About the Client

The Evergreen Tutoring Center (or E.T.C.) consists of both the Writing Center and the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center, or QuASR. The E.T.C. is a recent joint effort between the two Centers, which have, throughout their history, been operated both collaborative and separately.

The Evergreen Tutoring Center was identified as a client for this project because of their ongoing frustrations with their existing system and the need to implement a variety of specific business rules that controlled their operations.

About the Project

This project consists of creating a specialized appointment system for the Evergreen Tutoring Center (see the Client background below). Currently, the system is under development after extensive discussions with the client. The application is being written in PHP 4 and PHP 5 with an MSSQL database backend.

The existing system currently handles student sign in/out tracking, appointment scheduling. and statistics for the Writing Center. It also handled sign in/out tracking and calculator check-in/out for QuASR. It is limited to managing a single location.

Due to the Writing Center's operations being spread out across multiple locations on Evergreen's Olympia and Tacoma campuses, this project will design a web-based system capable of scheduling appointments across multiple locations and allowing the Writing Center to centralize its statistics management and staff management efforts rather than maintaining differnet systems for different centers.

The Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center still requires the ability to manage their media (calculators, primarily), so this functionality will be part of the final system; however, QuASR does not currently schedule students for appointments. All their work is done on a drop-in basis. While they could use this appointment system in the future, they are not the primary client.

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