Redefining Learning: Designing the revision feature for Byju's app

The revision feature saw 40% adoption and 75% return engagement, boosting completion rates and enhancing learning outcomes.

User Experience Design

UI Design

Created for

Byju's (Edtech)

Timeline

4 months

Collaborated with

Product Managers, Developers and Leadership

Product Managers,

Developers and Leadership

About BYJU'S

Byju’s, India’s leading edtech platform, transforms learning with interactive, personalised digital experiences. It makes education accessible for students of all ages, from school learners to professionals. Here are its key offerings for 4th to 8th graders.

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Background

Learn, Revise & Practice are the 3 pillars of studying- this is pretty intuitive and has been validated across multiple user studies that the team did in the past year.

In the existing learning app, we have a defined path for students for personalised learning, practice and assessment through learn journeys, video library, games and quizzes. But when it comes to revision, we do not have a defined path for students on the app that can help them revising their learnings.

In this scenario, students tend to skim through the library videos on app or use other modes of revision material like class notes, study material which result in students not using the Byju’s app and rather deviating in order to revise from other resources.

"We want to make byjus learning experience holistic, thus aiming at providing all the learning capabilities within the app, even revision!"

"We want to make byjus learning experience holistic, thus aiming at providing all the learning capabilities within the app, even revision!"

We want to figure out channels on our app through which students can be engaged and appealed the most. This would help us get more organic installs.

Validating the need of Revision

We performed an initial survey among the students to determine the need for revision. The quantitative insights we got from the survey were :

Around 40.6% and 48% of 90 students go through study material or important points and hand written notes respectively as mode of revision.
Around 18.5% and 31.6% of the 90 students revise on daily and weekly basis respectively where as 17.6% and 22% revise just before the class tests and major exams respectively.

Various student centric methodologies were adopted to unravel the hidden meaning of ‘revision’ for students. 23 students were interviewed across 9 states of the country.

The interviews revolved around getting insights from the students on the following main questions:

These research insights helped us understand that we were biased in thinking that revision is just note-taking. In reality revision is a lot more, and note taking is just a component within revision.

These research insights helped us understand that we were biased in thinking that revision is just note-taking. In reality revision is a lot more, and note taking is just a component within revision.

We want to figure out channels on our app through which students can be engaged and appealed the most. This would help us get more organic installs.

Modes of revision among students

We gathered the following insights from the research conducted :

Students relied on digital notes, YouTube videos, flowcharts/mind maps.
Various WhatsApp groups for doubt solving and note sharing during examinations.
Use of diagrams for visualisation of concepts.
Highlighting important stuff and marking important questions in textbooks.

We also understood a mental model of the students which helped us empathise with them better.

Interpreting the Data

Pain Points

User Revising Patterns and Needs

We inferred that revision would be a valuable feature, as it was needed at different times by the students.

Daily/Weekly revision

This will be the place where the students can recall the important points in a concept/set of concepts (Sub parts of each topic) that were learned in the class. The magnitude of content could be little in depth which can help the students recall and retain their learnings.

Exam Revision

This is the place where the students can recall all the important points at a chapter level just before the exam. The content here should give an overview of all the important points that a student would require just before the exams.

The formats were decided based on these segregation for the students to decide from which student wants to study.

Final Solution

Pre-Quiz : Discovery Phase

Pre-Quiz : Exploratory Phase

Feature Discovery

The user can click on a particular subject in order to revise the corresponding chapter

We also utilised Scarcity and impatience, the core drive of creating a sense of urgency and excitement. It is about making users feel like they need to act now or miss out

The user land on the subject landing. Now she can select the chapter to revise

Chapter Landing Page

The user can now navigate to the newly defined Revision tab within the chapter landing page.

Within Revision Feature

The user can select either mode of revising the chapter - Quick Bytes, Summary and Important Questions

Quick Bytes

This section covers all important points at a concept level which are required to revise a concept quickly.

The cards can be of three form: only text; only image or text + image as shown.

Interaction: The quick bytes act as a stack of cards. The user can simply swipe on the deck in order to access the next card.

The card can be bookmarked by the user for revisiting the imp concepts again while revising.

Problem addressed: Its easier for the students now since they need not make digital notes of chapter level concepts.

Summary

This covers all important points at a chapter level which are required to revise the chapter from an exam stand point of view. - more detailed than quick bytes

Problem adressed: Now students gain access to resources in order to revise a chapter.

Important Questions

The Questions provided under the revision feature would help the user to revise all the important and expected questions from exam point of view.

User can click on View Solution to see the answer of the question. The solution can have text, video or both.

Problem addressed: Since revision of all chapters is overwhelming for the user, thus, user can atleast go through the important questions that can be asked and thus revise all related concepts.

Bookmarks

The idea behind bookmarks is that while studying revision notes on app, the student can easily bookmark a particular element.

This feature resonates with annotation which students usually do while studying something (as stated in research)

While there are different types of content - quick byte card, summary material and imp question, bookmarked within the tab, for toggling easily between these different modes within the tab, there is a floating menu option.

Insights and Metrics

The feature has been in the market with 40% of the BYJUs App users. These were some of the early insights we got.

20% of the Byjus app’s homepage users are using revision
75% of the users who had used revision on Day 0 are returning back and using revision
Average completion rate of quick bytes (users who had started and completed quick bytes within a topic) is approx. 54% and this is increasing day by day.

The feature has been in the market with 40% of the BYJUs App users. These were some of the early insights we got.

20% of the Byjus app’s homepage users are using revision
75% of the users who had used revision on Day 0 are returning back and using revision
Average completion rate of quick bytes (users who had started and completed quick bytes within a topic) is approx. 54% and this is increasing day by day.