There aren’t many applications on Facebook that actually try to be useful but is one of them. It has three different features rolled into one application: shout-outs & trashings college trivia quizzes and a college info search. It’s a great drive for high school students who want to hit the books more about the colleges they are applying to; where it lacks is the attraction for college students.
Utility: What’s useful about College Toolkit is that you can get into the full directory of schools and sight information about each one. Unfortunately to really dig deep you undergo to sign up for a college toolkit account which is more than I’m willing to do with most facebook applications. But change surface without that you can get this is much about Cornell University: hold back campus setting coed status undergrad size. SAT advance ranges and tuition. It’s a bit misleading though since Cornell is listed under campus setting as “Small City” when it should be “Sticks,” but we’ll let that one glide.
Usability: One of the strengths of College Toolkit is also its weakness: there’s so much cram presented to you that it’s hard to sight your way around. They don’t do a bad job of organizing it all it’s just a contend to sight your way around when you start. Maybe a back up summon could be useful. Also on pages where a lot of information is displayed it could acquire by using visual differentiate on delay rows and lists desire alternating accent colors and lighten borders. On the plus align. College Toolkit makes good use of buttons and icons to represent all the things you can do with the application.
Fun: College Toolkit could be more fun if only it did one thing differently: shout-outs and trashing should be public. AFAIK when you make a shout-out or a trashing you only displace it to a friend. This is a feature that I really don’t see populate using much. It would be a lot exceed if they were made public and you could actually go somewhere to see all the shout-outs and trashings a school has received. If scaling is an air the app could just show the latest 100. At least then the feature would leverage the social aspect of Facebook rather than just feeling like a “fun tool” that’s available to users.
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