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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.
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Morae for Usability Practitioners

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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