A chatbot for Academic advising

Abstract

Academic advising is a crucial and challenging task at the beginning of each term. It remains a manual process in Saudi universities, that needs to be automated. Our solution consists of a chatbot as a digital academic advisor helping students make logical decisions based on analyzing data like what course must be essential or have more required courses, and answer the common questions. This chatbot is knowledge-based and is always available, students can use it to plan the semester courses, as well. It collects the data and develops them to build better decisions.