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, and 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.

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. Directions to school, include a map
2. Have links take you to another page with the information, rather downloading a file with an ambiguous name.  Example For parents -> advanced placement this power point presentation could be turned into a web page.
3- Could add a Flash based virtual tour of the school
4- Big Bunch link: be able to flip through the months rather than school down to see all of them.  
 5- include an iCal, Microsoft exchange, goggle cal downloadable option for the calendar so that parents and students can sync this with their phones and computer calendars.
6- Big Bunch link:  change background to white or some colour that is not so bright.
7- Online system to check grades
8- Calendar link: instead of having a file listing important dates, and the rotating Friday schedule include these in the other calendar (big Bunch) and have all this information in one comprehensive place.
9-RSS feeds that parents and students can sign up for, for the teachers that they have classes with.  So that if there are any changes on the website they are notified.
10-Virtual guidance page: Top banner is stretched too much, the tabs in the banner suggest that that there are two links when there is only one.  The one link goes to the regional Halifax school board and then there is no way back to the McDonald site, should open the Halifax regional school board page in a separate tab.  – This page also does not follow the format of the other pages, and when looking at it, it seems too big to fit the browser size that was optimized for the regular site.  The user needs to adjust the browser to view the page in its entirety.  Link to course selection handbook is disabled, this is confusing.
	11-	Scholarship update page (from the virtual guidance page) is in HTML, it is not readable.
	12-	Grad updates page, is too flashy, should use less colours and smaller font to show the page clearly with less scrolling.
	13-	There are hyphens under the links, this should be removed

2. Generate ideas for the requirements of the given system that are needed by STUDENT but are not wanted by PARENT.  (30 minutes)
	
14- Sexuality site, and the health site.  Parents will want to be involved in these things
15-counseling resources
-16 Fun social activities and events (not extra-curricular) being advertise on the site, distracting the students from their work.
17- Photo gallery can be distracting for students
18- Chat room or forum to discuss homework questions with students and teacher (if a chat room students may just chat with friends about non school related matters.)

19- external resources like kids help phone etc...

	
3. Generate ideas for the requirements of the given system that are needed by PARENT but are not wanted by STUDENT.  (30 minutes)

20- Exam dates,
21- Grades posted online
22- Important dates for when marks are posted
23- Students won’t want parents to know when the social events are so that they can choose on their own or perhaps not share the information with their parents.  Parents will want to know when they are to keep tabs on their child.
24- Teachers contact information
25- solutions posted online after assignments and exams are marked
26- attendance record (days absent, and days late)

	
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)

Stakeholder: staff, teachers, board

27- Social events
28- posting athletic teams with students names online
29- a secure webpage where staff can access the students file, including any misconduct.  

30- Most functionality required by the other stakeholders, students and parents would not be against.