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- The info view for choosing HASS classes is similar. One element we wished we could have fixed on this view was the lack of fading or other distinction between the scrollable box containing the course options and the info text below.
- The Course Requirement classes are inserted explicitly into the user's schedule, so there are no options to choose from in this info view. The user can only return to the main screen using the "X" icon.
- When the user selects a course to drag onto the schedule, the app automatically "greys out" semesters when this course is not offered in order to communicate that this course cannot be dropped onto this slot.
- Also, if the user tries to drop a course onto a semester when they would not yet have taken the recommended prereq's, they are able to do so but a red warning message will appear.
- Users also have the option of searching for other courses (even ones not in their major) if they want to take a class that was not automatically filled in by the app. This is a functionality that we chose to implement after requests from several test subjects during the paper prototyping phase.
- The search bar allows users to search for courses by class number, professor, or class title.
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- For classes where the selector screen comes up, the name of the class is not listed. For the course requirements, this is less important. However, for the AUS/LABs, and especially for the HASS classes, just the number designation is not useful (and as pointed out by our TA, any use of just the numbers and not the names would be difficult for the graduate student users). For the HASS classes, unless you knew already which class you wanted to take (and, furthermore, there’s no affordance for scrolling in the selector screen), its difficult to find a class to find without clicking on a bunch of the options.
- Fix: Either some sort of classification, whether by major or by topic. Or a search feature? Search would not be too difficult, as we already have it implemented, but if we could tie the classes that people searched for to the requirements (more on this below), this could help.
Major: Search/Requirements Fulfilling
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