AdviseUP: Mark IITeam Hopworks:Kekai AriolaEric BergquistMegan Yamamoto

Faculty Advisor:Tammy VanDeGrift

Industry Advisors:Brian Toole and Sam Burich

Other Contributors: Dr. Kenneth Lulay (Client) Ronan Cranley (WAS)Jacob Caniparoli (WAS)

Background

Advising Process at UP Advisees meet with their Advisor every semester

AdviseUP created to facilitate this process

Notable Features Advisee can view and change schedule Templates: sample schedule for a major

AdviseUP: Mark II

Application is using live data

Scope of project extended to include all undergraduate advisees at UP

Demo

Kekai Ariola as...............................................................Kelsey AbeMegan Yamamoto as.....................................................Dr. Tammy VanDeGriftEric Bergquist as............................................................The Narrator

Technical Details

Technologies ASP.NET, JavaScript, C#,

SQL Server

Restructured SQL database connected to Materialized Views of Banner data

Data Flow

Results

Application testing conducted on April 3rd

45 Advisees tested the application and gave feedback 3.63 average ease of use score on a scale of 1(hard) to 5

(easy) 93% of testers said they would use the application

User Comments

“I liked them. They helped see very clearly what needed to be fixed.”

“Only 5 semesters visible at a time. Drag and drop doesn't work if you want to drop on a previous or future semester that isn't currently visible.”

Project Challenges

Banner Data / Materialized Views What, where, how data is stored Required a redesign of the Internal Database

LDAP vs. CAS authentication

Policy considerations Template creation Data consistency and purging

Conclusion

Scheduling and advising application

Extended existing project

Could be used next year at UP

Questions

Special Thanks To:Brian TooleTammy VanDeGrift