This project has been discontinued.

• Supports several types of users: Student (i.e. visitors), writing Advisor, Teacher, Department Head, and Administrator.  A student can create an account to keep track of their appointments to the writing center as well as feedback they received during each meeting with a writing advisor.  Also, a student can provide the administrator feedback (via a form) on a meeting session and/or a writing advisor.  Writing Advisors can keep track of their meetings with students and write private commentaries (that is only visible to an administrator) following a meeting.  Teachers can view appointments of students from their own classes and look at statistics for students' goals when visiting the center.  Department Heads can do the same while viewing appointments for their entire department.  Administrators have control over all aspects of the system including schedule, goal template, and department/class creation.  They also have access to all statistics and can e-mail stats to any faculty member directly from the UI.
• Manages schedules detailing the center's availability.  The schedule feature also lists the sessions and days during which a writing advisor is to be present.  Based on this information, advisors will be required to report attendance via a button from their account on the appropriate days.
• Manages goal templates with pre-defined goal categories.  This allows the students to narrow their goals and decide exactly on what they seek to accomplish at the writing center.

• PHP 5+
• MySQL Server 4 or 5

• DB_DataObject*
• DB (required by DB_DataObject)
• MDB2
• MDB2_Driver_mysql

1. Extract the echelon-<VERSION>.tar.gz archive to somewhere inside the document root on the web server.  You may rename the echelon-<VERSION> directory (henceforth referred to as ECHELON_ROOT) to something else before proceeding to the next step. 
2. Open ECHELON_ROOT/include/DO_config.ini.php in a text editor and modify the appropriate values in the "User Customization Section".  Save the file and close it.
3. Point your browser to <Server Address>/path_to_ECHELON_ROOT/install/
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Echelon setup.
5. After the installation is complete, IMMEDIATELY delete the 'ECHELON_ROOT/install' directory.

1. Create at least one goal template.
2. Create Departments and assign default goal templates to them.
3. Create at least one schedule.
4. Go to the "Configure" page, set the "Current Schedule:" field to one of the schedules, and save configurations.

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