Rit Intersect Demo

Hello, my name is Gregory Koberger, and I'm going to give you a quick tour of the RIT Intersect. Traditionally, course registration is a long process involving a number of different sites. There's the course listings, for seeing what's being offered, and when. There's open and closed courses, for seeing what courses are full. There's rate my professors and tiger reviews, for feedback about instructors. There's the computer science house schedule maker, for planning your quarter. And there's tigertracks, for planning the rest of your time at RIT. On top of that, majors, minors and concentrations all have their own sites. The RIT Intersect combines all of these features into a single, simple to use system. Let's take a look! We're going to start by browsing. You select a quarter, college and discipline. This gives us a list of courses we can look through. Each course has the basic information. Course number, title and discipline. It has a course description, and use created tags. We can add our own tags, too, which makes the course discovery even easier. Below, there's a list of the offered sections for the given quarter. Each instructor has his or her rating next to their name. On the right, we can see if the course is open or not. Green means there's room, orange means it's almost full, and red means there aren't any spots left. To the right of that, there are icons showing NTID support, as well as additional information about the course. Let's say we have specific criteria for the course we're looking for. By filtering courses, we can narrow down what the system shows us. For example, we can say the course must be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, only. We can make multiple selections, by holding down the control key. Next, we can say the course must have open spots, and it needs to be level 200 or above. Now, all the coruses on the right reflect the filters on the left. If we click this option on the bottom, any course offered in this discipline will be shown. This is helpful for finding interesting or relevant courses that aren't offered during the quarter you're looking at. If the course will be offered in the future, a list of quarters is shown. Since we often know the discipline a course is in, we can search. We can type anything, and the autofill will do it's best to figure out what we mean. For example, we can enter in a course ID, and the autofill will take us directly to the course page. If we're less certain, we can type in keywords. We have the familiar filters on the left, and courses matching our keyword on the right. Now, let's look at lists. When we're logged in, we can easily add courses to a list. Let's create a list called Programming Courses, and then add a few courses to it. Now, if we go into myIntersect, we can see a list of all the courses we made. We have the ability to add or remove courses from here, as well as sort them. Also in myIntersect, we can see the official lists. These are the lists of courses for minors, majors, concentrations and other requirements. Users can choose to make their lists public, so others can browse them. Now, let's generate a schedule. Functionality is very similar to the Computer Science House schedule maker. Our schedule is going to consist of four courses. For the first one, let's say we definitly want to take Programming For Information Technology III, and we definitely want it to be with Professor Kennedy. Since this is the only section in the first group, it's guarenteed to be in every schedule. Next, let's add courses to the other three groups. We don't have specific courses in mind, we just know we need a business, science and technology course. So, we'll add courses from lists we made before. When we're done, we can click generate. Our courses move to the left, and are still editable. On the right, our generated schedules are displayed. Each schedule has a row of options on the bottom. We can star a schedule if we want it to be saved to our myIntersect. The sharing options make it easy to show off our new schedules to friends, and there are download options that let us export to iCal, Google Calendar, or HTML. We can select schedules by clicking on them. This lets us select the schedules we're considering, and ignore the ones we don't like. To make this easier, we can use the thumbnail mode. Once we select all the schedules we like, we can view them in the Selected tab. Using browsing, searching, sorting, filtering, lists and the schedule generator, we can easily find and create the perfect schedule in minutes, using a single system. So, what's next for Intersect? In the future, we're going to get even more social. You'll be able to share information about courses, and get a list of recommended courses RIT Intersect thinks you should take. Finding interesting and relevant courses you want to take is going to become easier and easier. Happy registering!