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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 Observed advising sessions Researched current tools

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

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

Ideation Sketches Balsamiq wireframes HTML

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

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

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

Reflection

Next Steps Next Steps Usability improvements Recommendation engine

Thank You Thomas Dye CSS ‘17 Advisor: Dr. Erika Parsons