Bowling Green State University
Student Degree Audit
UI Design, UX Testing
Education, Prototyping
After surveying the issues within the current BGSU degree audit system (a degree audit is the online portal that records the credits taken, in progress, and still needed for each student in order to graduate) it was telling this system was not contributing to students success. The current system has poor navigation, hierarchy, iconography, inefficient linking, and so on. It was obvious this needed a drastic usability change.
Adobe Ilustrator
Branding Package with completed logo, fonts, colors and standards
This is the new and improved function of the student degree audit portal. This takes on a clean, intuitive to navigate design with all the needs a student could have when completing graduate requirements.
Here is the academic portal. This holds students courses, credit hours, and all other graduate requirements all within one location.
This portal is based on a reward system in order to change the experience for the better. This is to encourage students to be excited and feel accomplished by achieving these standards.
This would be the interface as the student started to achieve portions of the requirements. Each medal is signifying the stage's status of accomplishment (bronze, silver, gold).
After clicking on an icon, the requirements clearly state what is needed to advance to the next stage of medal and what is missing altogether. Also the class sections and catalog are able to referenced straight from here.
After all requirements are completed and in gold status, then and only then, will the application for graduation appear. This gives the student the gratifying experience of seeing they have earned a gold reward for all their personal hardwork.
This course catalog breaks down courses by name, abbreviation, or even has a search feature for students unsure of what they are wanting to take.
Students may hear of a class or brush by it without the ability to take right away. Potentially they want to save that class for a later time inside of the portal. This also gives you the description and other relevant class information.
This course catalog breaks down courses by name, abbreviation, or even has a search feature for students unsure of what they are wanting to take.
It was amazing to find out how many students had no idea what a degree audit was. Some had stumbled upon it and still said it looked foreign to them. This is a section to education students on the purpose, answer FAQs, and give a place to contact if needed.
Programs are typically very large when counting the number of students in them. You may or may not meet many people inside your personal program. Although what if you could find classes taken by people who are similar in learning styles, interests, in the same major as you, and so on, just by taking a simple questionnaire and seeing the results.
No two students are the same. There are many cultures, languages, ages, on a campus. Therefore this gives the ability for high contrast color change or font size increase for those that may have trouble reading easily. Also a translation feature for those where English is not their first language.