Trouble with a Capital "T" and that Stands for Technology

We submitted the plan for our usability test last evening. It didn’t come without challenges. We divided the tasks and worked late on Friday night to attack the different pieces of the plan. While some of our team attended reviews on Saturday morning, a few others looked over the materials we collected and began synthesizing. We continued our synthesizing process as class began and then ran into technical problems.

We were storing the main document on my laptop and feeding completed pieces via a stick. An encryption software popped up on my computer. Later we tried to log onto the web to send the main document to my Texas Tech e-mail in order to print. However, I could not get access. We tried to burn the document onto a CD. That, too, failed. Thankfully, one of my teammates, Christine, came to the rescue. She assumed (correctly as we would soon learn) that the problem was the encryption software. She shut it down and was able to move the data back onto a stick and into a computer on a workstation in the room. We were then able to view the document for team editing. Ultimately, at around 7:00 p.m. Christine sent the plan to Dr. Still.

Now on to the next challenge.