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Providing an experience much like shopping online, the SIS automates the process of guiding students through course selection based on their academic goals. A student can create customized lists of courses he is interested in; view a profile of an instructor; find a course location on a campus map; and review the details of the course offering. He can add courses to his personal shopping cart and view them in relation to other classes in a day/time grid. In addition, he can sign up for daily e-mails that list the classes in his shopping cart, their current status, and how many seats are still available. This information is also available in a personalized RSS feed that is updated every half hour.

the system puts 360-degree viewing controls in the hands of instructors and their students, who can review the recording of a dancer from many different angles as they critique interpretation as well as technique. They can study the anatomy of the dancer in three-dimensional space and analyze every movement more fully than would be possible even with a live dancer in a traditional studio with mirrored walls. “Dance is the type of thing that’s normally done only ‘in the moment,’” says Ostrander, “but we are able to freeze the dancer’s recorded motions and play them forward or backward, more slowly or faster, [and from various angles], to view all the intricacies of the dance.”