Did you know there is information on more than 2,500 courses posted on the University’s Web site? Students, prospective students, faculty and the community at large can access pertinent information (descriptions, course codes, days, times and instructors) using two Web-based search tools.

Through FDU WebAdvisor (http://webadvisor.fdu.edu), available since December 2002, current courses can be searched by their topic, course codes, titles, instructors, days and times offered and locations. For example, if one is looking for an undergraduate biology course being offered on Wednesday afternoon, that information can be searched. Those who possess user IDs and passwords (students) can also access their grades and financial status. WebAdvisor can be accessed through the University Home Page by clicking on inside.fdu.edu at the lower left-hand corner. Under Password Resources, a click at Student Webadvisor will find the WebAdvisor’s home page.

FDU Coursefinder (http://fduinfo.com/courses/coursefinder.html), the online version of the printed Graduate Studies Bulletin and Undergraduate Studies Bulletin, includes past and future courses as well as those available in the current semester. It permits searches by course code and title. The description for each course is posted at this site. Coursefinder also allows visitors to use the MyCatalog feature to create a personalized list of up to 60 courses. Approximately 1,000 students and visitors use MyCatalog each year.

Another interesting feature of Coursefinder is the ability to track how often the individual course description pages are requested on the Web. Tracking was started in October 2002 to determine which individual course codes and topics are most often requested. During the last three months of 2002 and January 2003, January was the busiest, with more than 51,000 requests. CORE1006 The Global Challenge received more than 600 requests in January.

In the lower right-hand corner of each Coursefinder course description page, one can find the number of times the specific course was requested, the number of times the average course in that topic was requested and the number of times the average course at the University was requested. For example, ACCT3390 Accounting Information Systems was searched for 23 times in November 2002. The average ACCT course was looked up 32.5 times that month, and the average FDU course was reviewed 14.3 times.

February 2003

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Flor =
College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

Metro =
Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, N.J.

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