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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
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My Academic Plan: Helping Students MAP Their Futurewww.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
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
Architecture Overview MAP Application Service Layer Curriculum DB Monthly ETL Student DB MAP DB Project ASSIST
Usage Statistics - Plans Created From: 4/27/07 to 4/15/09
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