1.4. Impacts
The Scheduler application will positively impact the Computer Science department in a number of ways:
- The scheduling administrator will have an easier time generating schedules, relieving manual labor.
- The transfer of generated schedules between the Computer Science department and Cal Poly's administration will be seamless.
- Professors will have a systematic and organized way of declaring their preferences.
- Professors will have a higher likelihood of having their preferences being fulfilled.
- Students will have the opportunity to vote on what classes they want to take in the near future.
- Students can view future course offerings within the department.
- There will be less human error.
There are also a few potential negative impacts, such as the following:
- Although there is proposed to be less human error, using this application might introduce computational error due to potential bugs overlooked in the scheduling algorithm.
- Mistype or lack of input of data entries might create incorrect schedules or schedules with missing information.
- Our design of the scheduling algorithm will dictate the lottery of which professors get their top choices. If not carefully thought out, this might create unfair schedules.
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