1999 also brought us WebAdvisor, Datatel's web solution. UNB was the first site in the world to successfully run WebAdvisor for student registration, and although there are still many shortcomings in this product, we did manage to successfully register 8,000 students with it. This success has given UNB much greater credibility within the Datatel company and has opened doors for us, allowing us to talk directly to their programmers and senior managers. UNB programming staff developed web-based information delivery tools for clients. This development shows great promise as an easy to use, highly functional way to access data.
Students can retrieve their marks, transcripts, class and exam timetables.
Faculty can display class lists, extract this data to spreadsheet format for their own use and see summary graphs of class marks. More web functions will be added in the coming year. The Degree Audit and Fixed Assets modules are the major implementation tasks remaining for 2000. As well, many reports need to be developed, including ESIS and other internal statistical reports.