At the University of Twente, the Teaching Assistants (TAs) play a significant role in assisting the students’ understanding of the topics covered within a module to improve the quality of education. To allow the process of involving such TAs, Module Support and Module Coordinator officers follow and perform certain tasks; they check the procedures for which TA applicants have achieved certain academic requirements, they validate whether the TA applicants need work permit and they arrange job contracts for the eligible applicants. However, determining students' eligibility poses some concerns regarding efficiency, resilience and security manners from the officers' perspective due to their usage of various Excel sheets. This case leads to multiple file versions, manual checking, and lack of structure to the data, which might result in errors and negative effects on the productivity of officers. Therefore, a web application has been designed to improve the working experience of the officers, so that they can arrange the formalities of determining module eligibility of TA applicants and their job contracts more conveniently.
The CS Design Project module is one of the two final modules of the Bachelor. In the design component of this module, students show that they master the entire design trajectory, from the first informal specification of requirements by a client to the delivery and presentation of a well-documented working product. Projects are submitted by clients from either inside or outside the University. Students perform the project in groups of 3-5 students under the supervision of a teacher from the Department of Computer Science. The supervisor is also the one who assesses the process and products of the group. Project deliverables include a project proposal, a design report, a presentation and a poster.
Our final application prototype is deployed on the university infrastructure.
View the user manual of the prototype.
View the full design report for this project.
At the University of Twente, the Teaching Assistants (TAs) play a significant role in assisting the students’ understanding of the topics covered within a module to improve the quality of education. To allow the process of involving such TAs, Module Support and Module Coordinator officers follow and perform certain tasks; they check the procedures for which TA applicants have achieved certain academic requirements, they validate whether the TA applicants need work permit and they arrange job contracts for the eligible applicants. However, determining students' eligibility poses some concerns regarding efficiency, resilience and security manners from the officers' perspective due to their usage of various Excel sheets. This case leads to multiple file versions, manual checking, and lack of structure to the data, which might result in errors and negative effects on the productivity of officers. Therefore, a web application has been designed to improve the working experience of the officers, so that they can arrange the formalities of determining module eligibility of TA applicants and their job contracts more conveniently.
The CS Design Project module is one of the two final modules of the Bachelor. In the design component of this module, students show that they master the entire design trajectory, from the first informal specification of requirements by a client to the delivery and presentation of a well-documented working product. Projects are submitted by clients from either inside or outside the University. Students perform the project in groups of 3-5 students under the supervision of a teacher from the Department of Computer Science. The supervisor is also the one who assesses the process and products of the group. Project deliverables include a project proposal, a design report, a presentation and a poster.
Our final application prototype is deployed on the university infrastructure.
View the user manual of the prototype.
View the full design report for this project.