CourseViewer - Tool for viewing catalogs of university courses and school histories

• Celmar GuimarãeS da Silva UNICAMP
• Mário Toshiaki Inoue UNICAMP
• Paula J. Castilho de Mendonça UNICAMP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsi.2012.14418

Abstract

Students, teachers and coordinators of degree programs need to access frequently information about program courses, such as credits and prerequisites, and students' course histories. This information is generally available only in a textual format, which may hamper people to make overview analyses of these histories and of program catalogs. In order to ease these analyses, this work presents a prototype that uses interactive graphs for representing histories and catalogs. It enables to reorganize visually courses according to users' needs, such as planning future semesters or understanding the impact of a course as a prerequisite for other program courses.

Keywords: CourseViewer, Tool, Visualization of Catalogs

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