Functional Description

The colored items are the ones that need to be filled in by our project:

1. Learning mall actions

B1. Find courses by criteria

Facets

The website allows visitors to find courses by a number of criteria. The user can filter the search by applying filters on a number of facets. The facets are:

• startDate
• duration
• estimatedEffort
• language (QUESTION do we want to show this when there is only one language?)
• delivery
• certifyingBody
• creditType
• credits

TODO What is the order of the facets on the page

Free text search

Visitors can enter search criteria on the website. This is free text. The text will be searched in the following fields of the course objects:

• code
• title
• briefDescription
• fullDescription
• startDate (QUESTION really?)
• duration
• estimatedEffort
• language
• delivery
• certifyingBody
• creditType
• credits

B2. Display CPCC’s within criteria

A part of the page is filled with the search result from the faceted search described above. The results are limited to a specific number (depends on graphics design). At the end of the result there will be a button 'more courses' that will retrieve the next 'page' of the results. These results will be added to the current page through an ajax call. See ​http://online-learning.harvard.edu for an example that closely resembles what we want.

B3. Admission type for CPCC

The 'enroll' option for a course will make a distinction between cpcc's with a 'pre' enrollment strategy and cpcc's with a 'post' of 'self' enrollment strategy. The first case will direct the user to action B4, the other case will lead to action B5

B4

This is a branching action resulting in three outcomes:

• The course registration for the current user is registered in the learner registration system with a status of 'pending pre admission' through action D1
• The subprocess 'Manually handle pre-admission' is started for this learner/cpcc (TODO specify how this is done)
• The learner is presented with a page telling him this process has been started and he will now need to be patient. The same information is sent to him through e-mail.

B5. Forward to payment system

This action is responsible for forwarding the learner to the payment provider. The action will need to create an identification of the current transaction, holding at least the id of the learner, and the id of the ccpc that is being payed, handing of this data to the payment provider.

Information pertaining to meta-data on the ccpc and/or learner may need to be attached (TODO which information is this?)

The status of this learner's pending registration is updated in the learner registration system through action D1

B6. Admission type for CPCC

This action does the selection prior to giving the signal "go ahead and start learning" to the learner. It will check on the admission-type for the given cpcc and display an informational page for the learner on how to proceed now if the admission-type is 'self' or 'pre'. (QUESTION Also e-mail confirmation?). If the admission-type is 'post', some extra handling is necessary and action B7 is started.

B7

This action is a gather and fork action. First it makes sure that actions B6 and H2 have been done.

Then it performs the following two actions:

• The subprocess 'Manually handle the admission' is started. (TODO specify how this is done)
• Display an informational page for the learner on how to proceed now. (QUESTION Also e-mail confirmation?)

2. Learner registration system actions

D1. Register pending course registration

This action registers the fact that a learner is in the process of registering for a cpcc. This process is always in a certain state.

D2. Register course payment

This action registers the fact that a pending registration has been payed. Special care needs to be taken that this information cannot disappear (financial tracking). The action then forwards to action D3

D3

This action is a parallel branching action starting of a number of separate actions:

• Make sure a netid is created for the current learner through action D1.
• Make sure the learner is registered in Osiris through action 'Create student record in Osiris' (TODO specify how this is done)
• Update the learner's account status through action D4

D4. Update learner account status

This action makes sure that the account status for the given learner is updated to the proper status (meaning this learner has payed money to the extension school!)

D5

This action waits for two processes to finish: D4 (update learner account status after having payed) and H1 (create the learner as a user in Blackboard). When these two processes signal finish (TODO How do they do that?) the following two actions are started:

• B6: "Handle the go-signal for this user to start learning"
• H2: Enroll this user in the proper Blackboard course

D6. Register course admission status

This action registers the fact that the learner was formally admitted in the given cpcc

D7. Register course denial status

This action registers the fact that the learner was formally denied access to the given cpcc

D8

This action branches off the parallel actions required to handle the fact that a learner was denied access to a cpcc. It starts the following actions:

• Refund the learner (TODO specify how this is done)
• Consume bad news message: failed admission (by sending an e-mail to the learner)

D9. Register learner-course performance

This action registers the performance of a learner in a course

D10

This action wait for the learner's performance to be registered (in D9) and the learner to be admitted in the course (D6). It will then trigger a certificate to be delivered to the learner (A12)

D11

This action presents a 'worklist' of pending course registrations for which action is required in the admission process

3. Digital offering registration system

This awful name is given to the database that holds the course-information, certification possibilities and their combinations.

E1

This action registers all data for a cpcc

E2. Yield CPCC information

This action handles the search and faceted search and retrieves cpcc's that match the filter/search-entry.

4. NetID

NetID is the Identity management system for TU Delft. A 'netid' designates the username a given user holds in the NetID system.

G1. Create a netid + password

After a user has payed he is entitled to receive a 'proper' netid. Since he was already known in the learning mall his data will be transferred from there and used to create this new netid-entry.

5. Blackboard

Blackboard is the digital learning environment currently in use by TU Delft.

H1. Provision a new user

Provisioning a user means creating her netid as a regular Blackboard-user. After the user is provisioned she can log on to Blackboard.

H2. Enroll user in course

Enrollment means that the given Blackboard-user is registered as a student in the given course.

6. Digital payment system

This system remains to be implemented. It will probably be supplied by Ogone.

I1. Handle course / program payment

This action will handle the payment of the cpcc by the learner and will provide the necessary data back to properly digest this at TU Delft.