1. Passion and Civility Debate Scheduler
Yvonne Uwah
St. Edward’s University
Computer Science - Spring 2014
Objective
The purpose of this project was to create a web-based scheduling system that allowed participants in the Passion and Civility Debate tournament at St. Edward’s University to input the available days and times that they are free to participate in a debate. Administrators could then easily view matching times to assist in scheduling participants for the debate tournament.
Sequence Diagram
Administrator Side
Login
Administrator Use Case
Administrators select the days that a debate can take place, as well as what times they will occur. They can also create both student and judge accounts. Once added to the database, participants are then ed their login information. After participants submit their available times, administrators can view the various times they are available for a debate.
Admin View
Login view
Here an administrator selects the dates and times a debate tournament will take place.
Participant Creation Form
In this form an administrator creates judge and student participant accounts.
Debate Calendar Form
Submit
Participant
Participant Use Case
After receiving login credentials, participants can view what days and times the debate tournaments will take place. Participants can select from these days and times and submit which ones they are available to participate in a debate tournament.
Participant Login
Now an administrator can easily view when participants are available at specific days and times.
Submit
Form
Availability Form
Previous Solution
In the past, participant’s schedules were imported into multiple Excel spreadsheets. When printed out, these spreadsheets would often exceed 10 feet! An administrator would look through the massive file and group debate matches by hand. Because of this, the process of scheduling participants for a debate would take a minimum of six hours to complete.
Participant Side
System Diagram
Submit
Form
Debate Calendar Form
Schedule Matcher
Schedule Form
Admin
Participant
DATABASE
Participant Creator
Database
6 feet
10 feet
After logging in, students and judges can select the various days and times they are a free to participate in a debate.