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09/21/2023 - User Interviews

09/21/2023 - User Interviews

Name/Major/Year(undergrad)

Grad date

Do you plan your degree?

What do you do when it comes time to register for classes?

What difficulty you face while planning the degree

Do you planner/Shown the website

Suggestions

Name/Major/Year(undergrad)

Grad date

Do you plan your degree?

What do you do when it comes time to register for classes?

What difficulty you face while planning the degree

Do you planner/Shown the website

Suggestions

Pratham/Computer Science/Freshman

Radhika Aggarwal/ CS/Senior

2027


2024

yes

  • Degree plan online (Flowchart)

    Exel sheet format

  • Confused on what courses to take when

  • schedule planner is not proper

yes

  • add minor option as well for the course

  • agreement for the transcript upload

  • upload excel sheet for diff majors

  • core req validation

Alexa/undecided/Sophomore (2022)

2026

yes (Excel) - HR

  • Find class based on availability

  • UTD grades, coursebook, rate my professor

  • Not getting into class or the specific time

  • before enrollment finalize the classes

yes

Product is cool and will use it!

Michelle/undecided/SOPHOMORE/

2026

through a printout

  • Find class based on availability

  • UTD grades, coursebook, rate my professor

  • finding the right professor and the right time

yes

Liked the credit update feature

 

Name: Stu

Major: Computer Science

Year: Junior

Contact: spb210000@utdallas.edu

  • TCC 2020 transfer 2021 and lost all credits

  • First advisor was completely useless ended up having to contacting someone else

  • New advisor he was assigned to is fine

    • Responds to emails

    • Just gives them his NetID and they send him an annotated flow chart with classes crossed out already

    • When he first transferred to UTD, he had to reach out to an advisor that wasn’t assigned to him and they sent him something similar

    • Computer generated, excel file with stuff he needed to do, just ticking up things himself

  • If can be lazy will be very lazy

  • Sometimes will email advisors for their documentation

  • Went over the Excel sheet they sent him with his partner very carefully, highlighting courses he’s taken and still needs to take

  • Thinks it very important for students to have something that GUIDES them

  • Would be nice to have… describes an interactive flowchart idea

  • As international student he likes the credit tag warning

  • Biggest issue had was going through all the classes and all the prereqs and had to track

  • Finds flow chart easy to read and follow

 

Name: Nandhini Parthipan

Major: Biochem

Year: Freshman

Contact: nxp200021@utdallas.edu

  • Haven’t really met her advisors

  • Met with them because had a few questions went back and forth via email

  • Felt it was clear what classes she had to take

  • Just uses flowchart and kinda follows it

  • Orientation walked them through how to pick classes, core classes, electives. Showed them catalog and got own specific degree plan

  • Got an excel sheet, plans to just keep using excel sheet in the future

  • Feels that she can always reach out to advisors if she has any questions

  • Advisor was pretty open about communicating with her

    • Responded to her quickly even over the summer

  • Premed has a second advisors HVAC affiliated with the school center at the school but she has yet to contacat them

  • Freshman seminar went over how to picks classes and stuff