Add Class page
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:23 pm
This page needs some work.
The "Beginning Date" doesn't have a pop-up calendar to select a date. It seems awkward to type in a number of classes. I can see the utility of that - there are lots of courses that are a set number of weeks. There should be an alternative to simply select an end date (think like Google calendar - you can "repeat" an event a specified number of times, or until a set end date).
Check which Sundays the class is offered: there should be an option for "all Sundays."
Manual and Lesson Material: there should be an "Other" where people can fill in their own content. I suggested this for the beta too, and supposedly it's improved since then. However, it looks like the "Other" category is only available for individual lessons. If a ward is having an entire course whose material is not out of one of the listed manuals, then it isn't clear what the scheduler should create for the course. For example, in my ward, every few months we offer a 6-week course from the BYU Personal Finance curriculum.
Auxiliary: The only option shown is the one for which I have admin privileges. This is awkward, because at first blush I thought that was the only auxiliary for whom the lesson scheduler is available. It should have all the possible auxiliaries, and just gray out the ones that I don't have admin rights to select.
Instructor: this isn't immediately clear that it will let/force me select someone from the ward directory.
Other features: There should be a way to select a class that has been taught before. For example, there could be a drop-down menu or some other way to select classes that have been offered in the past. The fields could auto-populate, making a quick way to recreate a past class. Or alternatively, make more complex repeat options (for example, if a 6-week course will be offered four times over the course of the year, you can select the start dates for each time. Or go into an existing class and create a new start date for the class to restart again.)
Classrooms: Have an option for putting in the room the class is held in.
Multiple classes: There should be a way to show if there are multiple instances of this class. For example, the instructor field could have an "add" button below to add a team teacher or simply a second instructor for a second room. This will meet the needs of those wards that, for example, have two or three Gospel Doctrine classes. Then the scheduler doesn't have to go into three separate courses to schedule out lessons - she can just go into the one course (which is taught by multiple instructors in multiple rooms each week) and schedule out the lesson once, and the person/place multiple times.
The "Beginning Date" doesn't have a pop-up calendar to select a date. It seems awkward to type in a number of classes. I can see the utility of that - there are lots of courses that are a set number of weeks. There should be an alternative to simply select an end date (think like Google calendar - you can "repeat" an event a specified number of times, or until a set end date).
Check which Sundays the class is offered: there should be an option for "all Sundays."
Manual and Lesson Material: there should be an "Other" where people can fill in their own content. I suggested this for the beta too, and supposedly it's improved since then. However, it looks like the "Other" category is only available for individual lessons. If a ward is having an entire course whose material is not out of one of the listed manuals, then it isn't clear what the scheduler should create for the course. For example, in my ward, every few months we offer a 6-week course from the BYU Personal Finance curriculum.
Auxiliary: The only option shown is the one for which I have admin privileges. This is awkward, because at first blush I thought that was the only auxiliary for whom the lesson scheduler is available. It should have all the possible auxiliaries, and just gray out the ones that I don't have admin rights to select.
Instructor: this isn't immediately clear that it will let/force me select someone from the ward directory.
Other features: There should be a way to select a class that has been taught before. For example, there could be a drop-down menu or some other way to select classes that have been offered in the past. The fields could auto-populate, making a quick way to recreate a past class. Or alternatively, make more complex repeat options (for example, if a 6-week course will be offered four times over the course of the year, you can select the start dates for each time. Or go into an existing class and create a new start date for the class to restart again.)
Classrooms: Have an option for putting in the room the class is held in.
Multiple classes: There should be a way to show if there are multiple instances of this class. For example, the instructor field could have an "add" button below to add a team teacher or simply a second instructor for a second room. This will meet the needs of those wards that, for example, have two or three Gospel Doctrine classes. Then the scheduler doesn't have to go into three separate courses to schedule out lessons - she can just go into the one course (which is taught by multiple instructors in multiple rooms each week) and schedule out the lesson once, and the person/place multiple times.