UMDSurvival 12/7/2009 Emmanuel T. Apau – kaveiii@gmail.com Tom Rogan – trogan@umd.edu Ed Nishihama – enishiha@gmail.com Alan Jackoway – jackoway@umd.edu

The Problem Many things about college are best learned from other people. Some things can only be learned from experience. Many University programs and policies are not well known. It can be difficult to anonymously advertise events on campus.

Last time, on the Internet. Free Stuff @ Maryland Gives information about free events College Confidential Gives information “only a student would know” Rate My Professors Gives information about professors OurUMD Gives information about classes and professors

Approach Forum-based community Allows discussion on many topics of interest to students such as Events Class Ratings University Policies and Secrets Users remain anonymous if desired Only Univeristy of Maryland students/faculty allowed.

Demo or Pictures THIS IS NOT DONE

Usability Test 8 UMD Students and 1 Prospective Student Students were given a few actions such as: Post an event and verify its post Register for the site Find a good class for next semester Find information about a free food event Look for help pertaining to the site Give feedback to a thread creator

Usability Results Overall, most found the site easy to use. Some layout bugs were discovered Need more here

Future Work There are some features, such as a special notation for events with food, we would like to add. We would like to add Twitter support. Currently, we are not filtering new registrations by email address, but we may filter non-umd emails out.

Conclusions ?