Social impacts are defined as “the consequences to human populations of any public or private actions that alter the ways in which people live, play, work and relate to one another, organize to meet their needs and generally cope as members of society (Glasson 2000).

In addition, social impacts are the “people impacts” of development actions. Social impacts include changes in people’s culture, environment, and political systems, for the project, the module review system has two typical social impacts.

•  Lifestyle impacts – on the way people behave and relate to friends on a day-to-day basis. The system allows users to provide feedback on them, as well as obtaining suggestions according to user patterns. It leads to a useful application in university life. For example, students can share the module materials if they choose the same module.

•  Community impacts – on infrastructure, services, activity network and cohesion. The system aims to offer existing and prospective students a source of information about the available modules on each course, also, there will be an activity network like social one. Students will be able to provide feedback on them, and the system can suggest suitable modules for a particular user according to course enrolment which shared in the system.
  

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Reference

Glasson, J., 2000. Socio-economic impacts 1: overview and economic impacts, in: Morris, P. and Therivel, R. (2000) (ed), Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment, Spon Press, London and New York