This paper describes the intelligent advisor system, named CODAMA, used in teaching a university-level systems analysis and design course. The paper discusses: (1) the use of CODAMA to assist students to transfer theoretical knowledge to the practical; (2) details of how CODAMA is applied in conjunction with a computer-aided software engineering tool to produce an Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD); (3) use of the system's concept network and advance organizer; (4) CODAMA's knowledge acquisition module, which allows the recording of real ERDs; and (5) a summary of CODAMA's visual elements, including ERDs, underlining, and concept hierarchy displays. Seven figures, five of which are computer displays, illustrate the text. (KRN)