BCS Degree Navigator
The BCS Degree Navigator enables students to track their progress through the University of British Columbia’s Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) second degree program. You can find more information about the BCS program here: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/students/undergrad/degree-programs/bcs-program-second-degree.
Unlike students in other programs at the University of British Columbia, whom have access to online tools to help them plan their degrees, students in the BCS program had only a .pdf document with which to track their degree progress and plan for the future. Thus, we created The BCS Degree Navigator, a multi-featured web application intended to make plotting one’s course through the BCS Degree less complicated and more intuitive.
The BCS Degree Navigator, which can be found at https://bcsdn.herokuapp.com/, enables users to create an account, enter and save information about their courses, and view their progress as displayed in progress bars, sortable tables, and a semester-by-semester timeline.
Users can easily see the exact proportion of the degree that they have completed to date by entering information about the courses that they have successfully completed in past semesters. The BCS Degree Navigator conveniently displays a user’s overall progress, as well as progress toward the program’s various components, including core requirements, the bridging module, upper-level electives, and exemption replacements.
In addition, the BCS Degree Navigator helps users to plan future course enrolment by listing all outstanding requirements and enabling users to easily add and delete courses to current and future sessions. The user’s past, present, and future courses are all displayed in an easy-to-understand timeline.