Academic advising is an important and timeconsuming task and dgerent tools and techniques can be used to make it an effective and eficient process. This paper describes the design and development of a Web-based advising system that supplements the conventional advising process. The system 's goals include: to minimize repetitive tasks performed by advisors, to encourage students to adopt a proactive attitude towards advising, to make advisingrelated information available to remote students in a single place, in electronic format, and to minimize inconsistencies in the advising process. The system supports three dflerent fypes of users (students, advkors, and secretaria), each of which has dgerent privileges and allowed operations. Student users may use the system to find relevant advisingrelated information, such as course descriptions and advising FAQs. They can also ask the system which course(s) to take next, based on the classes they have already taken.