Plan
The phase-one work is built around research, information collation, outreach, sorting, and distribution. The project is revisiting the research agenda and preparing to relaunch the research.
Start by checking the assumptions behind the project and confirming the problem with evidence rather than instinct.
Test how common the course-choice problem really is.
Check what students already know and where the gaps sit.
Clarify the research questions before anything is built for public use.
Gather the university, programme, and student-reality information that the public resource will depend on.
Map the courses and institutions in scope.
Collect the comparison points students actually need.
Keep the information structured enough to reuse later.
Reach the people who can explain courses in lived terms and make the research more honest and practical.
Work with schools, student unions, and student communities.
Collect student and graduate testimony.
Use outreach to improve response quality and participation.
Turn the raw material into a public resource that students can browse and understand quickly.
Review and structure the findings.
Decide what is ready for publication.
Define the form the resource should take, how people will access it, and how its utility will be clear.
The phase needs support for mobilizing people, doing the research, and turning the findings into something students can use. It also needs a clear answer to what the public resource becomes and how people will access it once the work is published.
In practical terms, that means research help, access, coordination, publishing support, and enough structure to make the output easy to follow and use.