Educause 2006 - My Academic Plan
Educause 2006
Dallas, Texas
MAP – My Academic Plan
Jim Gaston
South Orange Community College District (includes Saddleback College in Mission Viejo and Irvine Valley College = 35,000 students)
Jim is the Associate Director of Information Technology and they were charged with coming up with an electronic version of the individual students progress to meet GE requirements. (His blog is at http://digitaledu.blogspot.com/.)
They were asked to provide something to help students set goals, that could be reviewed and tracked by a counselor, and can provide automated assistance to help them select classes.
Team included: Counselors, students (paid $10 per hour) and articulation staff.
They made an interactive prototype – and had lots of feedback . . . back to the drawing board. He wishes he got the prototype to THE HANDS OF THE USERS EARLIER!
They used scrum methodology http://www.controlchaos.com/.
They used .net for testing and accessibility http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx
They used ATLAS (Microsoft) for programming
They used a service layer between MAP and the Student Information System, Curriculum requirements, and information from Project Assist (http://www.assist.org/web-assist/welcome.html) which is a site for California articulation – they created a data feed for this, done on a monthly basis (that is how often the site is updated).
They ask questions (like the csumathsuccess roadmap): Where do you want to transfer? CSU, UC, Both, Out of State, I’m not sure. Answers prompt you to select your college, and your major – from dropdown menus – again, feeding from the Assist database.
Notes:
1)Information is personalized for each student.
2)Cross-checks via XML Transcripts of students.
3)Displays “select your courses” – general ed, and major prep (links to Assist, and just shows articulation agreement which keeps it all legal).
4)General Ed expands out to show: potential, in progress, and planned. They had many discussions with how this report should look, and the counselors won – it looks just like the paper one they’ve been using for years.
5)This is NOT a degree audit system. It will audit prereqs, and add courses required to plan – will also add co-reqs (like biology and a biology lab)
6)Allows you to plan when you’ll take the classes.
7)They would like to have the classes to be moved from ‘required’ to ‘planned’ be drag and drop, and use AJAX for some, but ATLAS doesn’t support drag and drop on Safari)
8)They would like to allow counselors to link equivalence – such as DVC history 167 = DeAnza History 153 – manual input once!
9)Paper transcripts are or will be possible using XML.
10)Centralize all transcripts in XAP?
He would be a good contact if we are involved in the interface development.
Dallas, Texas
MAP – My Academic Plan
Jim Gaston
South Orange Community College District (includes Saddleback College in Mission Viejo and Irvine Valley College = 35,000 students)
Jim is the Associate Director of Information Technology and they were charged with coming up with an electronic version of the individual students progress to meet GE requirements. (His blog is at http://digitaledu.blogspot.com/.)
They were asked to provide something to help students set goals, that could be reviewed and tracked by a counselor, and can provide automated assistance to help them select classes.
Team included: Counselors, students (paid $10 per hour) and articulation staff.
They made an interactive prototype – and had lots of feedback . . . back to the drawing board. He wishes he got the prototype to THE HANDS OF THE USERS EARLIER!
They used scrum methodology http://www.controlchaos.com/.
They used .net for testing and accessibility http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx
They used ATLAS (Microsoft) for programming
They used a service layer between MAP and the Student Information System, Curriculum requirements, and information from Project Assist (http://www.assist.org/web-assist/welcome.html) which is a site for California articulation – they created a data feed for this, done on a monthly basis (that is how often the site is updated).
They ask questions (like the csumathsuccess roadmap): Where do you want to transfer? CSU, UC, Both, Out of State, I’m not sure. Answers prompt you to select your college, and your major – from dropdown menus – again, feeding from the Assist database.
Notes:
1)Information is personalized for each student.
2)Cross-checks via XML Transcripts of students.
3)Displays “select your courses” – general ed, and major prep (links to Assist, and just shows articulation agreement which keeps it all legal).
4)General Ed expands out to show: potential, in progress, and planned. They had many discussions with how this report should look, and the counselors won – it looks just like the paper one they’ve been using for years.
5)This is NOT a degree audit system. It will audit prereqs, and add courses required to plan – will also add co-reqs (like biology and a biology lab)
6)Allows you to plan when you’ll take the classes.
7)They would like to have the classes to be moved from ‘required’ to ‘planned’ be drag and drop, and use AJAX for some, but ATLAS doesn’t support drag and drop on Safari)
8)They would like to allow counselors to link equivalence – such as DVC history 167 = DeAnza History 153 – manual input once!
9)Paper transcripts are or will be possible using XML.
10)Centralize all transcripts in XAP?
He would be a good contact if we are involved in the interface development.
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