Intelligent Study Plan (ISP)

An Artificial-Intelligence Interactive Study Plan as Your Personal Academic Advising Assistant

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

April 12 - 2018

Intelligent Study Plan (ISP) - Purpose and Functions

The ISP empowers you with accurate, concise, and direct advising information to enrich, enhance, and elevate your advising experience at WSU Tri-Cities.

Through an Artificial-Intelligence (AI) engine and on the basis of the course planning and completion details you enter, your ISP instantly provides you on-demand with:

• Information on academic program progression• Success predictions• Recommendations of courses whose prerequisites have been

satisfied and which can be taken next• Audits of program and elective requirements, to ensure all

requirements are met• Complete advising reports for you and your advisor

Follow this presentation to see how to use your ISP.

Best wishes!

Intelligent Study Plan (ISP)Enter the

number of courses for

next semester.

Replace the “p” with a

special code to generate an advising

report.

Use Acrobat Reader only to work with your ISP on

either Windows or

MacOs

Checkmark every

planned or completed course and

enter its semester,

year, grade.

Place advising notes in the

“Notes” window. Click on “Notes” to

open it.

Enter you first and last name as well as WSU

ID # to personalize your ISP.

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Checkmark every Planned or Completed Course (Use a 300% Magnification for Convenience)

Click on the checkmark box.

Click anywhere in the background to

confirm.

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Enter the Semester of every Planned or Completed Course

Click on the semester selection box and

select the semester.

Click within the box and then anywhere in

the background to confirm.

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Enter the Year of every Planned or Completed Course

Click on the year selection box and

select the year.

Click within the box and then anywhere in

the background to confirm.

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Enter the Grade of every Completed CourseLeave the Grade Box Blank for Transfer and Planned Courses!

Click on the grade selection box and select the grade.

Click within the box and then anywhere in

the background to confirm.

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Generate your Course Advising Report

To generate your advisement report,

replace the content of the “Remaining Courses” box with a “0” and press the return or enter key.

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The Advising Report Proposes Courses to Take Next Semester

The recommended courses have all their

prerequisites satisfied! Consider taking them in

the next, usually fall, semester.

Copy the recommended courses from the report window to the “Notes” window, and then compare them with those listed in the ISP for the semester of interest. Always select

major –specific courses first, for the intended semester, before adding

courses from other semesters.

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These are not courses you must take next semester, rather

these are courses you may take next semester

Checkmark the Recommended Courses

Checkmark and enter semester and year of each recommended course planned to be taken next

semester, usually fall.

This is needed to inform the ISP that these courses are already planned.

Upon generating the next advising report, the ISP will then take these courses to be completed

successfully and hence recommend a different set of courses to take next, which may very well

depend on these current courses as prerequisites.

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Generate Another Course Advising Report

To generate your next advisement report,

replace the content of the “Remaining Courses” box with a “0” and press the return or enter key.

Intelligent Study Plan (ISP)

The Advising Report Proposes Courses to Take Next Semester

The recommended courses have all their

prerequisites satisfied! Consider taking them in the next, usually spring,

semester.

Copy the recommended courses from the report window to the

“Notes” window, as a reference to keep all course recommendations in one place. Compare them with those listed in the ISP for the semester of

interest. Always select major –specific courses first, for the

intended semester, before adding courses from other semesters.

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These are not courses you must take next semester, rather

these are courses you may take next semester

Checkmark the New Set of Recommended Courses

Checkmark and enter semester and year of each new recommended course planned to be taken

the following semester, usually spring.

This is needed to provide your advisor with complete information on all the courses you

would plan to take in the fall and spring semesters of the following academic year.

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Generate and Send your Advisor a Final Advising Report for this SessionThis ISP also generates an e-mail report for your advisor. Please check

the contents and add any further information you wish to communicate to your advisor.

The computer in which you are generating these advising reports should have Microsoft Outlook (for Windows) or Mail (for MAC)

already set up and open.

If for any reason this e-mail report is not generated in the computer you’re using, simply e-mail your completed ISP to your advisor with a message of your own. In this case, make sure to put “ISP Notification

from” and your full name in the subject line.

Upon receiving an e-mail report from you, your advisor will promptly review your ISP and swiftly reply to you with either an advising hold

release or a request for further information or a meeting.

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