Education / Mobile app
BeED field trip app: field trip companion app
A companion app for school field trips that holds the day-by-day schedule, the guided route, the reading for each stop, and the quiz that follows, and keeps working when the group loses signal.
What we did. Product design and mobile engineering on the BeED field trip companion app.
- Users
- Students and teachers on school trips
- Surface
- iOS and Android
- Scope
- Trip schedule, guided trails, location content, quizzes, offline mode
- Content shape
- Multi-day expeditions with numbered stops
The problem
A school trip is a lesson that happens away from the classroom, and the material for it usually stays behind: a printed itinerary, a worksheet, and a teacher repeating the same briefing at every stop. Coverage on site is unreliable, so anything that needs a connection fails at the moment students are standing in front of the thing they came to see. BeED wanted the trip content on the phone in the student’s hand.
What we decided
The calls that shaped the build, and what each one let people do.
- 1
Download the trip, then leave the signal behind
Trip content is stored on the device, and the app states plainly when it is running offline rather than failing on a request.
A class reads the stop material inside a museum or on a trail where the network drops.
- 2
The route is the navigation
Each trip carries an illustrated trail map with lettered stops, and each stop opens the reading, images and video for that place.
Students move through the site in order and open the right material at the right stop, without a teacher calling out page numbers.
- 3
Quiz attached to the stop it tests
Assessment sits inside the trip structure alongside the handbook, the logbook and the packing list, and tracks completion as students work through it.
Teachers see what a student took in while the trip is still fresh, instead of setting homework a week later.
What we delivered
Capabilities above are read from the delivered app.
- Multi-day trip schedules with timed stops per day
- Illustrated trail maps with lettered, ordered stops
- Location content with text, images and embedded video
- Quest structure covering handbook, preparation, packing list, passport and logbook
- Completion tracking across trip items
- Offline mode with an in-app indicator
- Adjustable text size for reading screens
We do not publish performance figures for this project. The records we hold describe what was built, not a measured before-and-after, and we would rather show the product than quote a number we cannot stand behind.
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