Dear Students:
Today you are going to generate ideas for the requirements of a computer-based system that is described in a document of a client who wants to improve the SIR JOHN A MACDONALD HIGH SCHOOL website http://sja.ednet.ns.ca/index.html.
You are going to use the power-only EPMcreate technique as the creativity fostering technique to generate your ideas.
The power-only EPMcreate technique consists of 5 mini brainstorming sessions. In each mini session, you will pretend to think from the viewpoints of two stakeholders(roles/users) STUDENT and PARENT, one of you will represent the STUDENT and the other will represent the PARENT. For each pair of viewpoints, you will follow the steps 0-4 that are explained in the table below
Try to produce as many as possible, don’t evaluate any idea, and don’t inhibit anyone from participating. 
You have only two hours to carry out the steps, but you may end your session earlier if all of you agree that no more ideas are forthcoming.

Other stakeholders

0. Blank out your mind.	
1. Generate ideas for the requirements of the given system that are needed jointly by STUDENT and PARENT.  (30 minutes)
	
1.	The website should be organized in a better manner 
2.	There is no “Search” button available in the website..
3.	Important dates should be presented in a calendar view. 
4.	Categorize the events in important dates page.
5.	Provide a forum. 
6.	Fix broken links
7.	The photo gallery should be better organized 
8.	Listings of community resources for students and parents that may not be available at the school 
9.	Daily report School Bus schedule and cancellation 
10.	All the pages should have the same format
11.	All the files should be pdf format or html format but not combined

2. Generate ideas for the requirements of the given system that are needed by STUDENT but are not wanted by PARENT.  (30 minutes)
	
12.	Although course information has been provided at the website in the “Course Selection Handbook” but it has not been organized properly. Everything is placed in a single PDF file. Instead, there should be separate tabs for different types of courses providing more detailed and organized information.
13.	Course planner should be intelligent enough to calculate credits for the entered courses for any particular term. This will help ensure students that they select courses with required credits each term, meeting all criteria.
14.	Three year course planner should also check if the course entered by student is valid or not. 
15.	Grading criteria has been specified in the PDF file. However, there should be an interface that would show students their grades in the courses for that semester as well as cumulative result.
16.	Transcripts for students should also be displayed in a separate interface. Proper security settings would have to be implemented that will make sure that only authorized people is able to view grades and transcripts.
17.	Interface is also required that will allow students to change/drop courses conveniently. 
18.	Library Resources  to include what books are signed out.
19.	Online portal should be implemented for students that would help them in all their academic/course related affairs. 
20.	“Sports” section of the website is missing a lot of information at the moment. It doesn’t specify schedules and teams for all the sports. 
21.	In the “Sports” section, information relevant to trials for different sports should also be provided. 
22.	Current layout of the “Sports” section seems relevant for organized sports only and it does not focus on the pick up games.
23.	A social network (like Facebook or MySpace) customized to the school should also be offered to the students. 
24.	Information about dress code should be provided
25.	Honours list should be provided
26.	Menus of food served in school cafeteria  
	
3. Generate ideas for the requirements of the given system that are needed by PARENT but are not wanted by STUDENT.  (30 minutes)
	
27.	Parents are generally interested in knowing the performance of the school in the past years. The website should present this information to the parents, clearly indicating the average scores of students in various courses.
28.	Parents should be able to check the academic performance of their child online. This would include grades of their child as well as their standing in the class with reference to results of other students.
29.	Information about the Highlight parking spots and drop-off zones for parents. State the parking fare if applicable
30.	Parents should be able to post offers for car-pooling. 
31.	include pictures to the staff websites or contact information
32.	More details about the parent-teacher meetings should be provided. 
	
4. Generate ideas for the requirements of the given system that are not wanted by both of STUDENT and PARENT, but are needed possibly by other stakeholders. (30 minutes)
	
33.	Students generally apply to universities after completing high school. There should be some way for the universities to verify the results of the applicants from the school. 
34.	Universities would also be interested in knowing where a particular ranks amongst other students. 
35.	So the website should not only provide students grades to the universities but also specify information related to performance of that particular student with reference to other students of his batch.
36.	There should be some way for the companies who intend to organize seminars/workshops in the school to check what dates are available for arranging the events and have a link to request the organization of their event. 
37.	The website also needs to have a portal where the companies would be able to post job openings, internship opportunities and volunteer work online.
38.	The school may be interested in hearing feedback from students and parents. They should create a free-fill feedback form in which anybody can provide any suggestions for improvement or complaints. 
39.	For prospective parents, the website should provide more details about the facilities offered by the school in terms of curricular and extra-curricular domains. 
40.	Better organize the information on the website
41.	Information about the school board  and provincial  educational information 
42.	The information about when it was last updated and about the recommended browser and tools to view the web site
43.	All the pages need to be in the same format and theme, and contain a link back home to the homepage
44.	Information about volunteering and donations should be provided