Initial Report on Generating Winter 2012 Schedule for MU Department

Entering Resource Data

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Generating a Schedule

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Editing the Schedule

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Other Issues

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1. Fill in the appropriate department name where "X" appears above.

2. Under the heading "Entering Resource Data", describe any problems that arose when entering database records for instructors, courses, or locations. If there were no problems, say "All data successfully entered."

3. Under the heading "Generating a Schedule", describe the quality of the schedule that was automatically generated, in particular:

   1. Did it contain all classes?

   2. Were they at reasonable times?

   3. Were there any scheduling conflicts?
   
   
   If the exact Winter 2012 was generated directly, say "Winter 2012 schedule successfully generated, with no edits."
   
   NOTE: If you want to force the generation of a correct schedule, you can try to enter specific instructor preferences to ensure that one instructor gets exactly the classes that are scheduled for that instructor in the Winter 2012. It would be better to enter preferences more broadly, where the actual Winter 2012 times as courses are within the preference range of the instructor who got them.

4. Under the heading "Editing the Schedule", describe how close you were able to get to the actual Winter 2012 schedule for the department, using the Scheduler program editing functionality. I.e., you want to produce precisely the schedule that is published by the department for Winter 2012. If there were no problems, say "Winter 2012 schedule successfully produced."

5. Under the heading "Other Issues" Describe any other problems or issues that arose during the schedule generation process, including UI look- and-feel and overall usability.