The project
Updated August 2026
About this project
Qumpanion is an independent, student-built toolkit for Qatar University: an assistant that answers from QU’s own published pages with citations, plus a degree audit, a GPA calculator and a schedule builder.
Why it exists
The information a QU student needs is all public, but it’s spread across Banner, a dozen SharePoint pages, PDF study plans and the academic calendar. Answering “when does add/drop close?” or “what’s left in my plan?” means opening five tabs and reading carefully.
This project pulls that material into one place and answers questions from it directly. It doesn’t replace Banner or the Registrar; it saves you the tab-hunting, and it always shows you the page it got the answer from so you can check.
What you can do with it
Ask about courses, prerequisites, deadlines, scholarships or library bookings and get an answer with the QU page it came from. Upload your transcript once and the degree audit shows what’s left in your plan, term by term, on a roadmap you can rearrange. The GPA calculator covers term, cumulative, target and what-if in one place. The schedule builder reads live sections from Banner and generates clash-free timetables you can save, tag and share.
All 53 undergraduate programs are mapped term by term, so the audit works whatever you study. The assistant, GPA calculator and schedule builder don’t depend on your major at all.
What’s live, and what isn’t
The assistant, GPA calculator, degree audit and schedule builder are live. A campus map and a personalised news/alerts feed are on the way, and are labelled “Coming soon” everywhere they appear.
Answers come from Qatar University’s published pages and live Banner data, and every factual answer links its source so you can check it. It is still an unofficial tool: for anything that decides your semester — registration, grades, graduation — confirm it in Banner or with the relevant office.
Who built it
One QU student, as a personal project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Qatar University, and it carries no QU branding or trademark.
If something is wrong (a stale deadline, a mis-parsed prerequisite, a plan that doesn’t match your PDF), the fastest fix is to say so: use the thumbs down under the answer itself, or email ud2317922@qu.edu.qa.