Online Course Reserves

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Online Course Reserves

• Ciera Christopher
• Edith Koler
• Patricia Lin

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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

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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

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Search Course Reserves
? Clear affordances
? Clear Search
? Links to get more information
? Link to contact
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Old Missing Entry
? Not centered
? Table borders are ugly
? Table columns are unclear
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New Missing Entry
? Table is clear
? Color attracts user attention
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Old Professor with Multiple Courses
? Whats Num?
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New Professor with Multiple Courses
? Table makes sense
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Old View all Reserves
? What does the button do?
? Circular Links
? Too much information
? Whats this referring too?
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New View all Reserves
? Columns clearly defined
? Clearly defines what table displays
? Removed useless buttons
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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 ofWhats that about?
? Whats all this junk?
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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
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Old Permissions
? What number?
? Glad you gave me a choice
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New Permissions
? Clear where number is
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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