[Building Sakai] Tool for Academic Advising?

[Adrian Fish]

Hi Narasi,

Signup seems to do the lot. We've just started using and the only thing 
that we found lacking was updates on the calendar event when people 
signed up.

Why do you say it doesn't scale?

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 10/02/2012 20:15, Ramachandran,Narasi wrote:
>
> Hey Deigo,
>
> Here is what our folks at UF are looking at generally :-
>
> The Sign-up tool kind of answers the question but does not scale at 
> the levels mentioned below for the requirements sought.
>
> Looking for a Sakai based appointment scheduling system for academic 
> advising and potentially other student services and activities. The 
> system should be intuitive, easy to use, and allow students to 
> schedule advising appointments with either individual advisors or 
> large advising centers where they will be assisted by next available 
> advisor.  There should be college/dept configurable options such as 
> optionally restricting rescheduling of a missed advising appointment 
> and requiring student to walk-in for next visit.
>
> Since this would be a Sakai application, appointments should integrate 
> into a Sakai based calendar that combines classes, advising 
> appointments, and other university events into a single student view. 
> It would also be great if appointments could sync with calendar 
> applications, smart phones and etc. as well as send both confirmation 
> and reminder notices to students about scheduled appointments via 
> multiple channels, e-mail, text, social media.  Advisor appointments 
> should sync with calendar applications like MS Outlook.
>
> From an admin perspective it would also be important for the system to 
> capture and report key statistics.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Narasi
>
> *From:*Diego del Blanco Orobitg [mailto:diego.delblanco at samoo.es]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:07 AM
> *To:* Ramachandran,Narasi; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* RE: [Building Sakai] Tool for Academic Advising?
>
> This is interesting!
>
> Can you describe with more detail what do you want to do?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Diego del Blanco Orobitg
>
> Samoo
>
> *De:*sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org 
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> <mailto:[mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org]>*En nombre 
> de *Ramachandran,Narasi
> *Enviado el:* miércoles, 08 de febrero de 2012 22:46
> *Para:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> *Asunto:* [Building Sakai] Tool for Academic Advising?
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Do you have a recommendation for large scale academic advising.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Narasi Ramachandran
>
> Univ of Florida
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