Team Formation System: Enhancing Student Collaboration

Team Formation System Team 4 Ryan Cavanaugh David Aramant Brian Kopecky Chris Moore Mark Newheiser Brian Klimaszewski Robert Drake

The Problem • Creating project teams based on student input • Guidelines for Cooperative Learning • Diversity of students • Schedule openings • Configurability

The Solution • Web interface • Professors create and issue surveys • Students provide responses • Professors weight questions • System create teams, notifies students

System Architecture

Conceptual Layout

Key Features • Create/edit existing survey • Fill out survey • View individual responses • Create/edit/view teams • View statistical summary • Prototype

Design: Creating Surveys • Store survey data in database • Survey templates • Pre-made questions • Easier and faster to create surveys • Create new surveys every time • Don’t have to organize questions or templates in the database • No interface required for creating, saving, and loading templates and questions

Design: Creating Teams • Dynamic web pages • Keeps number of languages to a minimum • Team creation algorithm done server side • Java Applet • Easier to reconfigure teams • Drag and drop functionality • Removes burden from server

Design Issues • IAIT-compatible technology • Intuitive interface for writing a survey • Teams across multiple classes • Multiple sets of teams • Student-specific rules

Test Plan • Outlines Individual Test Cases along with Expected Results • Defines Valid and Invalid Results • 38 Total Test Cases • Test Cases for Administrators, Managers, and Students

Test Plan Example

Questions?

Team Formation System: Enhancing Student Collaboration