User:Mghegde

Introduction

Background

On Expertiza, the bidding interface allows students to sort topics by preference. This is needed in order run the team assignment algorithm, to match students with others based off the similarity in their topic preferences. The problem with the present method is that the students have to type in their priorities into the boxes beside the topic. While doing this the students end up making mistakes in setting up priorities by assigning random numbers to the topics, sometimes, even numbers greater than total number of topics available to prioritize. This phenomena causes various problems when running the topic assignment algorithm.

We built an interface in sign up sheet that would allow students to drag and drop the topics into the priority table. Where this priority table will be used to run the selection algorithm with ease. This interface would help avoid the errors caused by the previous interface.