Students are the core of every institution of learning. 2

Successfully managing student lifecycles – from recruiting the right students to seeing them through as alumnus – is key to great learning outcomes. 3

4 Do you, your staff, teachers and other educational influencers have all the analytical tools they need to get those results? Do you have the meaningful and actionable data to make smart decisions that elevate your institution’s performance? Are your enrollment efforts identifying the best student for your institution? Are you seizing on all the opportunities to help create the best results for current student and alumni success? Are you taking advantage of the latest technology?

The Microsoft platforms can open up new possibilities to help your institutions attract the best students, create optimum student outcomes - on both learning and career paths - and elevate your institutional performance.

Student Recruitment & Enrollment 6

The goal is to attract the right students and effectively manage the admissions and enrollment process so you don’t miss a prospective student.

Recrui t Retai n Enroll Higher education institutions must adapt to the modern student journey.

That journey is dominated by mobility and social media, and the onus is on institutions to attract these students during this new mobile age. Institutions must embrace social media and mobility to effectively attract and engage students.

We can help you understand what students are saying Campaign Monitoring Measure the effectiveness of the universities marketing campaigns in real time. Brand sentiment analysis Gain insight and learn what students, alums, and parents really think and feel about your university across the globe. Competitive Intelligence See how you measure up against other institutions. Identify differentiators, strengths, and weaknesses.

We can help you with your student interactions Visit School Website Request School Information Request a Campus Visit Submit an Application for Enrollment

And help manage everything using CRM

Read More Situation: Modern education happens in the classroom, online, and in blended environments. These expanded formats created a new level of complexity for students and educators at Grand Canyon University. Solution: Utilizing Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the University was able to modernize, allowing them to anticipate and fulfil student needs. Grand Canyon University

14 Education Analytics

So, once you have the best students, how do you help them succeed?

16 Imagine if you could… Proactively identify students needing additional support Provide students the means to effectively plan, connect, collaborate, research, and gain insight from others Resolve critical education challenges faced in your schools using data

The goal is to use the power of analytics to empower student success. Freshman to Senior Year GraduationDedicated Alumnus

Students get feedback on their pattern of performance in learning systems What are the advantages of education analytics? Instructors get detailed reports on all students, as well as relative effectiveness of lessons and content, freeing them from low- order assessments to focus on more complex feedback Content Designers and Curriculum Managers get data on content usage and relationships between content and learning School Leaders get student progress data, teacher effectiveness data, and school level outcomes. School System Leaders get data across campuses year to year

Cortana Power BI Azure Machine Learning Azure HDInsight (Hadoop) Azure Stream Analytics

Read More Situation: A 2007 national study dubbed the 30,000-student Tacoma Public School district’s five high schools “dropout factories,” where many freshmen never made it to graduation. Solution: Using cloud analytics, the school began predicting student dropout risks. Graduation rates jumped from 55 to 82.6% by 2016 & today the district is recognized nationally for its educational achievements. Tacoma Public Schools

21 Institutional Performance

Building on education analytics institutional performance takes greater systemic information to help improve the institution today and tomorrow and help with accreditation. 22

Institutional Performance is a solution that consolidates multiple streams of data, and ties aggregated data to your strategic plan and designated metrics, all in real time. 23

This results in five key capabilities… 24

You can match your institution’s objectives to both individual and departmental performance. That’s done by: Tracking and measuring activities in real time Continually assessing progress Fostering a high-performance culture 25

You can get an integrated view that gives context to data. That’s done with: A simple dashboard tool Views of integrated data streams 26

You can ensure your data is real-time and current. That’s done with: Continuous data flows Data origination from multiple sources Real-time views 27

You can make the best possible decisions. That’s done with: Understandable and actionable data An honest and complete view of institutional performance Data that helps determine if changes are needed to better align with programs and goals 28

You can foster a high-performance culture. That’s done with: A result-oriented solution that’s data-driven Matching data to strategic objectives on many levels Performance snapshots that your team can use to plan, measure, analyze and adjust programs 29

Read More Situation: Data management at any educational institution requires discipline, collaboration, and precision. Northwood is on a continual journey to enhance its use of reporting and data analytics tools. Solution: To help enrich data gathering and analysis in a strategic, institution-wide manner, Northwood University recently implemented Ellucian Perform – a comprehensive software system for end-to-end performance management. Northwood University

31 Why Microsoft?

We provide the technology that can help you successfully manage student lifecycles and performance. This can have a significant impact in three vital areas for your institution: 1.Student recruitment & enrollment 2.Education analytics 3.Institutional performance 32

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