#8 Graduation Planning (ETH)

[Adam Blinkinsop]

1 Ability to generate suggested courses and setup a
timeline.
2 Ability for a department head to add new courses or
remove old courses.
6 Ability to generate different freshman schedules
based on possible majors.
7 Ability to recognize fast track credits.
8 Allow quarters to be skipped.
9 Allow part time, full time and course overload.
10 Auto link to preview course descriptions and
prerequisites.
11 Department head has access to modify course
offerings, need of prerequisites and class size.
14 Ability to have double majors
15 Ability to enter advance placement credits
16 Ability to enter off campus credits
17 Access to grade replacement for failing grades to
indicate that a course has been passed.
18 Ability to recognize transfer credits.
19 Ability to substitute a class.
20 Ability to recognize major/minor change.
21 Ability to recognize dropped or added courses.
23 Course information and prerequisite information
available for viewing.
25 Ability for dept. head to add a new major or minor.
27 Ability to ‘preview” what if majors and minors
28 Graphical representation
30 Ability to save a scenario
31 Ability to identify course sequences for all majors
including prerequisites.
32 Ability to allow for co op or sitting out a quarter.
33 Ability for dept. head to drop an old major or minor.
34 Ability to take prerequisites at the same time as
course.
35 Ability to assign another advisor
52 Ability to view course name on the schedule grid
when the mouse is moved over the course number.
53 Ability for changes in the schedule to ripple
throughout the graduation plan as they are applied as
constraints.
54 Visual Queues: Show which courses have been taken:
area, fee, tech, or restricted elective.
56 Allow for “fixing” a quarter so that the ripple
affect will not change the specific quarter.
57 Use drop down boxes for area, tech and restricted
elective. (See Design Constraints)
58 Split Free Elective Selection into a separate screen
showing course prefix and course number. (See Design
Constraints)
59 Allow generic class prefix and number selection as
placeholders for humanities and tech electives. (See
usability)
60 Ability to add constraints to schedule via buttons
on the main schedule screen. (See Design constraints)