Course administration todayProblem and motivation

Director ofstudies

Group leader Administration

Teachers,students, etc.

Typical problems:• Different versions of excel files• Different types of excel files• Admin, teachers and students

lack info, or have incorrect info

Excel file

Excel file & verbally

Excel file & verbally

Verbally

Course administration systemSuggestion / wishes

Database

Director ofstudies

Group leaderAdmin.

Teachers,students, etc

Information regarding course instances

S locationS start periodS speed: full, half, quarterS day or evening courseS 1-n programs

– n.o. students/program– guaranteed/program

S course codeS credits

S level (A-D)S course nameS responsible labG 1-n teacher/lab ass.

– Scheduled time

A 0-1 application codeA enrolled studentsA throughput

S = Director of studies, G = Group leader, A = Admin.

Information regarding teachers

The group leader can manipulate information about the individual teachers:

– Full name – Signature (for example rjn)– Work distribution: education, research, other

(for example 75%, 25%, 0%)– Lab (CSL, CAL, SDL)

Course planning

• Assign teachers, lab assistants, etc. to course instances• Verify and show time for the teachers, compared to their

planned time• Planning:

– Start from an existing plan, or with an empty one

– Freeze (and save) a plan, and then continue

– Go back to one of the frozen plans

– Show the differences between several plans

Priorities• Good database design

• Some way to input the different types of data.

• Good, web based user interface for group leaders, supporting different scenarios

• Web page for viewing information (teachers, students, etc.)

• Web interface for administrators

• Web interface for number 2 above