Co-Op Student Evaluation Project

Meeting Minutes - 03/21/05

Addition to form
Change "N/A" to "none" on likart and double-likart questions.
After the Iteration 3 checkpoint is delivered, we are only going to have minor modifications to the system - there will be no major changes
It was agreed by Dr. Contomanolis, Dr. Naveda, and the team that any changes requested after that point will be up to the team to determine the impact that they will have on the system and whether or not they are feasible.
Testing focus
We have decided that it would be better for us to spend our testing time coming up with a thorough and detailed testing plan and doing system testing rather than going through formal usability testing. Dr. Contomanolis agreed that this was a good decision.
Dr. Contomanolis emphasized that it is very important for this project to have everything working as specified when deploying the system.
User and installation manuals
We are going to need to begin working on both the user and installation manuals for the system, since both are going to be required for deployment. It was agreed that an online user manual was a good solution for this system, and we will extend the existing manual created by the previous team.

Should add notes about default behavior
All of the default behavior should be explicitly specified on the search page. For example, there should be a note indicating how to use the quarter range or that it will search for all evaluations statuses if none of the status checkboxes are selected.
The data in the "Approved" column should be Yes/No rather than a bullet
Need to remove the hour from the last update dates
This should be system-wide — every place that uses the last update date should remove the time (hour and minute).
Add "All" option to departments search criteria
There should be a checkbox that allows you to search for all departments (available to the user). If the checkbox is selected, the user should not be able to select any individual departments (possibly disable the department list box).

We are planning on discussing whether or not we want to change the student view page to a row-based layout (rather than the current layout) at our next meeting.

Dr. Contomanolis stated that he doesn't like the idea of testing a new system by forcing end users to use it
He said that he is not concerned with having students on Spring quarter co-op use the system, but that he would like departments to begin to use it this quarter. He also mentioned that they might try contacting individual students on co-op at random and having them try the system.