Reading Course Materials

What is the user need?

Students taking a law school course whose materials will be on H2O will be spending many hours reading cases and texts on the platform. They need to have a clear, easy to navigate way to move through the materials, interact with annotations, and move from one section to the next without disrupting the flow of their studying.

Other readers include faculty reading their fellow instructors' materials (for ex. to determine whether or not to utilize that book for their own course), and others reading items on the site for their own self-driven legal education or to view a particular case opinion.

How does H2O address this need?

H2O gives the student, or interested reader, a clear, non-distracting flow between cases and texts. Cases/texts can be easily scrolled through and annotations interacting with, and when one is done with a section there's a button to jump back to the contents view, or move forward to the next text (or back to the previous).

H2O's print/export also outputs a readable DOC if the student or individual wants to read the materials on paper instead of on screen. The export includes titles of each item, as well as section titles and a table of contents.