Senior Project - Ask Y.O.D.A.

The Department of Computer Science once had a system that allowed students to check their progress towards fulfilling the degree requirements for a BS or minor in Computer Science. However, the system became difficult to maintain and was made obsolete. This resulted in the dependence upon "pencil and paper" checking of the fulfillment of degree requirements, a tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone task. As an alternative, a new online academic advising system was proposed.

The system allows students, advisors, or administrators to log on and access their respective web pages. The student user can view their progress towards the degree, add planned future classes to the system, and save this data for future degree audit and planning sessions. The advisor, in addition to being able to assist students with their planning and degree audits, can also make specific transfer/waiver decisions for students. Finally, an administrator can create and manage arbitrary sets of requirements that can be used in performing degree audits. The system was implemented in PHP.