My Academic Plan: Helping Students MAP Their Future www.socccd.edu/map

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My Academic Plan Helping Students MAP Their
Futurewww.socccd.edu/map

• Jim Gaston, Associate IT Director
• South Orange County Community College District

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Overview

• Background
• Project Goals and Process
• Architecture
• Whats Next?
• Demonstration

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Background

• About the SOCCCD
• Two college district in southern California
• Approximately 40,000 students
• Two Colleges, Three Campuses
• Saddleback College in Mission Viejo
• Irvine Valley College in Irvine
• Advanced Technology and Education Park (ATEP) in
  Tustin

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MAP Project Goals

• Create a system that provides
• Self-service guide for students to develop
  academic plans
• 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

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Process

• Design Team Creation
• Counselors
• Students
• Articulation Staff
• Iterative prototypes
• Timeline
• Discussions began in late 2004
• Serious development began in Fall 2005
• MAP went online on April 27, 2007

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A True Team Effort
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The Old Way
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Architecture Overview
MAP Application
Service Layer
Curriculum DB
Monthly ETL
Student DB
MAP DB
Project ASSIST
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Usage Statistics - Plans Created
Irvine Valley College Associates 2,646
Certificate 1,066
Transfer 11,173

Saddleback College Associates 6,457
Certificate 2,861
Transfer 17,534

Total 41,737
From 4/27/07 to 4/15/09
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Whats Next?

• Ideas
• Increased integration with registration
• Expanded help for undecided students
• Inclusion of private colleges/universities
• Possible expansion for use by other colleges
• State funded feasibility study
• Seeking pilot institutions now

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Enough Talking

• MAP Demonstration

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Questions?
Please feel free to contact us jgaston_at_socccd.edu
For more information www.socccd.edu/map