1. My Academic Plan: Helping Students MAP Their Future
Jim Gaston
Associate IT Director
South Orange County
Community College District

2. Overview
Background
Project Goals
Process
Architecture
Demonstration

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4. Two College District in Orange County, CA
Background
Two College District in Orange County, CA
Saddleback College, Mission Viejo
Irvine Valley College, Irvine
Approximately 35,000 students (21,000 FTES)
Culture of innovation and direct student service in IT

5. 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

6. 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

7. The Old Way…

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

9. Contact: jgaston@socccd.org
Enough Talking…
Demonstration
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