AdviseUP Team –Sam Burich –Kapua Chandler –Chris Lewis Advisor Dr. Tammy VanDeGrift Industry Representative Mr. Brian Toole University of Portland Information Services 1 School of Engineering
Introduction AdviseUP –Scheduling and advising application –Expedite advising process for students and faculty –Real client: Dr. Kenneth Lulay –High potential for use in future advising School of Engineering 2
Accomplishments Finished implementation and testing of the GUI for advisors and advisees Implemented and tested most GUI database interactions –Missing queries related to drag and drop functionality Fully implemented LDAP authentication School of Engineering 3
Demo School of Engineering 4
Primary Functionality P1 Application is web-based P2Application is accessible by Mechanical Engineering advisors and advisees P3Advisees are able to view their schedules and rearrange courses. Advisors are able to add and remove courses from their advisees’ plans. Administrators are able to add and remove courses from all advisees’ plans. P4Advisors are able to specify prerequisites and co-requisites for courses P5Application detects prerequisite and co-requisite violations P6Advisors can create templates for academic plans P7Application has graphical user interface P8Advisors are able to view academic plans for all advisees. The list will be populated automatically. P9Advisors are able to circumvent course prerequisites and co-requisites P10Advisees are able to append notes to their own academic plans. Advisors and administrators have full edit capabilities of these notes. P11Application is able to print academic plan P12Users log into application using authentication service P13Application has associated help documentation School of Engineering 5
Plans Implement drag and drop –Functionality –Database queries Test the application –Functionality tests –Load tests (Pizza party!) School of Engineering 6
Milestones School of Engineering 7 StatusDescriptionOriginal Target Previous Target Present Target CompletedJanuary Program Review 27 Jan 2012 Completed Alpha Version of Program 3 Feb 2012 CompletedAlpha Testing and Code Revision 10 Feb 2012 CompletedBeta Version of Program 17 Feb 2012 In progressBeta Testing and Code Revision 24 Feb 2012 In progressFebruary Program Review 24 Feb 2012 Final Version of Program Complete 2 Mar 2012 Final Testing and Code Revision Complete 23 Mar 2012 Loading Testing Complete 30 Mar 2012 March Program Review 30 Mar 2012
Concerns Drag and drop (of Course boxes) functionality Hosting the application Potential database connectivity concerns with live application School of Engineering 8
Conclusion AdviseUP will: –Expedite the advising process –Be built for a real client –Be completed on time (ideally) Continue to meet every milestone on time School of Engineering 9