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Press Coverage
Advisor was covered in an edition of the Greentree Gazette . The higher-ed business publication's discussion of degree audit systems identified Advisor as one of "two niche products [that] appear to dominate this specialty."

Advisor provides a web-based management interface for every level of user: students, advisors, registrars, and appliance administrators. Students use it to run and manage audits on themselves, advisors use it to run audits and communicate with advisees, registrars use it for batch audits and reports, and appliance administrators use it to alter appliance settings and to create or restore backups. The appearance is highly customizable to blend into your existing online applications. Advisor is fully compatible with Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0.

A Web-based Menu

Communication is a cornerstone of effective advisement, and Advisor's built-in tools streamline the communication process. Communication between students, advisors, and registrars is as simple as typing your message into a box and clicking a single button. A private bulletin board is maintained for each student in the system, to which only the student, the student's advisors, and the registrar have access. The board provides a permanent, easily-accessible record of advisor/advisee communications. This is a much more usable solution than email or telephone communication, because it requires no attention to be paid to addressing or storage.

The web-based help system is a context-sensitive online manual designed to put helpful information in front of users with little or no searching. Whenever the online manual is opened, it starts with topics relevant to the user's current location in the web application. The manual contains both topical help and frequently asked questions, both of which are fully searchable.

Registrars can define groups of students with a very high level of specificity, and then run batch audits on the group. All of the options available for single audits are also available for batches, and batches can be exported to a single, indexed Adobe® PDF file. Batches can also be exported to an XML format for use in custom tools or views.

User sub-types can be created to fit the delegated responsibility structure of your institution. For example, a registrar sub-type could be created for students that work in your registrar's office. Access to various menus and tasks can be toggled on and off for the new group, and users can be moved into and out of the group temporarily. The context-sensitive help system also reflects the permission level of the current user, showing only the help topics for areas to which they have access.

The appliance administrator is able to control many underlying application settings, including password policies, failed login handling, data import schedules, custom data fields, custom text labels, and much more.

The web application can be customized to look like other web applications at your institution, creating a smooth user experience for students and advisors. Over sixty color settings exist, allowing nearly every background, border, and text color in the application to be customized from a palette of over 65,000 colors. The logo image in the upper left-hand corner of the web interface can also be changed to match the rest of your campus or student services branding.

We rate Advisor's accessibility against the standards published by the Worldwide Web Consortium, or W3C. These are called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG 1.0 is the current version. The Advisor interfaces that are used by students and advisors satisfy all WCAG Priority 1 checkpoints, nearly all Priority 2 checkpoints, and even most of the Priority 3 checkpoints. The interface used by registrars to manage the graduation requirements, however, is more graphical in nature and should not be considered an accessible application under WCAG standards.

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