My Academic Plan Helping Students MAP Their Future

My Academic Plan: Helping Students MAP Their Future www. socccd. edu/map Jim Gaston, Associate IT Director South Orange County Community College District

Overview • • • Background Project Goals and Process Architecture What’s Next? Demonstration

Background • About the SOCCCD – Two college district in southern California – Approximately 40, 000 students • Two Colleges, Three Campuses – Saddleback College in Mission Viejo – Irvine Valley College in Irvine – Advanced Technology and Education Park (ATEP) in Tustin 3

MAP Project Goals • Create a system that provides: – Self-service guide for students to develop academic plans – Tracking system for counselors and students to monitor progress toward those goals – Automated assistance for students to select classes that help achieve the goals • • Use flexible architecture Enable future integration with registration

Process • Design Team Creation – Counselors – Students – Articulation Staff • Iterative prototypes • Timeline – Discussions began in late 2004 – Serious development began in Fall 2005 – MAP went online on April 27, 2007

A True Team Effort

The Old Way…

Architecture Overview MAP Application Service Layer Curriculum DB Monthly ETL Student DB MAP DB Project ASSIST

Usage Statistics - Plans Created Irvine Valley College Associates Certificate Transfer Saddleback College 2, 646 6 3 Associates 6, 457 Certificate 2, 861 Transfer Total: 17, 534 41, 737 From: 4/27/07 to 4/15/09 1, 06 11, 17

What’s Next? • Ideas – Increased integration with registration – Expanded help for undecided students – Inclusion of private colleges/universities • Possible expansion for use by other colleges – State funded feasibility study – Seeking pilot institutions now

Enough Talking… MAP Demonstration

Questions? Please feel free to contact us: jgaston@socccd. edu For more information: www. socccd. edu/map