Creating and Utilizing an Online Academic Advising Manual

1. Creating and Utilizing an Online Academic Advising Manual Zach Perrine, Academic Advisor Pulaski Technical College North Little Rock, AR

2. Welcome!

3. Purpose • Create a document that can change and grow • Design • Keep content organized and relevant • Use • Give all advisors access to this resource

4. Pulaski Tech at a Glance • Spring 2012 Numbers • 11,876 Enrolled • 50% Full Time • 50% Part Time • 1000% Enrollment Increase since 1991 • Largest two-year college in Arkansas • Fifth largest public higher education institute in state

5. Pulaski Tech at a Glance • Degree Types: • 29% Occupational/Technical Education • 71% General Education • Demographics • 34% Male • 66% Female • Average Age: 30 • 41% White • 54% African American • 3% Hispanic or Latino • 2% Other

6. Structure of Advising on Campus • Seven PTC locations • Professional Advisors at three locations • Main • 4 Full-Time Advisors • 1 Part-Time Technical Advisor • Coordinator • South • 1 Full-Time Advisor • 1 Part-Time Technical Advisor • West • 1 Part-Time Advisor

7. Structure of Advising on Campus • After New Student Orientation or Transfer Registration, Advising is not Mandatory • Variety of Departmental Advising • 90+ degree and certificate programs: • Allied Health • Culinary Arts • Computer Information Systems • Early Childhood Education • Technical & Industrial

8. Structure of Advising on Campus • Professional Advisors work with First Year Orientation class (College Seminar) • Advising Center Student Outreach • PTC Faculty are not required to advise • Specific Faculty do advise certain programs • Advising Center has part time staff during Registration periods

9. Why Go Online? • Pulaski Tech is growing • Faculty and Staff need to be on the same page • Information is constantly changing • Keeping track of new rules

10. Reasons for Blackboard • System • Familiar to PTC • Cost • Paying for product • Maintenance • Support from Distance Learning

11. Tour of Manual • Follow along with link on handout* • Username: jdean • Password: Letmein123 • Click on ADVS0101 Sec. 01 *https://bb-pulaskitech.blackboard.com/webapps/login

12. Home Page

13. Modules

14. Module 1: About PTC

15. Module 2: Advising Basics

16. Link to Youtube Video

17. Module 3: Registration

18. Module 4: Processes & Procedures

19. Link to ACTS

20. Link to NACADA

21. PTC Catalog Revisions

22. Specific Department Module

23. Specific Department Module

24. Quick Resource

25. Transfer Advising

26. Glossary

27. Wikis

28. Successes • Advising Information in one place • Standardized concepts • Ability to share with other faculty/staff • Ease of updating • Other departments using manual • Have used with new advisors • Newest Full Time Advisor

29. Challenges • It’s still new! • Better utilize tool for training • Departmental support could improve • Multimedia Aspects need to grow • Have to educate faculty/staff on Blackboard

30. Discussion • Does your campus have a similar resource? • Has your department used a similar tool? • What ideas could you use? • What other ideas would you like to see?

31. Questions?

32. Contact • Zach Perrine, Academic Advisor • zperrine@pulaskitech.edu • 501.812.2762