About Artemis

The Artemis Study Hall Tracking System was first developed by Nathan Althoff in 2002 while working as an intern at the University of Utah. He has been the head developer of the system since. It has seen many updates and additions, and continues to evolve into a powerful application that allows academic advisors to better utilize their resources.

Althoff spent his final year in college as an academic intern, after playing basketball for 5 years. His duties included managing the tutors & mentors, working with the athletes as needed and making sure the study hall program was kept in order. Before he took the intern position, the department kept track of the time students spent in study hall on paper, totalling the times by hand and delivering paper copies of weekly reports to coaches as needed. At the time, he was just beginning to learn how to build dynamic websites and software applications, and was given the task of developing a way to keep track of how much time students were spending in study hall and distribute the reports to coaching staff and advisors. In other words, find a way to replace the current 'pen & paper' method with something that would take less time to manage and give the coaches more access to the information collected.

That first version of the study hall tracker was very rough. It had many errors and quirks, but it worked well for 2 full years, with the advisors and coaches being very happy with the system. In the summer of 2004, the system was re-written entirely and Althoff was able to apply new methods of programming and planning to the original concept. This made huge improvements in the stability, accuracy and overall use of the system.

The system received another make-over in the summer of 2005. Updates to each tool to improve to the continuity of the system were made, along with many improvements to different parts of individual tools. These changes increased the ease of use for all users, and added even more functionality to the system as a whole with new tools and reports.

Althoff is currently working on yet another version of the tracker. This time around, the main focus is on improving the user interface of the system. There are also a few new reports being added, along with new options for maintaining the list of athletes in the system. The expected release date of 'Version 4' is the fall of 2011.

The Artemis Study Hall Tracking System is an evolving piece of software that continues to grow and expand as time goes on. Based on both experiences as a student athlete and ideas from current academic advisors, the study hall tracker is an extremely useful addition to all parts of the athletic department.