Student Success Helping Students MAP Their Future Jim

Student Success: Helping Students MAP Their Future Jim Gaston Associate IT Director South Orange County Community College District

Overview • • • Background Project Goals and Process Architecture Demonstration What’s Next? Slides can be found on my blog at: digitaledu. blogspot. com Click on “Recent Presentations”

Background • Two College District in Orange County, CA – Saddleback College, Mission Viejo – Irvine Valley College, Irvine • Approximately 37, 000 students (23, 000 FTES) • Culture of innovation and direct student service in IT

Project Goals • Create a system that provides: – Self-service guide for students to set academic goals – 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 • Discussions began in late 2004, serious development began in Fall 2005

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 1, 258 482 Transfer 2, 892 1, 258 Transfer Total: Associates Certificate Saddleback College 4, 988 8, 261 19, 139 From: 4/27/07 to 3/3/08

Enough Talking… MAP Demonstration

What’s Next? • • Increased integration with registration Expanded help for undecided students Inclusion of private colleges/universities Possible expansion for use by other colleges

Questions? Contact: jgaston@socccd. edu