Advisee-advisor online communication platform

• Main Author: Chiam, Jia Ying
• Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4252/1/17ACB04217_FYP.pdf; http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4252/

University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) provides a portal for advisor to add consultation notes during consultation meeting with the advisee. However, it is not efficient as advisees need to find their advisor privately to book a time with the advisor for consultation. The number of consultation meetings also added bulk to the advisor especially when advisees are asking repeating questions. Hence, this project titled “Advisee-advisor Online Communication Platform” is developed and serves to improve the existing academic advising system of UTAR by increasing the effectiveness of advisee-advisor communication and provide an alternative way to ease the communication between advisee and advisor by implementing various functionalities, including chatbot replies and analysis, calendar events, booking of meetings, and CGPA calculator and target CGPA calculator. This project is done based on Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology, and it includes 4 phases, which are the requirements planning phase, user design, construction and feedback phase, and lastly the finalise product and implementation phase. For this project’s website development, it is built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript for front-end, and Node.js for server-side. Python is used to develop the chatbot, and for database, MySQL is used.