About Navigate
Navigate NC State, formerly known as Student Success GPS, is a suite of advising tools combining advising services, real-time data, analytics, and reporting to help advisors identify students in need of support and provide early interventions. Provost Warwick Arden invested in this system in 2015 as a commitment towards improving advising services across campus through analytics and workflow functionality critical to advising and student services. These tools advance a proactive advising model at NC State and include the functionality outlined below.
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An advising and tutoring platform that features:
- Advising/tutoring reports and notes to document interactions with students and other relevant information
- Appointment scheduling and appointment campaigns to streamline scheduling with students, including reminder emails and text message to students
- Front desk operations for check-in (including self-service and card swipe) and scheduling
- Progress reporting that allows faculty to provide updates and identify students who may be in need of additional support
- Cases and alerts to provide coordinated care on behalf of a student
- Advising indicator calculated for each student based on NC State student success data
- Powerful search tools that enable proactive identification of students who might be in need of additional support and targeted communications
- A robust feed from NC State’s Student Information System (SIS) that includes academic and demographic information
- Reporting tools to track individual and aggregate advisor/tutor activity
A student interface that features:
- Ability to schedule appointments with advisors, tutors, and other campus support staff
- Shared notes, messages, and appointment reminders
- Mobile app (Navigate Student) featuring course schedule with maps, resources, and tasks need to stay on the path to academic success
An analytics and institution reporting platform that features:
- Aggregate data for key academic administrators based on 10 years of data in each discipline
- Population health dashboards that allow advisors and administrators to identify opportunities to impact targeted student populations and track progress on improving key performance indicators
- Activity dashboards that illustrate advising/tutoring activity and student communications