Capstone Project

During my last semester at James Madison University

I completed my senior capstone project. My team and I were assigned to create an office hour management system that can be used by our students and faculty at JMU.

Meet My Professor

Project Overview

Professors at JMU are seeking a way for their students to be able to join a queueing system for their office hours.
The queue will allow all students to see their professors at a time that fits both the schedules of the professor and student.
Meetings can be changed and edited for the faculty's desired needs.

This capstone was created by <Div>ine Creations, a team of 8 Computer Information Systems students and 2 Media Arts and Design students.
This team collaborated within an agile project framework.
- Each week the team was required to submit a sprint.
- Including a pre-sprint, there was a total of 4 sprints to achieve our end product.

Design Requirements

For students:

Sign up for office hours within a defined schedule using their smartphone
Pick the purpose for their visit from a drop down menu
Build in a mechanism to avoid abuse of the system
The ability to see how many are in the queue before them & their placement in the queue
Receive notification with any changes to their meeting or meeting times

For Faculty:

Allow to see who is in the queue and their average wait time
Allow to message all or individual students in the waiting room
A button can be used to let students know when they are ready for them
An "arrived" button can be used to log the meeting with the student
The ability to "over-ride" the priority order
Reschedule the office hours time
Collect data on times by course, faculty member, student, days or the week and time in order to see traffic patterns

Meet My Professor - Prototype

Check out the full Prototype!

Final Website Walkthrough

Website created with HTML/CSS and C#

Design Process

Design Question:

"How can we improve the experience of faculty, staff, and students using the office hours management system?"

The Users

User Stories

Student

"As a user, I want to be able to search for my professor and see their available office hours so that I can join the queue"
"As a user, I want to be able to join the queue of my professor's office hours so I can meet with my professor"
"As a user, I want to know the estimated wait time while I am in the queue so than I can get work done while I wait "

Faculty

"As a user, I want to see my students in a queue that will also provide me with the meeting purpose so than I will be prepared for the meeting"
"As a user, I want to be able to message my students in the queue so than they will know if a meeting is running late or I can see them earlier"
“As a user, I want to input my office hours and edit them on the website so students will know when I am available”

Kamryn Haran