adviseup: mark ii team hopworks: kekai ariola eric bergquist megan yamamoto faculty advisor: tammy...
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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