Teach.mozilla.org was released into the wild at the end of April, and we spent part of the last month doing a round of iterations based on early feedback.

The most notable iteration is the homepage. Our goals were to clarify the three main actions a user can take, incorporate the blog, and use more plain language across the page. Do you think we succeeded?

I want to share an updated short-term roadmap, so you can know what’s coming up in the immediate future:

• The next thing we’ll release is a revised workflow for new Clubs. The workflow reflects our evolving thinking about the organizing model. It will work like this: people will submit their Clubs on the site, they’ll then be connected with a Regional Coordinator who will work with the Club Captain to refine the description if necessary. Once approved, the Club will be visible to everyone who visits the site. For more on what a Regional Coordinator is, check out Michelle’s blog post.
• Next up: Since the three main actions require a pretty heavy lift for users, we want to provide a lower-effort action. We’re going to test out a “Pledge to Teach” action that simply allows the user to, well, pledge to teach the web in their community.
• Maker Party is right around the corner. We’ll be promoting it on the homepage, and making some changes to the Maker Party page itself, including adding case studies of successful parties, and linking to the recommended Maker Party activities for this year.
• The Clubs page will get a makeover soon, too. The goal is to provide better scaffolding for people who are thinking about starting a Club, as well as to provide a more useful experience for people who are running Clubs.
• We’ll keep on adding more curriculum as it’s tested and finalized!
• We’re starting the localization effort! Check out this globalization ticket for an overview of all the different pieces of this project.

I’ll blog about the medium-term roadmap soon!

http://hannahgrams.com/2015/06/01/teach-mozilla-org-update/