Graduate Student Format Advisement Tool

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Summary:

Develop and implement a secured, web interface that will be used by graduate students who are preparing their thesis or dissertation. Format Advisement is a process that graduate students are required to follow to format their document in a standardized way with fonts, headers, footers, margins and spacing. This web based tool developed as a PHP application will ease the process for students by enabling them to fill out a web form which will generate a template for them.

Start Date:

August 3, 2009

Go Live:

November 23, 2009

End Date:

November 23, 2009

Current Milestone:

11/23/2009 - QA testing and usability testing with group of graduate students

Stage:

On track

People

Sponsor/Champion:

Adrian Sannier, Vice President and University Technology Officer

Lead Customer:

Mike Dickson

Project Manager:

Roger Lurie

Contact for more information:

roger.lurie@asu.edu

Associate VP University Technology:

John Rome

University Technology Director:

Leah Lommel

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Source:

Internal

Priority:

High

Scope:

The scope of this project includes an interactive tool that will generate a Word 2003 or Word 2007 compatible template for importing of the students document content. A later phase of this project is envisioned to pull data from PeopleSoft to populate form and template and integrate with an ETD solution.

Mockups:

Format Advising Form

All Milestones and Schedule:

* Create form mock-ups and style guides, 8/10/2009 - COMPLETE
* Enable webuth authentication and saving of data, 8/10/2009 - COMPLETE
* Improve application based on initial user responses, 9/30/2009, Craig - COMPLETE
* Research and implement techniques for embedding images in documents, preserving page numbering and auto-generating table of contents, 9/30/2009, Craig - COMPLETE
* Perform QA testing and usability testing with group of graduate students, 11/23/2009, Angie - IN PROGRESS
* Enable access by graduate students, 11/23/2009, Bill