1 / 15

Online Course Reserves

Online Course Reserves. Ciera Christopher Edith Koler Patricia Lin. Introduction to the System. The course reserves system allows students to: Search for course reserves by course or professor Find information on books stored in the reserve room Download copies of online reserves.

davidhjohnson
Télécharger la présentation

Online Course Reserves

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Online Course Reserves Ciera Christopher Edith Koler Patricia Lin

  2. Introduction to the System • The course reserves system allows students to: • Search for course reserves by course or professor • Find information on books stored in the reserve room • Download copies of online reserves

  3. Problems Identified • Our evaluation of the Online Course Reserves produced the following results: • Unnecessary text • Links that went to useless searches • Circular Links • Forced to download only one item at a time • Lack of color • Spacing made text difficult to read • Table borders were large and distracting • Ugly

  4. Search Course Reserves  Clear affordances  Clear Search  Links to get more information  Link to contact

  5. Old: Missing Entry  Not centered  Table borders are ugly  Table columns are unclear

  6. New: Missing Entry  Color attracts user attention  Table is clear

  7. Old: Professor with Multiple Courses  What’s Num?

  8. New: Professor with Multiple Courses  Table makes sense

  9. Old: View all Reserves  What does the button do?  Circular Links  Too much information  What’s this referring too?

  10. New: View all Reserves  Columns clearly defined  Clearly defines what table displays  Removed useless buttons

  11. Old: View Online Reserves  Too much work to download all  Useless Link  Table is unnecessary  Three Pages?!  Centering makes it difficult to read  “View image of:”…What’s that about?  What’s all this junk?

  12. New: View Online Reserves  Only two pages! Removed useless links  No extra table and text  User can select all for easy download  Easy to ready article titles

  13. Old: Permissions  What number?  Glad you gave me a choice

  14. New: Permissions  Clear where number is

  15. Evaluation of New System • Conducted same evaluation on 6 users. • No confusion by unnecessary text. • Users could not click on links that were confusing • Users could download multiple files • Color attracted users to important information • Information was easy to find

More Related