Computer Science Senior Design Projects are now hosted on Ascent at https://ascent.cysun.org/project/project.

[Obtain Ascent Account]

To manage your project (e.g. edit project description, upload code and documentation and so on), you need to first register an account at https://identity.cysun.org/. After the account is registered, please email me at csun@calstatela.edu so I can add Ascent specific access to your account.

During account registration, the system will send you an email to verify your email address. If you don't get the email after a minute or two, please check your spam folder. If the email is not there either, contact me anyway as I can manually enable your account.

[Edit Project Information]

Log into Ascent and find your project under the Resources -> Projects menu. Click the Edit Project button at the upper right corner of the project page to edit project information such as title and description.

[Manage Project Resources]

Project resources such as code and various documentation are listed in the Resources section on the project page. You may manage these resources by clicking on the Edit Resources button at the upper right corner of the Resources section.

A resource can be either an uploaded file (e.g. an uploaded Software Requirements Document) or a URL (e.g. the URL to a GitHub repository). If a resource is marked as private, it can only be accessed by Ascent users with proper privilege. If your project sponsors do not wish to make certain project information public, you can mark the resources as private.

[Tips and Tricks]

The project description edtior is a so-called Rich Text Editor (or WYSIWYG editor). The editor UI allows you to perform basic formatting of the text. If you want to do additional styling, you can go into the Source Code mode and apply your HTML/CSS knowledge there. In particular, Ascent uses Bootstrap 5 for the styling of the whole site, so you can enhance the look of your project description by using Bootstrap classes (e.g. add the table class to the <table> tags).

Currently the project description editor does not allow uploading or embedding images files. If you want to include images in your project description, you need to host the image files somewhere else. If you want, you can send those image files to me, and I'll host them on Ascent and provide you the URLs you can use for the <img> tags.