We, along with first year masters student Sarai Mitnick, will be developing an interface for entering syllabus information into SylViA in User Interface Design and Development (INFOSYS 213). In order for SylViA to succeed and be widely adopted at SIMS, as many professors as possible must be won over to our format and contribute syllabi each semester.

We intend to design an input interface that will be useful and intuitive enough that professors will actually want to maintain syllabus data through SylViA. In addition to professors, we need to consider that TAs will be helping maintain syllabi and multiple people might be working on the same set of data. The syllabus model is comprehensive and fairly complex, so we need to arrange a lot of information into a clear and concise interface. There has to be an easy way for users to navigate through the different modules in which they will enter general information, texts, readings, class descriptions, etc.

Course work for this project can be found here.