EECS 441 Preso #4

1. RateMyCourses is a web app that consolidates information and
anonymous feedback on courses (while RateMyProfessors
consolidates information and feedback on professors).
441fall2021 Section 2
Anthony Ke, Solomon Song, Belany Zhang, Nicole Xie

2. Elevator Pitch
1. For University of Michigan students
2. Who are dissatisfied with going to various websites for course info
3. Our product is a course review website
4. That provides a consolidated platform to find course information.
5. Unlike Atlas, Reddit, and RateMyProfessor,
6. Our product provides courses statistics AND allows anonymous written
feedback for each course.

3. USER RATING Importance (1-5) Satisfaction (1-5)
Logging in ✅ 3 3
Searching for Course 🔍 5 3
Viewing Course Page 👀 5 4
Creating a Comment 💭 5 4
OVERALL Rating 💯 4.5 3.5
Unexpected Issues
⚠
User 1: Selecting “Other”
for grade revealed a bug
User 5: Confusing
spacing in comments
User comments
💬
User 1: Replace ‘Other’
with ‘P’ and ‘F’ for grades
User 2: Use different
colors for the stats and
comments divs

4. Report on Data Collection
User 2: “Optimize the
space by putting the
statistics div on the left
and the ‘add a comment’
div to the right”
User 3: “Add a
pop-up message
indicating that a
comment has been
created”

5. MVP2: Rationale for and Design of MVP2
😔 Shortcoming 😔 😊 Solution 😊
What is ‘Other’? Add a ‘P’ and ‘F’ option
Hard to find helpful comments Allow users to sort comments by likes or
recency
Only supports EECS 281 Add more classes
Not sure if comment was created Add pop-up message
Confusing spacing during comment
submission
Fix spacing :)

6. MVP2: Rationale for and Design of MVP2
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