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Observation, a diagnostic plan, and a qualified-help handoff fully satisfy the course; no repair attempt or second person is required.", "assignments": [ { "title": "Care and wear audit", "dueWeek": 2, "brief": "Document one object or condition, its history, visible wear, current function, sources, safety limits, and whether care, repair, referral, or replacement is responsible." }, { "title": "Diagnostic decision tree", "dueWeek": 4, "brief": "Turn observations into a decision tree that separates evidence from guesses and includes stop-work, escalation, materials, cost, and waste considerations." }, { "title": "Illustrated care manual", "dueWeek": 6, "brief": "Produce a usable manual with ordered steps, diagrams or descriptions, safety boundary, sources, maintenance schedule, accessibility assets, revision date, and correction path." } ], "weeks": [ { "week": 1, "title": "Read the Wear", "question": "What can an ordinary object tell us before we decide it is broken?", "sourceShelf": [ "On-page wear audit: record dirt, wear, looseness, damage, missing parts or information, normal aging, current function, prior changes, and one unknown", "Manufacturer care labels and maintenance schedules", "On-page system sketch: object, user, energy or input, moving or joined parts, environment, maintenance history, failure effect, and responsible keeper" ], "studio": "Follow a guided visual audit that distinguishes dirt, wear, looseness, damage, missing information, and normal aging.", "fieldTask": "Choose one low-risk object or shared-place condition and record five observations without taking it apart.", "publicReceipt": "A private or shareable condition card with image or sketch, object history, five observations, and one unanswered question." }, { "week": 2, "title": "Know When Not to Touch", "question": "When is maintenance appropriate, and when should a learner stop, refer, or replace?", "sourceShelf": [ "Product safety labels, warranties, and service manuals", "Right-to-repair and local disposal guidance", "On-page stop rule: do not proceed with electricity, gas, structure, medical or vehicle safety, pressure, heat, hazardous material, weapons, law uncertainty, missing instructions, or any task beyond the learner’s competence" ], "studio": "Use a risk matrix to classify a task as observe, maintain, attempt, seek qualified help, or retire responsibly.", "fieldTask": "Complete the care and wear audit, locate two reliable sources, and write a stop-work boundary before considering any intervention.", "publicReceipt": "A decision note naming the responsible next step, supporting evidence, sources, and safety boundary." }, { "week": 3, "title": "Diagnose Before Buying", "question": "What small test can distinguish a likely cause from an attractive guess?", "sourceShelf": [ "Failure-mode and fault-tree examples", "Before-and-after documentation conventions", "Reuse, replacement, and total-cost comparisons" ], "studio": "Build a hypothesis table linking each observed symptom to a possible cause, safe test, result, and next decision.", "fieldTask": "Run only reversible, low-risk checks or document the checks a qualified person would need to perform.", "publicReceipt": "A diagnostic table showing observation, hypothesis, test or referral, result, uncertainty, and next action." }, { "week": 4, "title": "Make the Instructions Legible", "question": "Can another person understand the care sequence without borrowing the author’s assumptions?", "sourceShelf": [ "Exploded diagrams, parts lists, and step-sequence examples", "Plain-language and accessible-instruction guidelines", "Photo, caption, and alt-text practices" ], "studio": "Translate the diagnostic process into an ordered decision tree using verbs, checkpoints, diagrams or descriptions, and stopping conditions.", "fieldTask": "Finish the diagnostic decision tree and create one visual version plus a complete text-only equivalent.", "publicReceipt": "The decision tree with estimated time, materials, costs, access notes, and stop-work points." }, { "week": 5, "title": "Test the Manual", "question": "Where does an instruction fail when its author is no longer there to explain it?", "sourceShelf": [ "Use the cold-read steps in the solo toolkit and test prerequisites, order, verbs, diagrams, safety stops, recovery from error, cost, and qualified-help route", "Version notes and correction logs", "Maintenance intervals and spare-parts records" ], "studio": "Set the draft aside, then conduct the cold-read printed in the solo toolkit and revise at least three failures; another tester is welcome but never required.", "fieldTask": "Run every safe step or simulate it on paper, mark ambiguity and missing prerequisites, and revise at least three points.", "publicReceipt": "A private or shared test log showing what confused the reader, what changed, and what still requires qualified help." }, { "week": 6, "title": "Leave a Care Trail", "question": "What would help the next keeper maintain this object or condition instead of beginning again?", "sourceShelf": [ "Open repair-manual and portable archive patterns", "On-page source note: author or maker, title or label, model if relevant, date, page or section, where found, access date, rights, and which step it supports", "Local library, tool-lending, and repair-café directory examples" ], "studio": "Assemble the manual, run final safety and accessibility checks, and create a maintenance date and correction path.", "fieldTask": "Finish the illustrated care manual and save a portable source package that another learner could revise.", "publicReceipt": "Completed manual or private equivalent with credits, sources, revision date, maintenance interval, and handoff note." } ], "archiveWorkNumber": "649", "archiveCategory": "CARE + MAINTENANCE", "connectsFrom": [ "UES-101", "UES-102", "UES-105", "UES-108" ], "budgetUsd": 3450, "addedProductionNeed": "Optional professional safety review, accessible diagram examples, and low-risk repair micro-kits; none is required for independent completion.", "boundary": "Low-risk observation and care only. No electrical, gas, structural, medical, vehicle-safety, hazardous-material, weapon, or unlawful work; stop for every condition named in the on-page stop rule or whenever a source or product label requires qualified help.", "human": "https://pointcast.xyz/ues/repair-manual-care-maintenance-everyday", "catalog": "https://pointcast.xyz/ues", "fundingProgram": "https://pointcast.xyz/university-of-el-segundo", "participation": { "status": "active", "deliveryMode": "self-paced", "start": "anytime", "durationModules": 6, "learnerPriceUsd": 0, "requirements": { "account": false, "application": false, "deadlines": false, "liveAttendance": false, "wallet": false } }, "progressPolicy": { "storage": "local-browser-only", "syncsToServer": false, "identityStored": false, "learnerArtifactsStored": false, "note": "Only completion choices and timestamps are saved in this browser. 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