1. Student Success: Helping Students MAP Their Future
Jim Gaston
Associate IT Director
South Orange County
Community College District

2. Project Goals and Process Architecture Demonstration
Overview
Background
Project Goals and Process
Architecture
Demonstration
What’s Next? Slides can be found on my blog at:
digitaledu.blogspot.com
Click on “Recent Presentations”

3. Background Two College District in Orange County, CA
Saddleback College, Mission Viejo
Irvine Valley College, Irvine
Approximately 37,000 students (23,000 FTES)
Culture of innovation and direct student service in IT

4. Create a system that provides:
Project Goals
Create a system that provides:
Self-service guide for students to set academic goals
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

5. Discussions began in late 2004, serious development began in Fall 2005
Process
Design Team Creation
Counselors
Students
Articulation Staff
Iterative prototypes
Discussions began in late 2004, serious development began in Fall 2005

6. A True Team Effort

7. The Old Way…

8. Architecture Overview
MAP Application
Service Layer
Curriculum DB
Monthly ETL
Student DB
MAP DB
Project ASSIST

9. Usage Statistics - Plans Created
Irvine Valley College
Associates
1,258
Certificate
482
Transfer
4,988
Saddleback College
2,892
8,261
Total:
19,139
From: 4/27/07 to 3/3/08

10. Enough Talking…
MAP Demonstration

11. What’s Next? Increased integration with registration
Expanded help for undecided students
Inclusion of private colleges/universities
Possible expansion for use by other colleges

12. Contact: jgaston@socccd.edu
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