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Everett Community College Advisor Portal Thomas Dye CSS 17 Advisor: Dr. Erika Parsons Goal How can we make academic advisors and students more efficient at determining degree paths and educational goals? Research Talked to EvCC advisors

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Everett Community College Advisor Portal

Thomas Dye CSS ‘17 Advisor: Dr. Erika Parsons

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Goal

How can we make academic advisors and students more efficient at determining degree paths and educational goals?

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Talked to EvCC advisors Observed advising sessions Researched current tools

Research

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User Problems

 Faculty spend a lot of time talking with students  Identifying how to get them from point A to point B is not easy  Not all of the time spent is productive

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Design Requirements

 Quickly evaluate potential college degrees  Create plans that map admission requirements to EvCC courses  Have easy access to course, college, and degree information

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Sketches Balsamiq wireframes HTML

Ideation

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Rich information on courses, including placement scores, instructor authorization, and other course prerequisites. Create a new Degree Plan, a student roadmap, by searching by school, department, or name. Add new courses, degrees, and schools which map back to EvCC courses. View a student’s progress and update their coursework.

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Challenges

 ColdFusion, HTML and CSS - newbie  Web security - writing a hashing function and salting passwords  Design language – rationalizing what page elements do

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Updating how prerequisites are shown in course catalog Uptick in interest from graduate students to extend Interest among other community colleges

Impact

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Reflection

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Next Steps Next Steps

Usability improvements Recommendation engine

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Thank You

Thomas Dye CSS ‘17 Advisor: Dr. Erika Parsons