Use Case Specification - Create Personal Statement

Name of Use Case: Create Personal Statement

Project: ePortfolio for Lifelong Learning Reference Model

Author	Alan Paull
Creation Date	14 June 2006
Last Update Date	17 July 2006
Version	Draft 0.2
Diagram	Use Case diagram

Description
The learner selects a course from her short list, in order to make a Personal Statement against this course Entry Profile.

Narrative

This use case starts when the learner selects one of the courses from her short list for the purpose of creating or revising a Personal Statement against the course Entry Profile.

The action of selecting the course for this purpose presents the learner with a template for the Personal Statement. The e-Portfolio engine will fetch the Entry Profile data from the Entry Profile System and populate the template, displaying appropriate blank spaces for the learner to insert assertions.

This use case ends when the Personal Statement template has been loaded with the Entry Profile data and pointers stored in the e-Portfolio repository.

Conditions

Preconditions	Course Information System is e-Portfolio enabled. Location of Course Information System is known and accessible. Learner is logged into her personal web space in the e-Portfolio engine. e-Portfolio enabled repositories are available. Short list of at least one course already created and visible to the learner. e-Portfolio engine has appropriate templates to display short list and Personal Statements.
Successful end condition	Personal Statement items are stored in an e-Portfolio enabled repository. Personal Statement states the course against which it has been made.
Failed end condition	No Personal Statement made.

Primary Actors	Learner
Secondary Actors	None

Trigger

Learner selects course on short list.

Included Use Cases

Populate a Personal Statement

Main Flow

Learnere-Portfolio EngineEntry Profile System
1. Selects a course from her short list.2. Receives course identifiers.3. Loads Personal Statement template.include :: Populate a Personal Statement4. Displays populated Personal Statement template.5. Stores pointers to Entry Profile items, pointers to (blank) Personal Statement items and learner identifiers.6. Use case ends when learner views populated Personal Statement template.

Branching Action


4.1 Displays error.4.2 Use case ends.