Happy New Year! We are trying to start the New Year off right by rolling out some new changes!
Today we’ve upgraded UGAKey.com to what we are calling version 2.5 (see the announcement post for version 2.0 and other upgrades).
This upgrade provides more helpful information for students, while optimizing your viewing experience.
First things first. We’ve added links to the UGA Bulletin’s course descriptions. Click on Info under “Course Info” and you will see the full course title, a detailed description of the course, any prerequisites, semesters offered, grading system, course objectives, and topical outline. This is a pretty nifty tool that UGA has recently started offering, and we’re glad to be able to implement it in the grade data. We hope this will help students make better decisions on their class schedules (the more information the better). Note, some specialized and old courses do not have course descriptions available.
Second, when you click on a department from a dropdown menu or on the homepage, you’ll notice that the data page is now more compact. We’ve moved the percentages for individual letter grades on to separate pages for each course. You can click the ‘More Data’ link on the left side of a course to view detailed course grade data. We’ve made this change to allow the data pages to load quicker on your screen. This change will also allow us to better integrate more features in the future, including a possible course review or professor review capability (something we’re currently working on).
Lastly, we’ve done a lot of optimizing and cleanup. Pages should load faster than before, which we know is helpful when you are registering for that needed course on Drop/Add (got to beat everyone else to OASIS).
If you used the previous version to do detailed filtering of courses by letter grades or other columns, this upgrade limits your abilities. But, to compensate, we’re keeping the previous version available for you to use, right here.
If you notice any problems with the upgrade or if you have any problems, questions, feedback, or comments, please use our contact form to let us know. We want to help you, and if something is broken, we can fix it quickly if you let us know.
~Your UGAKey.com Developers
PS- We are waiting to get the Fall 2009 grade data. We’re hoping to get that in time for Drop/Add.