Transcript information technology proposal

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROPOSAL
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY’S BEST CHANCE FOR
USING IT TO ENHANCE TEACHING & LEARNING
PRESENTED BY: SECTION 1 – GROUP 4
MR. SKYLER VANDER MOLEN
MR. CEDRIC NABE
MR. MICHAEL WABISZEWSKI
MR. WILLIAM DAVENPORT
MR. CHRISTOPHER CORDERO
INTRODUCTION
•Definition:
– Very useful tool
– Facilitate team work
– Allow storage of files up to 1GB
Only students from the College of Information and College of
medicine have access to it.
•Plan:
– Implementation of the content collection tab via Blackboard to
all the students at FSU
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
•Problem:
– Most students are complaining on the usability of the content
collection tab.
•Survey:
– We interviewed 65 students from the class LIS3353 on
November 8, 2006.
•Solution:
– After interpreting the result of the survey we came up with 3
main recommendations.
•Improve the navigation
•Integrate a calendar
•Set permissions to web folder
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
•Findings & Analysis
•Recommendations
•Conclusion
OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
FINDINGS & ANALYSIS
•Began by familiarizing ourselves with the Content
Collection
•Quickly identified a number of features lacking in
the Content Collection
•A great concept, that can be even greater!
•But what does everyone else think?
–Wanted to see what others thought
–Conducted survey of 65 IT students in LIS3353
–Asked the following questions…
FINDINGS & ANALYSIS
FINDINGS & ANALYSIS
1. How familiar are you with the Content Collection
System?
2. How easy do you think it is to use the Content
Collection System?
3. How effective do you feel the current Navigation
of the Content Collection System is?
4. What do you like about the Content Collection
System?
5. What don’t you like about the Content Collection
System?
FINDINGS & ANALYSIS
THE SURVEY
•One of first things we looked at were dislikes
–What can we improve?
FINDINGS & ANALYSIS
THE SURVEY
# of Students
FINDINGS & ANALYSIS
DISLIKES OF CONTENT COLLECTION SYSTEM
•We’re on to something!
•Obviously the usability is of the utmost importance
•Secondly, the navigation needs to be fixed
–90 % of those surveyed said the CCS was hard to use
–86% said the Navigation was hard to use
–These are IT students, what will happen when the general
public uses the CCS?
•So, what can we do to fix it?
FINDINGS & ANALYSIS
THE SURVEY
RECOMMENDATIONS
•Improved Navigation allowing faster and more
efficient navigation through files.
•Improved integration of Content Collection System
with Blackboard through a calendar module
improving user experience and value.
•Improved permissions settings in the Web Folder
enabling quicker and more efficient permissions
settings.
RECOMMENDATIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
•The current navigation is confusing and hard to use.
RECOMMENDATIONS
IMPROVED NAVIGATION
•Prototype Navigation
RECOMMENDATIONS
IMPROVED NAVIGATION
•Currently the calendar goes unused by most
•We want to change that
•What is the calendar?
RECOMMENDATIONS
CALENDAR MODULE
RECOMMENDATIONS
CALENDAR MODULE
RECOMMENDATIONS
CALENDAR MODULE
•So what can we do to fix this?
•What would the new calendar look like?
RECOMMENDATIONS
CALENDAR MODULE
November 06
Sunday
Monday
October 29
Tuesday
30
Wednesday
31
Thursday
November 1
Friday
Saturday
2
3
11:00 - 12:15
LIS3021 Lab - Work on
Project
5
6
12:59 - 12:59
LIS3021 Merting Minutes
15 & Agenda Due
12:59 - 12:59
LIS3021 Project Plan
Update 2 Due
12
13
12:59 - 12:59
LIS3012 Team/Teammate
Assessment 3 Due
12:59 - 12:59
LIS3021 Short Report Due
19
7
8
10:30 - 10:30
LIS3021 Chap 13 Quiz Due
Before Class
14
20
12:59 - 12:59
LIS3021 Good News
Messgae Due
21
15
27
10
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FSU vs. Western Michigan
- Homecoming
23
29
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FSU vs. Florida
30
08:00 - 08:30
LIS3021 Class
Presentations
18
12:59 - 12:59
LIS3874 Milestone 3 Due
Thanksgiving Holiday Party Time
10:00 - 10:00
LIS3021 Chap 7 Quiz Due
Before Class
11
FSU vs. Wake Forest
11:00 - 12:15
LIS3021 Class
Presentations Suckers
11:00 - 12:15
LIS3021 Read Chap 8
Before Class
26
9
11:00 - 12:15
LIS3021 Lab - Work on
Group Project
10:00 - 10:00
LIS3021 Chap 6 Quiz Due
Before Class
4
12:00 - 14:00
FSU vs. Virgina
December 1
2
RECOMMENDATIONS
EXAMPLE CALENDAR
•What is the Web Folder?
•Again, a great idea that can be improved upon
RECOMMENDATIONS
WEB FOLDER PERMISSIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
WEB FOLDER PERMISSIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
WEB FOLDER PERMISSIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
WEB FOLDER PERMISSIONS
SUMMARY
•Content Collection is a very useful tool for both
Students and Faculty, which allows file storage and
sharing among peers.
•However, Content Collection lacks usability.
•Needs features such as an enhanced navigation
system, a calendar module, and more efficient
methods of setting file/folder permissions.
•If improvements in usability are made, then
Content Collection will be more appealing to the
users.
SUMMARY
IN CONCLUSION…