HE-Advisor: A Multidisciplinary Web-Based Higher Education Advisory System
Fawzi Abdulaziz Albalooshi, Safwan Mahmood Shatnawi · Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 2010
The paper addresses academic advising-an important issue that is not often given enough attention by students and advisors alike. A web-based multidisciplinary advising system is presented that can be utilized by students, advisors, course timetable planners, and heads of departments. Students are given informative advice through web-based services to help them make best decisions towards a successful degree of their choice. Services, such as registering for courses to stay on the right degree path; a dependency graph showing their progress in their degree plan; a GPA simulator to help students on probation determine the grades they must obtain in the newly registered semester; information about their graduation requirements; their expected graduation semester; and other services. Advisors and heads of departments are able to see students’ progress towards their graduation and are able to generate a variety of useful statistics, charts, and reports. Timetable planners are given statistics on courses and their sections’ requirements for the coming semester. Keywords-Academic Advising, Automated Advising, WebBased Advising, Proactive Advising.