Dan Lawson | Online Website Design Portfolio

The Feedback Wizard is a The Times Higher Education Award nominated application which uses a blend of Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel to allow assignment markers to generate consistent individual feedback documents for an entire student cohort using an assignment-specific feedback template containing a matrix of assessment criteria and feedback comments.

The final result of the Feedback Wizard is a compressed ZIP file (Containing feedback files for each student) which imports seamlessly into the Sheffield Hallam University Assignment Handler, used to manage grades and feedback online.

The Module Planner Wizard is my second application developed for Sheffield Hallam University Staff. The planner is a more complex version of the Project Registry Document Wizard and uses Visual Basic programming language to act as a user friendly interface for data entry into a Microsoft Word document.

The planner enables the user to select from two wizards, Module Descriptor Wizard and the Session Planner Wizard, each with a specific purpose to guide the user into filling out what would usually be a cumbersome document.

The PRD Wizard is an application created for Sheffield Hallam University staff which handles the input of data into a Project Registry Document  effortlessly. The Wizard enables the user to browse through a series of three sections, each covering the three main sections of the document.

The main advantages of using the wizard over manually entering the information are:

• The straight forward user interface allows for time to be saved editing a complicated document.
• The input fields will only allow the required data type (Letters, Numbers, Both).
• Date ranges can be easily selected and verified saving time and effort.
• The in-built help system provides all the information the user requires about each input field.
• Reduces the risk of mistakes and the need to format the document.
• Can be easily printed using the Print menu.