Summary Prototype Implementation Timeline Comments and Questions
Summary
Goal: Design an interactive, secure, user friendly, easy to maintain, web based application that provides quality personalized one stop online academic advising planning support to SFSU undergraduates.
Scope: Provide complete academic advising to students that includes:
  • Major/Minor
    • Sample programs of study Major requirement flow-charts
  • General Education & Additional Graduation Requirement
  • Courses transferred from other institutions
Plan personal program of study:
  • Built using interactive forms that guide students through requirements - Data is stored in database
View personal program of study by:
  • Semester (Completed/ In progress/ Planned)
  • Type: Major, Minor, GE, electives
  • Discipline
Advisor interface
  • Available advisors for specific major/minors will be displayed when a major/minor is selected
  • Students will select one or more advisors for a major/minor and then contact them to request advising session(s)
  • Advisors will use the system to record comments and notes that are readable by the student and other advisors of that student
  • Only advisors the student has selected will be able to view the student's course plan.
Provide online e-mail based feedback to specific questions.
Involvement:
Interested Faculty, Staff and Students
Advising Center
Colleges and Academic Departments
Graduation Evaluators
Articulation
Testing
Bulletin
Academic Resources
University Publications
DARS/SIMS
Benefits:
  • Facilitate faculty and student advising interaction, regular contact and record keeping
  • Help departments estimate course demand by tallying planned courses
  • Help students graduate quickly with limited surprises
  • Help faculty advise students
  • Provide round the clock advising support for students
  • Provide students with a flexible, universal, planning tool - even if they change majors
  • Students can play 'what if' games with alternate major plans
  • Centralized campus source of advising information with links to articulation and DARS
  • Automatically create application for graduation
  • Generate the major/minor requirements sections of the University Bulletin
  • Model for other CSU campuses
Requirements
for project
to succeed:
  • The advising application must be accessible by all students – the only requirement should be access to a computer with a web browser. No frames, no java, no plug-ins, text alternatives to all small graphics.
  • The advising application should be designed to be easy to use by students and advisors.
  • All academic departments need to adopt the system.
  • Key courses need to be accurately designated as for Fall, Spring, Summer or Winter semesters. (Could check to see if any students are planning to take a course before deciding to not offer. Could contact students planning to take a course and propose alternatives.)
  • Review/update each semester to reflect approved changes in requirements.