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Online Course Reserves

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.

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Online Course Reserves

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  1. Online Course Reserves Ciera Christopher Edith Koler Patricia Lin

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Search Course Reserves  Clear affordances  Clear Search  Links to get more information  Link to contact

  5. Old: Missing Entry  Not centered  Table borders are ugly  Table columns are unclear

  6. New: Missing Entry  Color attracts user attention  Table is clear

  7. Old: Professor with Multiple Courses  What’s Num?

  8. New: Professor with Multiple Courses  Table makes sense

  9. Old: View all Reserves  What does the button do?  Circular Links  Too much information  What’s this referring too?

  10. New: View all Reserves  Columns clearly defined  Clearly defines what table displays  Removed useless buttons

  11. Old: View Online Reserves  Too much work to download all  Useless Link  Table is unnecessary  Three Pages?!  Centering makes it difficult to read  “View image of:”…What’s that about?  What’s all this junk?

  12. New: View Online Reserves  Only two pages! Removed useless links  No extra table and text  User can select all for easy download  Easy to ready article titles

  13. Old: Permissions  What number?  Glad you gave me a choice

  14. New: Permissions  Clear where number is

  15. 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

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