1. Facilitating Success: Empowering Online transfer students through the use of canvas
Kimberly Paulus
Director, Student Academic Services
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida, USA

2. DEMOGRAPHICS
-Large metropolitan area-3 counties with a total of 6 million people
-FAU has a total of 5 campuses within the three counties
-Public University with 58 majors from 6 colleges
-31,000 Total Student population
-8,200 students In the College of Business, -6,500 undergraduate
(300 totally online)
-1,700 graduate

3. Online population increasing
Disconnect because students are out of state/aren’t on campus
Students are not researching the College of Business prior to transferring
Gaps in information given to online students
Our way of advising new transfer online students wasn’t working
Online population increasing

4. survey online transfer students 38 responses from spring, summer, fall 2018 transfer students

5. Survey online transfer students 38 responses from spring, summer, fall 2018 transfer students

6. Additional questions on survey
How to make advising appointment
How to utilize Canvas
COB policies and procedures
How to declare a major
How to register for courses
Campus resources available
COB internships and career services available
Only 4 students out of 38 were confident in their abilities in these areas, all others responded neutral or not at all.
Additional questions on survey

7. Canvas course shell goals
Give students everything they need to know for a successful transfer to FAU
Prevent gaps in information they were given during their online transfer orientation
Provide the student with resources for success
Form connection with student through videos and information
Canvas course shell goals

8. OBBA Transfer course -Spring and summer 2019 transfer students

9. Comparison results 2018-38 responses 2019- 31 responses

10. Comparison results 2018-38 responses 2019- 31 responses

11. 2019 survey-Additional questions
How to make advising appointment
How to utilize Canvas
COB policies and procedures
How to declare a major
How to register for courses
Campus resources available
COB internships and career services available
2018: Only 4 students out of 38 were confident in their abilities in these areas, all others responded neutral or not at all.
2019: 26 students out of 31 were confident in their abilities in these areas, 5 students responded neutral.
2019 survey-Additional questions

12. Florida Atlantic University
Questions?