1. USING D2L for ADVISING APPOINTMENTS
Rachel Hall and Patti Williamson
Pre-major Advising Center
Loretta Estes and Tabitha Greear
Waldron College of Health and Human Services
Shannon Porter
College of Business and Economics
You will hear how D2L is used as an advising supplement in 3 different colleges
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2. Goals of Presentation Encourage use of D2L for advising
Discuss advantages for advising
Provide handouts and information for your own D2L modules
Techniques that can be implemented immediately
ideas about how to get their students to reflect on content before coming into appointments
encouraging self-sufficiency.
Time for questions at the end
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3. Advantages to Utilizing D2L
Students are better prepared
Information source is always available
More time for developmental advising
STUDENTS:
Are familiar with D2L Shells
Advising as teaching.
responsible for reviewing their own requirements before making an advising appointment
Student reflection is important
advising information is more useful
ADVISORS:
developmental versus prescriptive advising
advisors review student input before appointment
springboard for discussions: more meaningful, intentional conversations
Less frustrating
less chance of advising errors
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4. Pre-major Advising Center
Started using D2L to provide advising information to UNIV100 classes
Why not use D2L as an advising supplement for all of our advisees?
While in D2L training (D2L was new Fall 2011) we had an epiphany
D2L could take care of many of our needs
NOT ENOUGH TIME in our advising appointments!
Needed a way to cover more information than a 30 minute appointment could accomplish: Our time needed to be more effective and efficient.
Transition issues
Taking them the process of choosing a major – unique to them
Academic success to include mid-term grades and withdrawing from classes
Policies and procedures that affected them personally – such as SQ and P policies, and criteria to declare majors
Academic and recovery plans
Students could not process all of the information we were verbally providing and not returning for follow-up appointments with the written information
Students needed to complete the FOCUS2 Career Assessment prior to their appointment.
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5. Pre-major Advising Center
Common set of learning outcomes
Utilizing the advising syllabus
Understanding Degree Audit
Processing FOCUS2 career assessment
Knowledge of majors and careers
Academic success
Involvement on and off campus
Course registration and academic planning
To make sure our advising modules have consistency we agree on a common set of learning outcomes in the spring for the next fall
We then use our own advising style to create the modules in each of our shells.
Our advisees are on a spread sheet at the beginning of the fall that is downloaded into the D2L class list by Lisa McDaniel’s office.
As we each receive new advisees we add them to our class list. About once a month I compare my class list to my advisee list and delete the ones that are no longer my advisee.
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6. Pre-major Advising Center
Fall
Spring
Patti will talk about Fall and Rachel will discuss spring module examples.
D2L module examples
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7. Pre-major Advising Center
Future Plans
More emphasis on policies and procedures
Update and change content
Use other D2L technologies
Assessment
Realizing we can’t repeat and put policies such as suspension in too many places.
Use of D2L technologies such as intelligent agents.
Include on our advising assessment
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8. Waldron College Advising Center
Results:
Most students completed the module and reported it was helpful to them.
They came to their appointment prepared and less anxious.
They prepared a list of proposed classes and most had questions listed.
Very positive results as reported by students and advisors.
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9. Waldron College Advising Center
Possibilities for the Future:
Create a college-specific module for pre-Orientation advising
Create modules based on major within Waldron
Create a module for students on probation
Create a module for new transfer students
If group advising is used, the modules will be even more important.
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10. College of Business and Economics
Math skills assessment for Quest students
Pre-advising FOCUS2 course for undecided business students
Future D2L Uses:
College-specific module for Pre-Orientation advising
FOCUS2 course required for all new COBE students
Started using D2L for math skills assessment summer 2015
(Pre-Calc/MATH 125 skills assessment)
address DWF rate of MATH 126
not required but “highly encouraged” for students to pass pre-calculus or this assessment before taking MATH 126
had to enroll through COBE Advising Center
RESULTS: few students challenged their math placement by their advisor, those that did were not successful in completing the pre-calculus skills assessment
*Caught students who would otherwise have received a DWF in MATH 126
replaced with current/new pre-req
Haven’t reevaluated DWF rate of MATH likely to do so after spring grades to gauge effectiveness of “math placement strategy”
FOCUS 2 course developed for implementation fall 2016
focus 2 required for PBUS since fall 2014
required before being able to schedule advising appointment
PURPOSE: to increase students self-understanding of skills, interests, and personality to promote good major choice
*the sooner a student is connected with their major the sooner they find purpose and motivation in their course work
*most COBE curriculums incorporate freshman/sophomore level courses and/or are fall/spring sequenced, so a late major declaration can put students behind in their course work
this course will insert more flexibility into students ability to complete requirements in a timely manner
Reduces responsibility from semester-long oversight of all GAs in office to oversight by one GA
frees up GAs for more office-related projects
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11. Not going over the same information student over and over
ADVISORS:
more engaged
Not going over the same information student over and over
Can’t express enough the retention related outcome of more meaningful and intentional conversations
STUDENTS:
Greater academic awareness and self-advocacy.
Students don’t have to keep up with as many advising papers and folders
We hope you too will find success in using D2L for an aspect of your advising.
Creating a D2L pre-orientation module for all incoming new students signed up for Quest
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12. Utilizing D2L as an advising supplement
Decide on your Content – What are YOUR needs?
advising syllabus
Degree Audit
FOCUS2 Career Assessment
introduction to majors
academic success
engagement
careers
course registration
academic planning
skills assessment
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13. Discussion, Questions and Comments
What do you think some of the pros and cons would be to utilizing D2L as an advising preparation for your students?
With what technology initiatives are you finding successful?
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14. for your interest and attending our session today!
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