1.4. Impacts
Positive Impacts
The impacts of the Scheduler Tool as a functioning system are increased convenience and efficiency in managing the courses of a large university.
- The presentation of a software system that faculty can use as a guide for selecting courses and specifying time availability.
- Simpler design and ease of use over competing software products.
- Automated scheduler generator to improve time efficiency.
- Greater selection of tools than competing software products.
Software seeks to improve teachers and students voice by including new feature to record their input.
Negative Impacts
Potential negative impacts include those common to any user-oriented software system. More specific negative impacts relate to issues of privacy, reliability, and data integrity.
- A slow implementation that takes too long to generate or modify a schedule.
- Unfair schedules, in terms of instructor preferences.
- Other subtle implementation flaws that lead to problems that go undetected until the scheduling is put in force, e.g., a room is double-booked, and no one notices it until the first day of class
Issues such as privacy, reliability, and data integrity will be of little concern unless its development methodology is considered weak to sustain large amounts of information. Such negative impacts can be easily avoided and the positive impacts can be implemented if designed and developed properly.
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