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Made by Software Engineering Students at Lassonde School of Engineering (York University).
York University Look Up (YULookUp) is a Java-based application used to facilitate course referencing and student record-keeping. It will be used primarily by students to easily find course details.
The primary function of the tool is to serve as an easy-to-navigate course lookup. Similar to the current York University Courses website, YULookUp will allow users to find course descriptions based on department, year level and course codes.
The course lookup feature will be designed to match an interface everyone is extremely familiar with, the google search engine. Instead of bothering with figuring out the program’s setup, one can simply just begin typing into a search bar to find what they’re looking for, whether it being a course or the major.
The course lookup also features the ability to lookup courses based on a specific major and displays a visual overview of all the courses related to that major. With that visual display, students can also determine course prerequisites quickly by clicking on the course and having its prerequisites light up.
YULookUp will also contain an important aspect of User Profiles allowing tailored results within the program. With a built-in GPA calculator YULookUp will be able to calculate and store the GPA point scales, as well as provide the user with the ability to add more courses to update the GPA.
In the Iteration 1 prototype of the project, features mentioned above such as course lookup methods and a GPA calculator would be available for use. In future versions of the program, more tailored features such as yearly schedule builders that organize the courses the user has to take per year based on what they have taken so far, and an optimized platform to connect with Advisors.
The program will not only be used by students, but by advisors as well. Which is why one of the program’s vital features is the ability to export saved data the user has inputted, in order for an advisor to validate and help the students with more personal matters.
The use of this program would be a huge milestone for improving a student’s or advisor’s process during course enrollment. As during times such as the beginning or the end of the year when course enrolment is required, the ability to look up course information is vital. With the present course information site offered by the university, the amount of time wasted trying to navigate an ineffective interface and slow website hinders the ability for students to smoothly navigate through. Therefore our program is focused on improving the efficiency of course lookup.
The project’s success will be measured through a user satisfaction survey. Given that the program is focused on decreasing the amount of time it takes to access course information, if the amount of time the students’ take to look up courses has decreased then our program is succeeding. Finally, If the users prefer to utilize the program over the current basic option offered by the university then another successful milestone has been crossed.