USC Course Schedule

confidential information - screenshots' description

1. Course coordinator fills out the form of course scheduling. The form features few javascript tricks to enable/disable fields (eg. there are specific hours for specific days, so rest of the choices is disbled)

2. After storing a course request in the system, coordinator can preview the list of them and submit request(s) to Director of Studies. Before submitting, each request can be edited. Now, one of mine scripts takes control while the coordinator sends a request and calculates which Studio is the most proper for given course. The same script checks for date conflicts, and if there is any, request is not submitted and Date Conflict Error is printed. Coordinator must edit that course then, and select different hours (days), or send a special request to Director of Studies.

3. Director's Panel. All submitted requests by all coordinators are listed here. On the left tab, Director can select Semester (the number indicates how many requests were sent). The system shows only those semesters, where a request was sent to. Semesters without requests are not displayed. Studio Assigned shows studio number where the given course was assigned to. Director has the ability to change the studio.

4. She can also edit each entry.

5. Director wanted me to build a graphic reflection of the submitted requests. I met her requirements using DIV layers that were positioned absolutely from top left corner, creating output in a form of a grid - something like spreadsheet. Each minute was represented by 2 or 3 pixels, therefore it was easy to write a function which would render the boxes in perfect length, to fit the time presented on the left side of the graph.

6. Each of these boxes were interactive links - an admin could click any of them to open new window with pre-filled input fields to edit each, scheduled course.

7. If given course has also a discussion session (some courses have a discussion once a week), Director has ability to edit only course details, or only discussion details (right bottom corner, O for 'O'nly). If everything is set ok, Director may publish the course. The colours in Time Matrix will change from fading green and yellow into solid ones then: solid green for course and solid yellow for discussion (if any). I hope you liked my ideas that were put into this as well as other developments.

Should you have further questions regarding these or other developements, contact Greg

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