be. It was broken into three sections, each submitted as separate documents, all submitted at the same time though. The three files were my Table of Contents, my sample pages, and my presentation power point. The Pearson text books give great examples of what you need to do for the TOB, and the sample pages you already know what to do as you did the same thing in Task 2.
My sample pages were "only" 4 pages long, BUT, I covered 5 sections. The sections included step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to guide the users.
That's a wrap, on to Advanced Networking Technology!
Update: Received an email stating that I receiving another Excellence Award, this time for my work on Task 3! Apparently I'm pretty good at Technical Writing, haha!
