Online Course Reserves Ciera Christopher Edith Koler Patricia Lin
Introduction to the System The course reserves system allows students to: Search for course reserves by course or professor Find information on books stored in the reserve room Download copies of online reserves
Problems Identified Our evaluation of the Online Course Reserves produced the following results: Unnecessary text Links that went to useless searches Circular Links Forced to download only one item at a time Lack of color Spacing made text difficult to read Table borders were large and distracting Ugly
Search Course Reserves Link to contact Links to get more information Clear Search Clear affordances
Old: Missing Entry Table columns are unclear Not centered Table borders are ugly
New: Missing Entry Table is clear Color attracts user attention
Old: Professor with Multiple Courses What’s Num?
New: Professor with Multiple Courses Table makes sense
Old: View all Reserves What does the button do? Too much information Circular Links What’s this referring too?
New: View all Reserves Columns clearly defined Clearly defines what table displays Removed useless buttons
Table is unnecessary What’s all this junk? Useless Link Centering makes it difficult to read “View image of:”…What’s that about? Too much work to download all Old: View Online Reserves Three Pages?!
New: View Online Reserves User can select all for easy download Easy to ready article titles Only two pages! No extra table and text Remove d useless links
Old: Permissions What number? Glad you gave me a choice
New: Permissions Clear where number is
Evaluation of New System Conducted same evaluation on 6 users. No confusion by unnecessary text. Users could not click on links that were confusing Users could download multiple files Color attracted users to important information Information was easy to find