System Services
ADD
BROWSE
EDIT
REMOVE
QUESTIONNAIRE
UPDATE DATA BANK
NEW SURVEY
UPDATE SURVEY
DELETE SURVEY
PUBLIC'S VIEW
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- System Service Manuals
Course pages start with the page which contains a list of the current course list on the left side and another list of the possible course operations next to it. Before proceeding on some specific operations, e.g., BROWSEing a course, the desired course name with the semester and year should be selected first.
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NEW COURSE (COURSE ADDITION)
This button forwards to a blank course addition form to be filled. The user only required to fill the course name, the semester and the year of the course which will be considered as the title of the course later. The other fields in the course form are optional to fill at the registration of the course to the system.
Some fields are only kept as information while browsing the course manualy, and some fields are linked with other operations in the system. For example, instructor, co-instructor and TA fields do not have any usage in the rest of the system other than giving information on course manipulation pages, e.g by browsing a course. However, some other fields have a usage in the rest of the system. For example, course URL field has a usage that it links the other pages with the course home page. The fields 'Extra Credits', 'Publish Averages', 'Final Grades', 'Grading Type' are related with the grading of the students and should be kept in mind to be changed later for various kind of grading options.
The small red button in the "Grading Type Field" opens a new window to define word grades associated with numeric points in case of customized options selected. Instructors may select the customized option and define grades like "A", "A-", "B+", "B", etc. or like "Excellent", "Very good", "Good", "Fair", "Poor", etc., associated with points like 100, 90, 80, etc.
One important aspect of the design of course operations in the system is as following. Instructors may define new courses, however, they can not get immediate accesses to this course without the permissions of the system administrator. The system administrator should give the permissions for the instructor, co-instructor, or TAs for any specific course access regardless of who defined the course first in the system .
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BROWSE
The 'BROWSE' button shows the selected course record.
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EDIT
The 'EDIT button allows to update previously defined course information.
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REMOVE
The 'REMOVE' button causes to delete the course information and all the related informations like student registrations, course questionnaire, surveys, etc. . Because it may not be recoverable, users should be very careful before deleting any course. Otherwise all the records kept about course and registered students will be lost by this single operation.
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QUESTIONNAIRE
The "QUESTIONNAIRE" button forwards to a different page than the others, which contains the survey list associated with the selected course and a number functions to perform while preparing surveys for the course. On the top of all, the "UPDATE DATA BANK" button provides the manipulation of the questionnaire data bank, public to all defined courses in the database.
Users should select a survey name first to update, delete, or to see the public's view of it. The other operations are independent from the current survey list.
The "NEW SURVEY" button fetches all the current questionnaire data bank and allows to select desired questions from the list to prepare a specific survey. The list is sorted with respect to categories of the questions.
At the bottom of the questions, the name of the new survey should be written before submitting the form.
The "UPDATE SURVEY" button brings the same list from the questionnaire data bank with previously selected questions highlighted. New questions can be added or old ones can be deleted from the survey. It also allow to change the survey name, which causes a new survey to be constructed based on the current one. To remove the old survey just go back and delete the survey from the main menu, i.e., "DELETE SURVEY" button.
The "PUBLIC'S VIEW' button forwards to the survey page, which students actually filling on the public domain. It lists the questions sorted with respect to category and allows answers for each questions from 0 to 4 points grades.
The "registration" survey name is reserved survey in the system. When a survey name is called registration, students are required to fill out additional fields about their student records together with public's view. (The final form is not reflected in the "PUBLIC's VIEW", however, it may be seen when checked from students' site "Course Sign-Up" button.)
The "UPDATE DATA BANK" button opens up a new window listing all the current questions in the database sorted with respect to their categories. The questions are common to all courses defined in the system, and any addition to the list can be seen by other instructors of other courses. The form in the window enables selection of a sublist of questions to remove from the list. Users can also add new questions or overwrite a question by changing the question number to an old one.
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