2023
PepperPlan
Academic planning platform with a prerequisite checker and a generator that produced 100+ personalized degree plans.
Overview
PepperPlan came out of a real problem at Pepperdine: students struggled to get time with counselors and to build a reliable strategy for finishing their degree on schedule. So I built the counselor into software.
It's an ASP.NET web application over a database of courses and their prerequisites. Students assemble schedules while the app verifies prerequisite fulfillment as they go, and a generator produces personalized degree plans from academic year, major, and minor - over 100 plans generated. Selecting any course also surfaces alternative major or elective courses that satisfy the same requirement.
The course data itself was assembled in collaboration with Pepperdine's IT department - comprehensive major requirements plus a full course catalog - which became the foundation of the application's database. There's also a published write-up of the system.
Highlights
- Prerequisite verification engine that checks schedules as students build them.
- Generated 100+ personalized degree plans from year, major, and minor.
- Suggests alternative courses that fulfill the same requirement.
- Course and requirements data assembled with Pepperdine's IT department.