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

Removed 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