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Explore refinements made to the Online Course Reserves system including improved search functionality, clear navigation, and user-friendly design enhancements. Tailored to optimize student experience.
                
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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
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
Search Course Reserves  Clear affordances  Clear Search  Links to get more information  Link to contact
Old: Missing Entry  Not centered  Table borders are ugly  Table columns are unclear
New: Missing Entry  Color attracts user attention  Table is clear
Old: Professor with Multiple Courses  What’s Num?
New: Professor with Multiple Courses  Table makes sense
Old: View all Reserves  What does the button do?  Circular Links  Too much information  What’s this referring too?
New: View all Reserves  Columns clearly defined  Clearly defines what table displays  Removed useless buttons
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?
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
Old: Permissions  What number?  Glad you gave me a choice
New: Permissions  Clear where number is
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