iHomework

By

Caitlin, Katie and Sadiyah

iHomework Who? Students and teachers

What? Students doing homework

When? Anytime

Where? Anywhere with internet connection

Why? Students struggling with homework, need help off

peers

Background

You leave your homework to the last minute but then don’t

understand it and you have no one to get help from.

Therefore you don’t complete it and get a detention.

Specific Problem

How can you get help with your homework when

you don’t have a peer or teacher to help at home?

Core Question

You need help with your homework, you ask one of

your parents or brother/sister, they don’t know

the answers because they haven’t been in your

class. You can contact one of your peers or a

teacher who have been in that class learning the

same thing.

Key Statement

Our team iHomework, are developing a mobile app to help

students who are struggling with homework to access help

through their peers and teachers through the use of social

networking.

Mini Pitch

Some of the things that I have learnt about my users are

that they wouldn’t be prepared to pay for this app, they

would rather have it for free yet have

Adverts. Some users said that if they were to pay for this

app then they would pay 69p. They have also said that

they think that it is a good idea and that they would

definitely use it if it was on the market and would

recommend it to other people.

Summarise

One of the most popular apps on the market is ‘HomeWork’.

It has a very high rating and is fairly similar to our app.

However, this app doesn’t fully solve the problem, it gives

resources to help you with you homework but doesn’t give

you easy contact to peers and teachers. This app doesn’t

help you as much as our app can. Our app will help you get

in contact with your peers and teachers for help. It does

provide resources but it helps a lot more than the

‘HomeWork'

Apps on the Market

Our app is completely focused around homework, but we feel

that our app is a more appealing way of getting help with

homework through social networking. Instead Of researching

for hours on end, they can just simply check their updates or

classes, and see who has completed the homework that they

are stuck on. Then, they could message them and the other

student could use the helpful tools and resources that we

provide to explain it the best possible way they can.

Students can organise their contacts into different classes if

they wish to.

Overview

Georgia is a 14 year old user of our app, she is really

struggling with her homework and her parents can’t help

her, she goes on the iHomework app, looks through her

contacts and sees that Katie has completed the homework.

She contacts her and Katie uses the useful tools to explain

it to her. Georgia can now successfully complete her

homework.

App Users

Our app is designed to help you with your homework through social networking. By connecting you to your fellow

students and teachers. It gives you other resources like

calculators and whiteboards etc. you can make group chats

with the people who are in your classes and ask them for

help. You would know who to ask as you can set your

statues to how you found the homework and it would let

your peers know who to ask. You can make your own profile

as well.

Flow

Our app collects data of the homework's you’ve completed

during the week and at the end of the week it makes pie

charts and graphs to show you the weeks homework’s. You

can share theses to Facebook and other social networking

sites. This way it advertises our app for free.

Data, Content and Technical

Feasibility

We have planned to make our app free but include

adverts of other apps. However, if we were planning to

make people to pay then we would charge about 69p.

Business Models

One of the three main marketing activities we will do is to

ask schools to start using it. This way the amount of users

using it, will increase as well as that the school will have an

increase of pupils finishing their homework on time and

understanding it. Also, we are going to advertise it on other

apps and advertise theirs on ours, that is if we are not

charging to buy the app. Including, we could ask networks

like Facebook and Twitter to promote it as we will promote

theirs by letting students share things from our app on to

the social networking sites.

Three Marketing Activities