course scheduling plans
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Student interactive course scheduling& a long term course planning
Chris van Waes, [email protected]
Who am I to do this?
• I’m a 4th semester student, science major, living in Bagijnhof, who needs your help to improve our school system.
• My main motivation for this, is to give the students the best education and service they can possibly get, and I do think I am capable of performing well at this as your AAC chair.
• Having said that, I assume you are not looking for idle chatter here, so click on to read about what is on the schedule for change.
The idea
• Imagine an online platform; you give in your semester, major and minor.
• You then have the option to choose what courses you want to do in a list.
• After all (or a lot of) students have done this, we inform you of how your plans are working out.
• You can change your courses till you’re satisfied.
The first thing
• So the first thing you should obviously do is select your courses.
• It would closely resemble the Course Clash Checker on the Erodios website.http://erodios.nl/ccc.php
Your current semester: 2Major track 1: Political ScienceMajor track 2: Computer ScienceMajor track 3: EconomicsMinor: RhetoricsExchange Planned in Semester: 4
The courses you are taking
Your input, this determines
your chance of getting in
• Then we show you the courses you chose, combined with the chance of getting in.
• You will be given the choice to either change courses, or leave it the way it is.
• Your chance of getting in depends on whether the course is part of your major/minor and if you will be able to do this course in a different semester. (These are also part of the criteria used by the Senior Tutor.)
Students Chance
18
28
24
25
High
Low
High
High
Do you want to change anything?If yes, choose what courses you want to change.If not, please confirm your choice for now.
You would be
able to take this course
another time
Although the course is almost oversubscribed, are you likely to get in, since it is
part of your major.
What happens next?
• The previous process is repeated a couple of times to give you the chance to change courses, or until nothing changes anymore.
• Meanwhile, we also ask you to fill in the courses you are planning to do in the semesters afterwards.
• You do not need to be sure about taking these courses, but it tells us about your plans.
Semester 4:
Likely
Very likely
Not likely
Neutral
Very likely
Neutral
Likely
Very likely
Semester 5:
The courses for the coming
semesters
Your expectation of whether you are going to take a
course
Expectation
You will get the results of your choices back the same way as for the other semester (as in the previous figure), but now also with suggestions on how you can possibly adapt your course planning to avoid courses clashing etc..
Why?
• You can already see if your planning is going to work out, plus switch courses to semesters where taking the course gives no problems.
• School can adapt its planning to whatever courses are more or not wanted.
• Course clash problems like the ones on Facebook nowadays can be solved beforehand, which saves you a lot of stress.
• Etc.
Conclusion
• The system in the hands of the AAC would change a lot, but all in favor of our students.
• School will allow try-outs and changes, but to make it work, we will need a big amount of students who support it.
• To support it, please vote for this idea (and me!) on the GA and give me the opportunity to improve our own school system.
Questions, suggestions, just in
for a normal talk or discussion?
Drop by: Bagijnhof4b, mail me:
[email protected] or Facebook me.
No matter what, I am willing to listen
and help!