UAdvise: Academic Advisement System

First deployed at USC, UAdvise is a web-based tool for managing the information and processes involved in undergraduate student advisement at USC.

Since launch at USC, over 1.6 million emails, comments, course plans and other advisement documents have been created on the Advisement Database. (Source: USC Advisement Database blog)

Core features:

• Complete tracking of advisement history electronically
• Ad-hoc reporting and predictive student retention flagging
• Online advisement scheduling via my.usc.edu
• Group email tool

Core technologies:

• Windows ASP.NET 2.0 (C#)
• MS SQL 2005
• GIOS PDF (reporting)
• iTextSharp (reporting)

My role:

• Product manager
• Project manager
• Interface designer
• Application architect
• Database architect
• Technical specification writer
• Client manager

Key statistics:

• Users: 200+ advisors
• Student records: 18,000 students
• Course records: 450,000
• Launch date: August, 2007