Golden College Project

IS3500 : Information Systems Design & Development

-Martin Schedlbauer

Anthony Kelley - Jackson MacKenzie - James Martinez - Alexa Ross

Project Charter

•Provide an affordable and cost-effective solution with maximized features

Affordability

•A solution that closely mimics a real classroom environment

•Easy to use interface for faculty and students

Usability

•Minimal maintenance and support so that no separate IT or Helpdesk divisions are required

Self-Maintenanc

e

Approach

Project Manager•Oversee and assign tasks•Responsible for status updates

Team Members•Work together as a group•Define individual roles for

smaller projects

Iterative Approach•Changing requirements•Mini-projects•Frequent, but agile management

WikiDot

Collaboration

Customization

File Sharing

Organization

Identifying User Profiles

General User

Students

Faculty

Requirements Elicitation Strategies

Brainstorming Interviews Surveys Prototype

Discover new insights through informal group discussion

Review Golden College's request and translate it into requirements.

Understand daily processes of faculty and students

Learn in-depth concerns and hopes of system

Personalized analysis

Large number of participants

Find trends from faculty and students

Reporting tools for analysis and comparisons

Golden College has little experience with virtual learning

Allow users to evaluate software before implementation

UI testing

Brainstorming

Data Model to understand how the system works

Identify essential processes

Identify and name all actors in the system

Interviews

Prepare

•Devise questions (brainstorming)

•Create template for continuity

Interview

•Follow guidelines set forth in class book

•Stick to the template and answer all questions

Analyze

•Compare interview results

•Extract requirements by looking for action verbs and requests

Surveys

Base questions off of interviews and brainstorming

Make sure questions are understandable

Used eSurveysPro.com for our software

Create Social networking (Facebook) to spread the survey

Diverse and random selection of students and faculty

Allowed 2 weeks for all users to take survey

DistributeUse reporting tool provided by website to analyze results

Find trends in the numbers and prioritize requirements

Review short answer questions and extract use cases

Analaye

Prototypes

Pros• Test user

interface• Free trials• Sample

systems

Cons• Not

representative of paid solutions

• Unrealistic expectations

Non-Functional Requirements•Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac OS X Tiger, and Mac OS X Leopard

Multi-Platform

•Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer (6-8)

Web Browser•32-bit and 64-bit machines

System Architecture

•Grades, emails, and files

Security

•Largest class size between 80-200 users

Capacity

•No extensive downloads or installations

Web Based

•Average student takes 12-16 classes per week

Multiple Classrooms

Gathered Use Cases

Most Important Features (Based on weighted importance)

Feature Importance

View Grades Online 5.84

File Sharing 4.21

Web-Based (No Downloads Required)

3.59

Collaborative Whiteboard

3.23

Math & Science Symbols Toolbar

3.18

Video Chat 3.17

Class Recording 3.05

Screen Sharing 2.84

Context Diagram (I/O)

Shows how the actors interact with the system (and vice versa)

Gives a general understanding of how the virtual classroom must function

Constraints

eGrading

Paid

Integrated with

classroom

Requires hosting

Free

Separate website

Hosting not

required

Gap Analysis

List available features

Compare Requirements & Prices

Match closest

result to our ideal

solution

Recommendation

Virtual Classroom:

WiZiQ

Free

Web Based, 500 user capacity,

Whiteboard, File Sharing

and Presentation,

Class Recording,

Symbols, Share Screen

Online Grading:

enGrade

Free

Assignments calendar, grade book, separate

courses and assignments, attendance

reports, teacher

administration

Pause for Prototype/Tour

http://www.wiziq.com/ Login

Username: jackson.mackenzie@gmail.com Password: isu3500

http://www.engrade.com Faculty Login

Username: GoldenCollege Password: isu3500

Student Login Username: JacksonMacKenzie Password: isu3500

Conclusion

Remaining IssuesPaid

Possibilities

Lessons Learned

• Trial the software with Golden College

• Receive final stakeholder input

• Full integration of virtual classroom and grading

• More professional layout

• Functioning as a team• Iterative project

development• Interacting with

stakeholders