Course Registration Project “Simple Scenario” At the beginning of each semester,
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Question
Course Registration Project
“Simple Scenario”
At the beginning of each semester, students get a course catalogue containing a list of course offerings for the semester. Information about each course, such as professor, department, and prerequisites will be included to help students make informed decisions.
The system will allow students to select four course offerings for the coming semester. In addition, each student will indicate two alternative choices in case the student cannot be assigned to a primary selection.
Course offerings will have a maximum of ten students and a minimum of three students. A course offering with fewer than three students will be cancelled. Once the registration process is completed for a student, the registration system sends information to the billing system so the student can be billed.
Professors must be able to access the online system to indicate which courses they will be teaching. They will also need to see which students signed up for their course offerings.
For each semester, there is a period of time that students can change their schedule. Students must be able to access the system during this time to add or drop courses.
Please read the simple scenario carefully for the project, and answer the following questions:
Using Microsoft Project 2007/2010 tool, draw Gantt Chart for “Course Registration Project” showing the task name and the duration of each task (Work Breakdown Structure (WBS))?
Explanation / Answer
begin creating entire scenarios, especially those that function like a real psychology experiment, complicated objects will become more and more useful. Three key objects in most scenarios are pictures, stimulus events, and trials.
A picture object in Presentation represents an entire screen of graphics. A picture contains picture parts, such as boxes, text objects, or bitmaps. So, if you want to show a text object and a bitmap object on screen, both of these would be included in the same picture object. For more on pictures, please see the Picture Stimuli section. For now, this main page and the Picture Attributes and Picture Parts sections are the most important to understand. It will also be important to understand how picture timing works when you start creating your own scenarios. For more on this, see the Picture Timing Control section.
A stimulus event is one stimulus (such as a sound, picture, or video stimulus). The parameters for the stimulus events describe how that stimulus should be presented. For example, you can give timing information specifiying a trial should last 2000 ms.
The trial object is the basic building block of experiments. Trials have many different optional parameters, but you can begin using very basic trial structures and then work your way towards more complex ones. A trial in Presentation is very similar to a trial in a psychology experiment in that it represents a sequence of stimuli. The Presentation trial object contains a list of stimulus events and information about the timing of presenting those events. The timing of stimuli in your trial is explained in the Trial Timing section. However, you should not get caught up in thinking that what you consider a trial in your experiment should be a single trial object in Presentation. In many cases, the easiest way to manipulate the stimuli in the way you want is to include multiple trial objects