Registration++

Problem

Undergraduates often face uncertainty and frustration during course registration due to scheduling conflicts, varying course difficulty, and uneven workload distribution.

Solution

A “one stop shop” for all things UT registration: the course catalog, class descriptions, stats and syllabi, grade curves, RateMyProfessor reviews, and a schedule creator all in one app. This tool addresses these challenges by helping students create well-balanced schedules that reduce conflicts, align with their academic goals, and provide greater confidence in the registration process.

User Interviews

Before we began building, we asked eight undergraduates about their experiences with the beginning class registration in a structured interview. Here is the breakdown of the group:

*McCombs is a business school.

Stakeholders

We then identified the four major stakeholders and their primary goals of this project:

Professors:

Balance class sizes and avoid over-underenrollment.

Academic Advisors:

Intern, working under a supervisor on a 6-person frontend team

Registrar’s Office:

Maintains accurate course and degree requirement data

IT Department:

Ensures technical feasibility, maintain system security

Given these stakeholders, we each created a different persona for student clients. Here was mine, a coasting senior who wants to minimize his semester workload in order to spend most of his time outside of class applying for jobs:

Scenario

Based on Chill Chuck’s habits and priorities, I placed him in a scenario in which he would be most susceptible to using our application:

According to his user behavior gradients, Chuck wants to spend less time doing extracurriculars while he looks for a job. By providing a relative weekly homework load in addition to other course statistics sourced from syllabi and RateMyProfessor, he can better plan out his semester to get the things he wants to do in his senior year.

Final Product