Interview with ITS & FOCUS GROUPRegarding Course Registration System

Jiyoung Mun

The results of interview with ITS Date of interview held: March 23rd, 2007

Participants Director of ITS External Consultant

The purpose of the meeting To gather requirements/ suggestions/ feedbacks

Overview of the interview with ITS Indication of the possibility to override rules

How to manage priority in waiting lists

What happens to a student on the waiting list when the spots are available?

What is the maximum number of waiting lists a student can be listed?

Does a student want model schedule to guide his or her selection?

How can the system make the difference between courses taken and required courses?

Requirements/Suggestions Possibly define and propose multiple course schedules to the

students Depending on

Major Class standing Time Professor Requirements

Create a waiting list Participant would automatically get into the class he or she

desires Give priorities according to his or her major and the course

required for class standings

Considerations/Requests Considerations

Overrides Administration Faculty ITS

Requests A place to store override actions and possibly reversal of these

action Define the priority for waiting list placement, whether it be class

standing, whether the course is required for the major or other criteria

What is the maximum depending on the number of courses still need to be scheduled?

Part Ⅱ.Interview with

FOCUS GROUP

The Results from Focus Group Date held: April 3rd, 2007 Informed consent form

Purpose of the meeting To share opinions and to assess requirements on creating online

registration system To figure out the way to trust the system

Compare and confirm the current AUP registration system to online registration system

Participants Nilou Michaelr Hadrien Noah

Class standing

Senior Senior Junior Freshman

MajorInternational

EconomicsInternational

Business

Film/International

CommunicationsPsychology

Age 21 22 21 19

Sex Female Male Male Male

/ Full-time Full-time Full-time Full-time

Modification of Current

system Let students register and browse courses at the same time

Give indication of courses-full with the exact number

Give priority to certain percentage of students to register (e.g. by class standings or majors)

Search Parameters of online registration

system Time

Professor

Major

Ideal System If a course is required for a major, give priority to student in that

major

Keep add/drop available all the time until it closes (※ this can be different from what ITS have said)

Notify that the class is automatically registered for you (Give feedback if necessary)

No limits on how many waiting lists he or she is on

Booklists to be posted when registering

Buy books on online

Other ideals? Let student take courses with their friends Phone registration system

Out of prototype of our project

Any Questions?