m5_discussion_–_mycwu_use_cases

This discussion will be a means of collecting important use case information about MyCWU from you, the student users. There are other classes of MyCWU users as well (for example instructors, course schedulers, graduation requirement specifiers, financial aid managers, registrar staff members,…), but we’ll focus on Students for now. Notice that in this effort we’re just analyzing the As-Is system — the way MyCWU works now — not the To-Be system that we as analysts will soon be wanting to specify. Now that you have been reviewing the whole breadth of MyCWU capabilities from the Student’s point of view, let me ask each class member State a goal that Students can accomplish with the help of MyCWU (for example, “keep informed as to service outages that may affect me”) List the names of the use cases that MyCWU currently enables which can help me accomplish that goal (for example, “obtain list of planned outages and closures,” “obtain details of a specific planned outage or closure,” “communicate with person responsible for specific outage listing.” For each of these use cases, state the steps a Student will typically follow to carry out the use case. You can do this in outline form. For example: (goal) keep informed as to service outages that may affect me (use case 1) obtain list of planned outages and closures on the MyCWU home page, observe the list within the box “Service Outages and Closure” if the word “More…” is present, click it, to go to the Outages and Closures page with the complete current list of outages and closures (use case 2) obtain details of a specific planned outage or closure on the MyCWU home page or Outages and Closures page, click on any one of the listed outages and closures to see its details (use case 3) communicate with person responsible for specific outage listing when the details for a single outage or closure are showing, see the email address at its bottom or the name of the source at its top send an email to this person