How will an advising portal help students and academic advisers?
Delivering quality academic advising to students is a high priority for JMU. In the universitys current web structure, important advising information is found in multiple departments, programs, offices, and divisions across the university making if difficult for students and advisers to locate all of the information needed to make important academic decisions. The portal addresses this problem by pushing information to students and advisers based upon their individual roles and attributes such as a students major, minor, academic progress, and career interests. In this way, advising information can be tailored to individual students and advisers in a more unified and consistent manner. A university task force has been identified to design the advising portal and feedback has been collected from students and faculty about what is important to them as part of an advising portal. Because the development of the advising portal is an on-going process, initial enhancements will be released i
