Page Comparison

Features (Trends)

• Autocomplete Searchbar to allow free input of courses, professors, etc.

  • Break into clearly defined search fields

• Present course grade distribution

  • Aggregated across semesters by professor

  • Course Eval Data

  • Clear presentation of Pass/Fail metric

  • Simplify data presentation as much as possible

  • Remove Box and Whisker

  • Course popularity (likely to fill up quickly)

  • Suggesting sections or professors that are related to current queries

  • Notification about when sections are open (Schedule Planner is real time, Coursebook delayed)

  • General Coursebook information (syllabus, etc.)

    • Extracting information from syllabus

      • # of assignments, percentages of different assignments, exams, etc. (NLP)

      • Adithya Chintala

  • Grade level needed to count as pre-req

  • Timing of course

• Present information about professors

  • Info drawn from RMP

    • Name

    • School

    • Difficulty

    • Rating

    • Would Take Again

  • Course Eval Data

    • Graphical representations of this data

  • NLP-based tagging system drawing on RMP or Review/Q&A in our own site

    • Specific qualities of a professor (go to office hours, curves heavily, etc.)

  • Data about which professors teach certain courses (Falls or Spring, etc.)

  • Professors' education, research interests, CV

    • Official University website

  • suggesting sections or professors that are related to current queries

• Important dates for registration

  • currently just in the academic calendar

• Reviews or Q&A within our site

  • Our own storage of user data (Platform)

• Easy sharing via URL

  • URL sharing for Planner users to jump to Trends

  • Links to other sites like Reddit or RMP

• Filtering

  • filtering out schools or subjects you just don't care about

  • filtering by class (freshmen, sophomore, etc.)

  • Offline vs Online

  • Filling fast

  • Difficulty level

  • Location

  • Filter by time (morning, evening, etc.)

Features (Skedge)

• RMP score (Rating)

• More data about professors

  • Course evals, other stuff from Trends

• Automation of course and professors selection based on Planner degree plan

• Notification about when sections are open (Schedule Planner is real time, Coursebook delayed)

• Grade distribution of latest course

Things to keep in mind

• Keep in mind the goal of each product

  • Why does someone use Trends?

  • Why does someone use Skedge?

• How do we determine the importance of a feature?

  • How many people does it bring it?

• Feature testing

  • Low fidelity user testing