SCHEDULE-EXAMINATION SYSTEM |
The Austin Community College Course Schedule contains a great amount of constantly-updated information about the college’s operation, and the ACC schedule website provides multiple modes of viewing that information (e.g., by campus, department, and instructor). But since the ACC site is oriented toward student and instructor use, it lacks several additional views and functionalities using the same information that would be useful to academic administrators. Here’s a public website that supports such capabilities – http://schedule.tlok.org. It dynamically reads the relevant schedule pages from the ACC website, then processes and displays the information appropriately for the selected task. The specified section lists are displayed in a form from which they can easily* be copied into spreadsheets for further processing (such as sorting on any field) or integrated with further departmental information that is not in the schedule. Users can specify the subset of semesters, departments, courses, and/or campuses for which they want information. Here are some of the site’s capabilities:
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The site uses open-source software developed by Hunter Ellinger (hunter@ellinger.org), who has offered to provide a workshop on its use and to expand the site with further capabilities making use of the same information if people express interest in them. He would appreciate any feedback from users of the site, both about any errors encountered and about potential improvements. Email Hunter about feedback on the site itself or Mary Parker to discuss how a dept chair can use it. Revised 2/27/11 |