My Academic Plan:

Helping Students MAP Their Future

www.socccd.edu/map

Jim Gaston, Associate IT Director

South Orange County Community College District

Overview

• Background• Project Goals and Process• Architecture• What’s Next?• Demonstration

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

3

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

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

A True Team Effort

The Old Way…

Architecture Overview

MAP Application

Student DB

MAP DB

Curriculum DB

Project ASSIST

Monthly ETL

Service Layer

Usage Statistics - Plans Created

From: 4/27/07 to 4/15/09

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

What’s 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

Enough Talking…

MAP Demonstration

Questions?

Please feel free to contact us:

jgaston@socccd.edu

For more information:

www.socccd.edu/map