Target Audience

Who they are, what do they know, what do they need or want?

Users are graduate students in the history department. Both teacher and students have a positive attitude to technology. Using the site is not a class requirement but it is encouraged by the teacher. Students may post their reviews on the class site to allow a previous reading.
 
This characteristics made them active users that submitted contents, collaborate on testing and provided feedback.
 

Setting Goals

What do I do? what for?

Being a learning project one of the main objectives was to get experience in how to plan and operate a web page: learn different electronic formats and to understand their possible use in an archival field. However, the site needed to be functioning as soon as possible in order to serve the needs of a quarterly course. So the learning process and de development stages were simultaneously done.

Content

What is it about? what is it for? what can users do or learn?

The content was determined by the course structure:

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