1. UMDSurvival
12/7/2009
Emmanuel T. Apau – Tom Rogan – Ed Nishihama – Alan Jackoway –

2. 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.

3. Last time, on the Internet.
Free 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

4. 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.

5. Demo or Pictures
THIS IS NOT DONE

6. 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

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

8. 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 address, but we may filter non-umd s out.

9. Conclusions ?