Department of Computer Science & IT TAS: A Teaching Allocation System to Manage Teaching Resources in a University Computer Science Department Leong Lee, Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Bruce Myers, Professor, Department of Computer Science Austin Peay State University, Tennessee, USA 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Austin Peay State University’s Record Enrollment – Nov 15, 2018 Record enrollment this fall = 10,954 students 4.7 percent increase fastest-growing public university in the state 2,000 new freshmen 1,085 graduate students 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT Department of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) @ APSU CSIT has over 600 students in all programs around 6% of APSU’s student population 100+ graduate students, 10% of APSU’s grad student population 3 Bachelor of Science Degrees (CS, CIS, CIT) 8 concentrations 5 minors 1 Master of Science Degree (CSQM) 5 concentrations 1 Professional Science Master’s Degree (CSQM) 4 concentrations. 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT Department of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) @ APSU 100+ classes are offered every semester Taught by around 10 full-time faculty members 15 adjunct faculty members Supported by teaching assistants Limited physical classrooms Classrooms have different capacities 35% of the classes are online classes 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT Department of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) @ APSU 1970: First Computer Science class at APSU 1977: Minor in Computer Science added 1979: B.S. in Computer Science & Information Systems 2 concentrations 2003: Creation of Department of CSIT Dr. Myers appointed as chair 2013: First Master’s Degree Added 2014: Maynard & Computer Science Building 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

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Department of Computer Science & IT Teaching Allocation ? APSU provides different software systems for Class scheduling Student information management No software system for teaching allocation Most department chairs use Excel spreadsheets Our solution? Develop our own… Web-based Teaching Allocation System (TAS) 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Teaching Allocation System (TAS) Back-end Designed by Dr. Bruce Myers Relational database model Runs on MySQL/MariaDB database engine. Front-end Designed by Dr. Leong Lee PHP web application HTML / CSS / Bootstrap Framework Runs on Apache web server 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Teaching Allocation System (TAS) Development Time = 24 hours 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT Entity–Relationship Diagram 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT TAS Output 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT TAS Output 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT TAS Output 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT TAS Output 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT TAS Administrator Input 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT Future Work ? TAS can be easily customized for other academic departments Challenge: admin users need to know Relational / Entity–Relationship Model Possible enhancement for other departments: an administrator module 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT

Department of Computer Science & IT Questions ? TAS: A Teaching Allocation System to Manage Teaching Resources in a University Computer Science Department Leong Lee, Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Bruce Myers, Professor, Department of Computer Science Austin Peay State University, Tennessee, USA 1/16/2019 Department of Computer Science & IT