Contents of Sample Criteria & Weighting for Discussion Tool

Sample Criteria & Weighting for Discussion Tool

Navigation Features
(5 points) Can the user easily and reliably identify this tool and navigate to it.
(5 points) Can the user easily and reliably navigate to different items in this tool?
Reading Messages
(5 points) Can the user easily distinguish new threads?
(5 points) Can the user easily distinguish subthreads?
(5 points) Can the user easily distinguish replies?
(5 points) Can the user easily distinguish the parent message for a reply or sequence of replies?
(4 points) Are the filter options accessible?
Replying to Messages
(2 points) Can the user reply directly via external e-mail?
Message Discovery
(2 points) Can the user be notified about new posted messages?
(2 points) Does the discussion tool support RSS?
(5 points) Is the feature to subscribe/unsubscribe accessible?