Pact+Analysis

Pact Analysis **
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 * People: **

- Students (i.e.: Part-time students, full time students and students with disabilities)

- Faculty (i.e.: Professors and teaching assistants)

- Community and Portal Organizations

- Staff

- Guests

- Organization Leaders

- Maintenance Operators


 * Activities: **

- Grades can be viewed

- Assignments can be submitted

- Communication through discussion board

- E-mail

- Announcements made by Professors and TAs

- Downloading course documents (i.e.: Lecture notes, assignments, presentations and course syllabus)

- Manage UTM meal plan

- University of Toronto News

- Direct links to other university affiliated sites (i.e.: Rosi and webmail)


 * Context: **

- Portal is a 24 hour accessible learning tool used to improve the overall learning experience of it students.

- Portal is used as an immediate communication tool between students and course instructors.

- Due to regular maintenance of the site, during these times it is unavailable.

- During "peak hours" where students use is high, the site takes longer to load.

- Portal is used by many students to check their current grades in a course, however at times this section is not regularly updated.

- Other courses require students to log onto different sites such as Slate or Wikispaces to access lecture notes and assignments.

- Courses such as MGM101 AND MGM102 at UTM used learning based websites which incorporated "podcasts" of lecture materials

- Portal should also have useful tools such as video input to show new users such as guest and first year students how to use the site


 * Technologies:

-** Using CSS to allow the website to load faster pages

- Using external scripts

- Reduce file sizes for documents and presentations

- Clean up Coding (some editors add useless codes to webpages e.g.: empty tags)

- Changing current maintainence programs to another program that allows the site to be maintained faster

- Incorporate podcasts into blackboard website

- Sync technology to mesh Facebook and Portal