Multicore operating systems has > 3000 past students in past 5 years???

[dyoustra]

What's going on with multicore operating systems? This is a new course, never offered before (at least, in the past few years), but has data from the past ~5 semesters and tons of grade distribution data.

[Samathingamajig]

Disclaimer: pretty technical explanation

The current method for searching the database for grades is based on Instructor Last Name + Department + Course Number (and then matching on the Semester + Year for an individual semester instead of aggregate).

One issue that arises when courses have the same department + course number is that it's hard to distinguish which course is which, especially when we don't have instructor-specific information for a class (or worse, an instructor teaches multiple courses with the same department & course number). The reason for this is that the name of the course is very inconsistent across data sources and years.

Here's an example with several courses that match "PED 103L" with the same instructor, with inconsistent names for some of them:

It's pretty bad for CS, which has a ton of courses with the "C S 378" designation