About

My name is William Kaiser, and I am a second-year Computer Science Student at the University of Virginia. I have some medicore javascript skills and got inspired by UVA's SIS API Published by Prof. Mark Sherriff for CS 3130 (opens in a new tab).

How it works?

As many a UVA student will know, the Student Information System (SIS) sucks. As you can imagine, SIS's internal API is cut from the same cloth.

For this reason, I had to supplement this with a UVA Developer API I found.

The separation of concerns is:

• SIS API (opens in a new tab) only gets the number of credit hours
• UVA Developer API (opens in a new tab) fetches a list of courses

Google Sheets Connector

Like all good things, it starts with a fetch call. However, to be a Google Sheet's extension, a Google Apps Script (opens in a new tab) handles each function call.

As SIS does not allow external requests, a Firestore database caches credit information, something I have to manually update each semester.

Future Plans?

This was my first attempt at building a tool for the UVA community. However, someone is surely going to have some seemingly obvious idea for future expansion that I simply missed. Please tell me! Shoot me an email, submit a feature request on GitHub.

if you_have_ideas:
    email_me() || submit_feature_request()