Team Name
WeAdvise
Timeline
Fall 2020 – Spring 2020
Students
- Ashrit Koirala
- Dongqing Ye
- Sajan Dangol
- Harsimran Singh
- Ram Kharel
Abstract
We Advise is a web app which facilitates either an advisor or a student regarding their academic advising. Currently, there is not any web application available which helps students get their advising online. WeAdvise offers students to Get in line, Online through the website. Students have to wait in
the queue for an hour just to get themselves advised, Students do not know how long they have to wait to meet their advisors, Advisors are unaware of how many students are in the advising list. These are some of the things that are missing in the present advising process. WeAdvise is the solution for such problems that students and advisors are facing. WeAdvise makes students easier to meet the advisor of their preference in a time-efficient way. The main vision of WeAdvise is to overcome a long waiting time to meet an advisor from anywhere using any kind of browser
Background
CSE Academic advising is the process of academic advisors to assist students in discussing their educational plans and making appropriate course selections. For each undergraduate student in computer science, computer engineering, or software engineering major, advising is required each semester before enrolling in courses. Students have to visit advisors in available advising hours to discuss their educational plans to get assist in progressing toward their degree. Also, students may need to meet advisors to reevaluate their progress whether drop a class or swap a class.
Currently, we have four academic advisors in our CSE department. However, the waiting time of meeting an advisor usually may take more than one hour due to the high demand for advising. Students need to wait outside of the advisor’s office to keep track of the current advising queue. It is not efficient to have students come almost one hour early to wait for advising and check the waiting line with a paper of one list of waiting students. During the advising time, advisors need to mark the class that the students have taken based on their degree plan. This process might increase the waiting time for students who wait for advising. To increase the efficiency of advising and shorten the waiting time for students, our We Advise system is designed to set up schedules, display degree plans and add other features to allow a better advising experience for students and advisors
Project Requirements
- Students can create an account.
- Students and advisors can login and logout.
- Students and advisors can select majors and years.
- Students and advisors can add what classes are taken, see the list of the class still needed, and see the flowchart.
- Students can see the manual on how to make an appointment.
- Students can see monthly advising schedules.
- Students can choose which advisor.
- Student can be put in general queue if he/she don’t have a preference.
- Students can get a reminder by text/email when they are close to the front of the queue.
- Students and advisors can push students back in queue (people).
System Overview
WeAdvise is a web application where any UTA CSE student can register using their valid UTA student id. Students should provide their Name, Email, phone, and Contact Preference during the registration. Students will be able to select their major, graduation date, the class is taken, and suggests them with the required class for graduation. After the creation of the profile, they will be redirected to the Home screen where they will be able to select whether they are a student or an advisor. For the student menu, they will be able to put themselves in the queue for advising, select advisors, see the estimated time for the advising, and remove themselves from the queue. For the advisor’s menu, the advisors will be able to see the personal and degree information, the class taken and required classes.
Results
Video(link)
Future Work
- Bug fixes
- update on requirements
Project Files
Project Charter (link)
System Requirements Specification (link)
Architectural Design Specification (link)
Detailed Design Specification (link)
Poster (link)
References
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