Hobsons – Your Higher Education Partner Kylie Litten, Senior Account Manager Brian Mikesell, Vice President of Market Engagement

Today’s Conversation Degree Planner Demo Summary and Questions Degree Planner in Starfish Introductions

College and Career Readiness Admissions and Enrollment Student Success and Advising

Early alert Connect Analytics Degree Planner

Hobsons Account Overview Partner since 2010 Products: o High School Marketing: Naviance o Admissions CRM: Hobsons Radius o Advising: Starfish Early Alert & Starfish Connect Columbus State Community College The Starfish platform has helped improve successful course completion at Columbus State by 4.2 percentage points since Among lower income students who are often more academically at-risk, the improvement was 5.7 percentage points. Today, 85 percent of faculty, nearly 94 percent of all Columbus State students, and all advisors interact with the Starfish platform in some way. “We are proud of how students, faculty, staff and administration have joined together to embrace the Starfish system and use it as the primary tool for providing wrap-around services to our students,” -Dr. Jack Cooley, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs.

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Goals Students Make more informed decisions Understand the impact of decisions Keep goal in sight Advisors: More informed advising More time to advise Columbus State Better forecasting and planning Better able to predict student course demand

Areas of Interest 4-yr degree map support (2+2 A.A/A.S.) Course and Change Major recommendations Dynamic degree maps based on student attributes and availability Certificate completion (badging) Real-time progress indicators toward completion Enterprise system integration Meta-majors ADA Advisor workflow and approval Course Registration Starfish Early Alert Integration

Our Characters Rachel Lands 23 yr old Graduated Upper Arlington High School (HS GPA: 2.9, ACT=19) Career: Detective / Criminal Investigator Associates: Criminal Justice Yasmin Gold Academic Advisor Advisee load: 293

I took classes I didn’t need! I can’t ever get time with my advisor! I’ll just drop this course and worry about the impact later! I changed my major – now major problems! Finish? No idea! Course was full or not available! Rachel Lands I’m transferring. What counts?

11 60 credit hours 78 credit hours 90 credit hours Needed Achieved Attempted The real cost of college. content/uploads/2014/06/Real-Cost-of-College_Full-Report_CCC-1.pdf Excessive Credits 80% of students are changing majors 1 or more times

12 Recipe 1.Existing credits 2.Placement test results 3.Course waivers 4.Program of study 5.Classes offered 6.Order of classes 7.Rachel’s availability 8.Online courses? Recipe 1.Existing credits 2.Placement test results 3.Course waivers 4.Program of study 5.Classes offered 6.Order of classes 7.Rachel’s availability 8.Online courses?

Hot off the press… PAR is now a part of Hobsons Deliver Market Leading Products Increase Expertise Help Students Succeed Scale student retention support Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework is a national non-profit membership collaborative Provides actionable student success analytics-as-a service 350 campuses, 2.3m students, 24m courses Predictive, descriptive and student success scores

Common Data Definitions Analytics Community Driving scalable improvements in institutional effectiveness and student success Benchmarking

PAR Course Explorer Course Explorer Obstacle Courses Course Pass, Withdraw Retention, Repeat Rates Program & Course Comparisons

Obstacle courses and pathway risks… Identify: Course Explorer

Obstacle courses and pathway risks… Identify: Course Explorer Identify

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Areas of Interest Course and Change Major recommendations Major – complete. Course – PAR Course Explorer Integration Enterprise system integration Google/outlook, SSO, Starfish Universal AdapterStarfish Universal Adapter ADA WCAG 2.0 AA Course Registration: Simple webservices/APIs to send course/section/schedule info to the registration system or vice versa Starfish Early Alert Integration Starfish Search: Have Plan? Plan Status % Toward Completion

The back end… Architecture SIS Server Data Files (e.g. Users) SIS Application/Database Student Data Faculty Staff Data Extract Programs (Scheduled or on demand) Temp Directory SIS data file (directory) Starfish SIS Adapter Learning Management System Student Data Starfish LMS Adapter Cloud Backed –up Data Determine Changes File Move ( Scheduled ) Data Files (e.g. Orgs) Data Files (e.g. Sections)

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