Problem Statement:
Coursera planner (CP) - improve planning/scheduling for your Coursera courses
Primary user needs:
The CP supports Coursera terminology
The CP helps in selecting course, in enrollment and in execution up-to end of week 1
The CP shows one-page status overview
The CP supports continuous planning and monitoring
The CP supports tasks, assignments and deadlines
The CP provides guidelines and supports sharing & rewards
The CP automates and presents different formats
Latent needs:
! The CP has an easy pattern language to describe course actions
! The CP helps you identifying the rhythm of the class (workload, ratio lectures/assignments, …)
! The CP is space efficient: all main task / milestone dates information on one page
! The CP has a Timelog: logs time spend on each course
! The CP gives guidance on course selection & overall study planning
! The CP records finished courses, %scores, track, Forum leaderboard position / score
! The CP benchmarks the student performance against the course student populaton
! The CP automates collection of task information from Coursera site
! The CP automates updating task status from Coursera site
For a complete list of user needs see assignment 2.2
Decomposition of the design problem:
Concepts:
Which concept do you like for planning your Coursera courses? What is your favorite?