Basically, SGU cyber campus is horrible (getting better) and Abeek is abysmal (and not even getting better). Consider this: let's say someone (that cares about grades) checks these websites 4 times a day on weekdays. That is about 5 minutes of hard time lost, each. Across the average school semester of 15 weeks, that's 300 checks—equivalent to 25 hours.
We must also consider indirect costs such as time lost from interrupted streaks of productivity, hustling from finding out about the assignment at the last minute etc. Let's approximate this cost to 5 additional minutes per check. This puts our net loss of time per student as 50 hours per semester.
If we can design the user experience through a unified, well-designed website (possibly with push notifications) and cut this time in half, and market the website to reach just 100 people, that is a net gain of 2,500 hours (3 months!) of extra productivity for the world, per semester. Assuming we hit that goal, it is likely that the userbase of the service will draw more users, encourage further development and draw attention from TA's and professors.
Original Idea: School Assignment Board Crawler
This is great, but only few people will be able to use this.
itsnamgyu
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5 years ago
Abstract
Basically, SGU cyber campus is horrible (getting better) and Abeek is abysmal (and not even getting better). Consider this: let's say someone (that cares about grades) checks these websites 4 times a day on weekdays. That is about 5 minutes of hard time lost, each. Across the average school semester of 15 weeks, that's 300 checks—equivalent to 25 hours.
We must also consider indirect costs such as time lost from interrupted streaks of productivity, hustling from finding out about the assignment at the last minute etc. Let's approximate this cost to 5 additional minutes per check. This puts our net loss of time per student as 50 hours per semester.
If we can design the user experience through a unified, well-designed website (possibly with push notifications) and cut this time in half, and market the website to reach just 100 people, that is a net gain of 2,500 hours (3 months!) of extra productivity for the world, per semester. Assuming we hit that goal, it is likely that the userbase of the service will draw more users, encourage further development and draw attention from TA's and professors.
Original Idea: School Assignment Board Crawler
This is great, but only few people will be able to use this.