RSA’s thiscampus.net has many beneficial tools that will help university students while they are scheduling classes for next semester. That is, however if they iron out all the bugs.

Main Page

The home page has links to the most important parts of the site, like class reviews, Professor profiles and the class scheduler. It also informs users on how many instructors are posted. Currently there is a listing for the most recommended professor at university, which is Joseph A Bruseo. There is a link to other popular Professors as well.

Class Reviews

This portion of the site has up to date class listings. It even has the Art classes that were just introduced on March 28. Currently they do not list all the instructors for every class.This feature does allow you to recommend a teacher for a specific class however.

Professor Profiles

Professors are listed under the same way classes are in the class reviews section. At the present time there are little to no profiles online. More use of the site could result in more reviews.

Student Web

Discussions

In this section the user can post to listed discussions, however they cannot create their own subject heading. One can post to these set discussions, and the site allows other students to reply to those postings. This is commonly refereed to as a threaded discussion list.

Class Scheduler

The site allows you to input up to 10 classes. They are displayed to you in a excel like table. In order to test this portion of the site we selected 5 classes attempted to print the page. The first page did print, but the ‘printer friendly version’ page did not. This portion of the site does however have a link to the University’s official listing of courses.

Links

Contains a way to contact the development team or just make general inquires, both are links to e-mail addresses. It is unfortunate that there are no forms for contact. If there were the user would not have to leave their web browser to send an e-mail. There is, however, a WRSA movie schedule for the on-campus movie station.

In general the is using ASP to display the database information, but it seems slow, even on BGSU’s new SuperNet.

appearance wise, the choice of orange and green are not the most eye pleasing colors, but they had little to work with.