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Initial requirement capture

• The CMS will handle course scheduling of fall/winter/spring quarters for the EWU Computer Science Department.
• The CMS will include a Java-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for ease of use.
• The CMS will take into account the location of an instructor's office (Instructor teaches at base location).
• User will be responsible for entering the following:
  • Rooms available (assuming that the Computer Science department is only concerned with the number of rooms in SIRTI, not their individual capacity)
  • Instuctors' times of availability, office locations, etc.
  • Course information
  • Course offerings (information about specific classes, containing time, instructor, cross-listing, etc.)
• Block scheduling will be available.
• Course offerings will be visualized with respect to rooms, instructors, courses, days of the week, and times of day.
• For a course offering, the user may select a room, an instructor, and/or a course, and all other resources will be filtered with respect to items selected (i.e. resources not available are removed from consideration).
• CMS will thus prevent scheduling conflicts including:
  • More than one class in a single room (unless cross-listed)
  • Scheduling instructors who are not available
  • Time Conflicts
• CMS will be able to save data entered (i.e. instructors' preferences, rooms, course offerings, etc.)

Last updated: Sat Mar 01, 2003