Advisor Dr. Tammy VanDeGrift Industry Representative Mr. Brian Toole University of Portland Information Services Client Dr. Kenneth Lulay Team  Sam Burich  Kapua Chandler  Chris Lewis SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AdviseUP

Advising Process of UP  Faculty members help students plan their semesters  Currently, schedules are stored in various formats (text documents, spreadsheets, etc.)  Advising meetings take up considerable time SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Solution: AdviseUP  Web-based scheduling and advising application  Allows students and faculty to view and change schedules  Expedites advising process  High potential for use in future advising SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Notable Features  Advisees can move courses using drag and drop functionality  Advisors can add/remove a course from an Advisee’s schedule  Additionally, advisors create templates used to initialize advisee schedules SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Demo of AdviseUP SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Starring: Kapua Chandler……………………………… Kapua Chandler Chris Lewis………………………………………………Tammy VanDeGrift Directed By: Sam Burich

Technical Details  Technologies  ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, SQL Server  Chosen based on input from UP Web and Administrative Services  10,000+ lines of C# and ASP.NET code  Database  Separate from UP Banner database SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Most Challenging Feature  Drag and drop functionality in Graphical View  Integration of several technologies  Adapted plan to include JavaScript  Uses code to dynamically generate code SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

User Test Results  Application testing was conducted on April 3  28 students participated and gave feedback  96% said they would use application  89% said they preferred graphical view  75% said application responded quickly to interactions SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Tester Comments  “Perhaps changing the button … would make it extra clear.”  “List view doesn't show the [Department and Number].” SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Conclusion  AdviseUP is a scheduling and advising application  Expedites advising process for students and faculty  High potential for use in future advising SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Questions? SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Acknowledgements  Brian Toole  Ronan Cranley  Tom Ank  Joey Houck  Dr. Kenneth Lulay  Dr. Tammy VanDeGrift  All Testers