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84 pages. Last updated September 2008.
A detailed, easy-to-read, structured guide to Techsmith's Morae 3 including:
- Expert tips on issues like how to moderate and log simultaneously.
- Warnings about usability "gotchas" that can cause you to lose your recording.
- How to use Morae in various testing scenarios like a portable test lab and a multi-room setup.
- How to use the "AutoPilot" feature to run unmoderated usability tests.
- Step-by-step walkthroughs to teach yourself about Morae's key functions.
- Exercises and activities that you can carry out to learn the program.
- Checklists that you can use to confirm you're using Morae to its full potential.
- Free update when the next edition is published.
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After you study and apply this guide to Morae, you will be able to:
- Confidently use Morae Recorder to set up and record a usability test, capturing clickstreams and picture-in-picture video.
- Create video recordings that you can hand to observers the instant the participant has finished.
- Customise Morae's marker terminology so that it matches your own.
- Use Morae's built-in survey tool to collect end-of-test participant ratings and comments.
- Log and observe important moments in a usability test.
- Quickly analyse data, calculate usability metrics, and create graphs.
- Assemble graphs and important moments from the recording into a highlights video to share those "ah-ha!" moments.
- Export your results to Excel and quickly create a bug list to hand to the development team.
- Use keyboard shortcuts to work faster.
- Use Morae to do more than just create highlights videos.
Here is the full list of contents for this detailed, 78-page guide to Morae
- Preface
- Lesson 1 Introduction to Morae
- Lesson 2 Planning a usability test
- Describing the study
- Defining the tasks
- Setting up data logging
- Setting up the post-test survey
- Planning a Usability Test: Checklist
- Lesson 3 The pilot test
- Checking the picture-in-picture camera
- Multi-camera setup
- Checking the audio
- Making a test recording
- Connecting to the test machine with Observer
- Defining capture options
- Checking disk space
- The Pilot Test: Checklist
- Lesson 4 The usability test
- Greeting the participant
- Starting the recording
- Coding the participant's behaviour
- Saving the recording file
- The Usability Test: Checklist
- Lesson 5 Running on AutoPilot
- How it works
- How to set up an AutoPilot test
- AutoPilot: Checklist
- Lesson 6 Identifying usability problems
- Cleaning up the behavioural observations
- How to find and review the usability problems
- Lesson 7 Measuring usability
- Logging each task
- Choosing the most appropriate usability metric
- Which measure is right for me?
- Lesson 8 Presenting the data
- Exporting the list of usability problems to Excel
- Creating screen shots
- Developing a highlights video
- Archiving the Morae file
- Lesson 9 Becoming an expert
- How do I...?
- Short articles on Morae
- Help improve this guide
- Appendix 1 Usability test tasks
- Appendix 2 Usability test tasks: Step-by-step
- Appendix 3 Morae Manager keyboard shortcuts
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