Transcript slides - Pace University

MASPLAS’02
Online Course Opinion Survey System
by
Saurabh Pethe, Richard Hennings, William Baker,
Nadine Brown, Shobhana Misra.
Agenda
 Introduction
 Design Model
 Tools Used
 Important Issues
 Demo
 Conclusion & Advantages
Introduction
Pace University has a course evaluation at end of every
semester. Assessment Dept. sends out paper based forms
to all courses.
Students fill the form, the forms are collected and sent
back to the Dept.
The distribution and collection takes about 1-11/2 week.
These forms are passed through a scanner, and then
results generated.
The result generation takes about a month.
A substitute to this method is Online Course Opinion
Survey System
Basic Design Model
Admin
Online
Survey
System
Results
Committee
Survey Taker
Basic Structure of Survey System.
Tools used
 ASP (Active Server Pages)
 Java script
 VB script
 HTML
 MS Access Database
 SQL(Structured Query Language)
Important Issues
 Easy to use (basic principle in any web application)
 Less information asked from User: The user should not be
prompted to enter a lot of information, like CRN for a course, or a
text based form.
 User Identity not considered : No student id or name is required.
Avoids multiple surveys taken by User: A pin number provided via
email to each student for each course.
 Less Time spent while taking the survey: Less pages to maneuver
and fast access to results
Links to the survey
Demo
Course Opinion Survey System
Administrator Interface
Advantages
 Provides up to date results
 Survey can be taken from anywhere
 Results are guide for future students to
select their courses
 Help Pace’s Distance Learning Program
Conclusions
Less manual work
Reduce paper work
Reduce data compilation
Change data storing techniques
Easy result generation
No user identity revealed
No multiple surveys
Questions ?