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What problem are we solving? (Pain points)
The data related to course selection is split across many different sourceso Difficulty in choosing courses and professors.
o Classes are always full. No way to know if a new class was added.
o Difficult to get Prof. reviews in one place.
o Difficult to get course reviews in one place.
o Easy way to obtain previous students’ opinions.
For whom? (Customers)
o For incoming & existing students of UTD
When do they experience this issue?
o During their course plan or at the semester beginning.
What data, research, and feedback do we have that explains this problem? (User Surveys, Customer Interviews)
o We have collected user surveys
o We have product’s beta version ready
o We have user testing data.
Which customers are we working with, or hearing from, to better understand this problem? (User Testing, Focus Groups)
o We are working with all types of students at UTD. So far we collected about 20 user testing data.
Why is solving this problem urgent? Why is it important?
o This helps reduce the time spent by students going through multiple websites like UTD Trends and Rate My Prof.
💭 Proposal
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How are we solving this issue?
o We plan to offer students the ability to view previous data about courses & professors in an organized manner and let them rate & review.
What alternatives did we consider?
o Alternative would be asking each professor individually, taking trial classes of those professors or creating an excel database
o Contacting Academic Advisor
Why did we land with this?
o It is much more accessible, scalable & intuitive.
What is the general shape of this solution?
o The solution is designed to be user-friendly, with a simple and intuitive interface that makes it easy for students to search and find the information they need.
o It contains reliable data to make decisions about the course or prof. selection.
Do you have any mocks, prototypes, or relevant comparisons in the market?
o We currently have a prototype. For comparison, there are UTD Grades and Rate My Prof.
How will we know that we’ve solved this issue?
o We will know when the course plan time has been reduced, and students’ academic performance has improved.
What will we measure?
o We will use data from user feedback, reviews, and ratings and ask specific questions regarding the satisfaction level and time taken.
Have we considered how we’re building this to be fast, performant, scalable, and/or relatively low-cost on our services?
o The Product & Services will be offered free of cost.
o We will be doing testing to identify issues & make the product fast & performant.
o The Product will be made scalable as it will use API based calls and the APIs will be documented.
🛫 Plan
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