Senior Project Presentation: NOVA SCHEDULER

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Senior Project Presentation NOVA SCHEDULER

• Melissa Corning, Reeti Kumar, Colleen McInerney

Production Notes http//hawk.csc.villanova.edu/f
07g04 Project Website http//www.sierrastarlight
.com/scheduler
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Purpose

• Nova Scheduler is an innovative online student
  registration program. It has the ability to
  search for classes in a variety of new ways and
  it is able to look up requirements by student
  major. In addition, it provides a new calendar
  feature.

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Technologies Used

• Database created with
• MySQL Adminstrator
• Navicat for MySQL
• Scheduler program implemented with
• ASP with VBScript
• HTML
• Cascading Style Sheets

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Database Sample Scheme
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Database - Tables

• Person
• Student
• Faculty
• Courses
• Department
• Requirements
• Attributes, Prereqs, Dept_major

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Features - Login

• A user can login with their banner id and
  password
• Upon Login their previous saved information is
  accessible

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Features - Searching

• CourseID
• Course Name
• Department
• Instructor
• Requirement
• Start Time
• At or After
• Days

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Features Search Results

• Results are show by department
• Courses are listed in alphabetical order
• Course Information
• Section
• Time and Days
• Add a course/Course is Full
• Click on course to get detailed information

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Features - Calendar

• The Calendar is divided into three sections
• Morning classes
• Afternoon classes
• Evening classes
• Click on a class for course detail
• To finalize this course selection, click register
• To remove this course, click remove to drop the
  course
• Overlapping courses shown in red

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Features Viewing Requirements

• Details all course requirements for the students
  major
• The student can then search for courses based on
  their requirements

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Examples

• Frightened Freshman
• Biology Major
• Overzealous when choosing courses
• Super Senior
• Computer Science Major
• Needs to make sure that requirements are
  fulfilled
• Doesnt want classes at inconvenient times