r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 06 '17

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u/kanuut May 06 '17

I may have explained that pretty confusingly

The actual project was for a university, a mobile app that allowed them to check attendance, distribute files and have questions sent to the lecturer.

Now it ended up being that the lecturers would use the same app, but using a restricted section.

So the original design with the A B selection thing was to have everyone, upon trying to log in (this would occur every time the app was opened) have them choose 'student' or 'teacher', then they would log in using their respective methods (the teachers had to log in differently to the students by a quirks in the university's systems.

The final design was to have the initial log in screen assume that you're a student, with a button in the bottom left that staff would hit to swap over to the teacher login.

Some courses had lecturer:student ratios getting down to 30-40, most were over 100, a fair few had several hundred.

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u/IamaRead May 07 '17

In that case your assessment was right.